I recently finished my PC and bought a Panda PAU06 wifi adapter so that I could connect to my home router. When the adapter is plugged in, the internet connection is very slow ( 0.02 Mbps down). Interestingly enough, it slows down the connection of every single other device in my house without exception. But that's only when it's plugged into my pc. When it's in my brother's PC, it runs just fine with regular speed and doesn't slow anything else down. I attempted to plug my pc into the router using an ethernet cable and it was still extremely slow. Is the problem my motherboard? It's an ASrock h61? and I have windows 10 64bit.
PC hogging bandwidth but still has extremely slow connection
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Shaun o
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Go to the Adapters settings in windows and see what.
Band the dongle has set its self to.
If you can change the speed setting and the duplex mode of the usb device.
Login to the wireless router you have and see what it is also set in in relation to the network type being broad cast and the speed set to transmit and receive wi-fi signals.
If set higher than the usb adapter says it can work at.
Lower the mode, and maximum speed the router is giving out.
Save the changes in the router, or apply them before you exit it.
restart the router and wait 90 seconds for it to reconfigure to the new changes you have made.
Then restart windows on your system, and test the usb wi-fi adapter again for speed.
It happens with Usb adapters where the router is set above the capacity the Usb device can work at in wi-fi terms.
A low speed recived in Mbps of the Usb device is a sign that it is not fully compatible with the set speed broadcast by the wi-fi router. and the band rating set in 54G to 150N to 300N ect. of the router its self.
There for the adapter is not 100% compatible with the current router settings.
Where it can only achieve very low downstream speeds and up stream feeds.
What also happens is the usb adapter will drop the link or connection between the USB device and the wi-fi network the router is broadcasting at.
These can be random in nature where the wi-fi connection is completely lost to the Adapter used having a yellow exclamation mark showing on the network icon on windows desktop Gazman30.
Band the dongle has set its self to.
If you can change the speed setting and the duplex mode of the usb device.
Login to the wireless router you have and see what it is also set in in relation to the network type being broad cast and the speed set to transmit and receive wi-fi signals.
If set higher than the usb adapter says it can work at.
Lower the mode, and maximum speed the router is giving out.
Save the changes in the router, or apply them before you exit it.
restart the router and wait 90 seconds for it to reconfigure to the new changes you have made.
Then restart windows on your system, and test the usb wi-fi adapter again for speed.
It happens with Usb adapters where the router is set above the capacity the Usb device can work at in wi-fi terms.
A low speed recived in Mbps of the Usb device is a sign that it is not fully compatible with the set speed broadcast by the wi-fi router. and the band rating set in 54G to 150N to 300N ect. of the router its self.
There for the adapter is not 100% compatible with the current router settings.
Where it can only achieve very low downstream speeds and up stream feeds.
What also happens is the usb adapter will drop the link or connection between the USB device and the wi-fi network the router is broadcasting at.
These can be random in nature where the wi-fi connection is completely lost to the Adapter used having a yellow exclamation mark showing on the network icon on windows desktop Gazman30.
Watch the resource monitor and see if your machines is sending/receiving large amounts of traffic. You should see the IP that it is talking to if there are large amounts of traffic. You may also be able to tell the program on your machine that is using the traffic
What you can also do is from other machines ping the router ip address. Even large amounts of traffic from your machine should not have any impact on other machines ping time to the router.
What you can also do is from other machines ping the router ip address. Even large amounts of traffic from your machine should not have any impact on other machines ping time to the router.
Thanks for the suggestion bill. It ended up being a svchost.exe netsvcs process that was running and eating all of the bandwidth. It was caused by windows update trying and failing to download updates. I ran the troubleshooter, restarted the updates, and once they were finished everything went back to normal.
I really hate win10 and their auto update crap. Sure it forces the dumb users to take updates but it eats bandwidth when it is not convenient. I just can't wait until they make a mistake and push a update that breaks a huge number of machines.
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