- Nov 24, 2010
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Hello!
Recently, lightning hit a house next to mine and it completely fried my modem (I have since invested in surge protectors for my ethernet lines). Everything is up and running again and all seems normal except that I am no longer able to get high speed internet on my desktop. From what I understand with the Nighthawk router, an amber light indicates that that port is getting sub Gigabit (gigabyte?) speeds. My benchmark for my desktop through Fast was 73Mbps but now I'm sitting at 9.8Mbps max. The other two ports are connected to my Xbox One and my HTPC which are both getting the original speeds.
Things I've tried:
Rebooting everything.
Replacing the cable from the desktop to the router with a brand new Cat6 cable.
Connecting the modem directly to the desktop.
Updating the driver for the onboard LAN (Realtek 8111E) on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (Socket M2) motherboard.
Basically, at this point I'm trying to figure out if it is router based (which seems unlikely due to the other three ports working as previously) or if it is desktop based (in that case, I'm thinking of buying a PCI-E LAN card if my onboard is fried).
I am currently running Windows 7 64-bit SP1. Thanks in advance for all of your help!!
Recently, lightning hit a house next to mine and it completely fried my modem (I have since invested in surge protectors for my ethernet lines). Everything is up and running again and all seems normal except that I am no longer able to get high speed internet on my desktop. From what I understand with the Nighthawk router, an amber light indicates that that port is getting sub Gigabit (gigabyte?) speeds. My benchmark for my desktop through Fast was 73Mbps but now I'm sitting at 9.8Mbps max. The other two ports are connected to my Xbox One and my HTPC which are both getting the original speeds.
Things I've tried:
Rebooting everything.
Replacing the cable from the desktop to the router with a brand new Cat6 cable.
Connecting the modem directly to the desktop.
Updating the driver for the onboard LAN (Realtek 8111E) on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (Socket M2) motherboard.
Basically, at this point I'm trying to figure out if it is router based (which seems unlikely due to the other three ports working as previously) or if it is desktop based (in that case, I'm thinking of buying a PCI-E LAN card if my onboard is fried).
I am currently running Windows 7 64-bit SP1. Thanks in advance for all of your help!!
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