Upgraded ISP speeds, one device having issues

adambean

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Hey all,

Spectrum just bumped us up to 100mb/s and all my devices (wired and wireless), minus one, are seeing this new speed. I have one Windows desktop that is not breaking ~45mb/s. It's several years old now, but has a gigabit Ethernet adapter (Marvell Yukon 88e8059) and I'm at a loss to why it's not getting the proper speeds.

It's on the same switch as my work laptop (which is getting > 100mb/s), so it's not the local hardware supporting it. I've tried changing the duplex speeds with no luck.

Have run all forms of AV/MW removal, nothing worthwhile to report there. I keep my machines very clean.

Any insight/suggestions?

Thanks
 

adambean

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Yeah, drivers are as up to date as they're going to be ... they're old (2013.04.11). Went to look for newer drivers (http://www.marvell.com/support/downloads/search.do) and they stopped at Windows 8 (I'm on 10). So obviously it's an old NIC.

As for checksum offloading - there's both TCP and UDP, for both IPv4 and IPv6. All four are set to "Rx & Tx Enabled". I set all four to disabled and still getting to the mid 40's (went slightly higher this time at 46.82).

Thoughts?
 

SoggyTissue

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not really, i would suggest that there maybe some incompatibility between the ipv6 and the card since the drivers are quite old ... but that shouldnt affect your routed speeds. :( you had this issue when you had win 8? (if you had win 7-8) .. maybe win 10 just doesnt like you :(
 

adambean

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@SoggyTissue - Unknown, I haven't been on W7/8 for years and back then, we didn't have these speeds possible.

@ingtar33 - I was thinking the same. I believe the cable I'm on may indeed be a cat5, don't have a long enough cat5e+ available. Still, cat5 'should' support up to 100mb. I'll look at replacing that next unless other suggestions exist.