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Gonna give this another go! My ethernet is same or slower speed than my old wireless. Except for EA's Origin client?

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  • Wireless
  • Networking
  • Ethernet Card
September 29, 2014 1:02:48 PM

Reposting in hopes that someone can guide me even just a bit this time!

I just finished building a new PC about a week ago, and at the same time took the plunge to get Ethernet, "upgrading" from wireless. My only issue is that my speeds are the same, or slower than Wireless, except for, of all things, Origin most of the time, but there are other times where even Origin falls to my regular 700 KB/s speeds. I installed an 800 MB Titanfall update at a whopping 20 MB/s once, finished it in a few seconds.I installed the game itself at an average 4-5 MB/s. But everything else? 700 KB/s. I even paused the Titanfall update and main installation at the same time and switched over to see what Steam's speeds would be like, and they were were the same old 700 KB/s.

My cable is an Insignia Cat5. I downloaded my Motherboard drivers and everything from the disc, which were (or as I was told) supposed to come with the proper Ethernet cable drivers. Even then, without drivers for it, Origin shouldn't be pulling these speeds, so there's definitely something else wrong I think. I tried repairing the RealTek Ethernet Controller Driver twice, but to no avail (if that's even what I'm supposed to be installing), and when I try to use DriverTuner as suggested by the RealTek site I get an "Invalid Data Received" error when scanning. I also tried reinstalling drivers from MSI's site (MSI B85-G41 PC Mate MOBO), with no change.

My modem/router is a, what looks to be, a Bell 2Wire 2701 if that helps. I've tried fiddling with both the router settings, and couldn't find anything, and the Ethernet connection settings on the PC itself, with no result. I'm fairly tech savvy, but I've never had to do anything with networking before so I'm pretty stumped.


Would greatly appreciate the help, I've tried a few other places and received no response, thank you kindly. If there's anything I'm missing that's necessary please let me know, I'll do my best to find anything else out, and I apologize if I didn't format something correctly as it's my first time posting here.

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