Extremely slow ethernet connection

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I have just built a new gaming PC without a network card. I have connected it to my bell 2wire modem and the speeds are very slow. For the first minute or so that I was connected to the internet, I was downloading a steam game at 700 kb/s which is what I would get on my laptop when connected to wi-fi, immediately after, I was getting around 170 kb/s. The ethernet and internet lights on the modem are constantly flickering. After calling bell, we determined that there was nothing wrong with the bell signal because my wifi-connected laptop had much better results in a speed test than my wire-connected desktop. I thought that ethernet was supposed to be much faster than wireless connections. What gives? I think it may be an issue with my desktop. I currently have google chrome, steam, killer network driver (from asus motherboard), and a driver for my gaming mouse. Is there I anything I can do that would increase the speed? Because I am sure that it is an issue on my end.

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Drivers your first choice is asus and then qualcomm who makes killer drivers and then you might get intel drivers to work it depends a lot on boards. The ones from asus are pretty easy you put in your board number and download. You chase other ones and you are going to have to dig based on the chipsets. Pretty much this is asus problem. They have good customer support and is your best bet.
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bill001g

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The killer network drivers have massive number of people complaining about them. They try to make things run faster and they actually make things run slower. Mostly this is due to bugs it is suggested. You may want to go look for newer drivers either from the mother board manufacture or from killer themselves. There is suppose to be a non killer based driver that will work with most network chipsets.

After fighting a friends machine that had killer drivers I run as fast as I can from any product that has their stuff in it.
 
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bill001g

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Drivers your first choice is asus and then qualcomm who makes killer drivers and then you might get intel drivers to work it depends a lot on boards. The ones from asus are pretty easy you put in your board number and download. You chase other ones and you are going to have to dig based on the chipsets. Pretty much this is asus problem. They have good customer support and is your best bet.
 
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