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99adgil's avatar
99adgil
Superfast
2 months ago

10% DL speed on my gigabit line for last 24hrs? ME5 area

Getting sub 100mbs DL speeds and normal 100mbs UL speeds wired in ME5 area

was intermittent fault showing in area earlier on checker but all clear now.

Hardware reboots no changes to issue

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    Seeing speeds below 100Mb/s can be a sign of a defective Ethernet cable.

    Test this with ...

    https://www.samknows.com/realspeed/

    Once the test begins click on: Run full test to include: Latency, Jitter, Packet loss & Upload speed

    The speed at the Hub should reflect your subscription rate.

  • speed is similar on all devices and if one device is using all of the 100mb ish available the rest will be unable to function

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    That looks like exactly a device Ethernet connected at 100Mb/s.

    The Samknows Realspeed test shows the speed to the VM Hub as well as the Hub to the device speed.

    • 99adgil's avatar
      99adgil
      Superfast

      my network runs off of an eero usually with the Vhub in bridge mode

      Deeper testing is however now showing the Eero sees a full gigabit speed but is only out putting 100mbs speeds which is very odd

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    Presuming speeds well over 100Mb/s have been seen in the recent past...

    Only outputting < 100mb/s i.e. connected at 1000Mb/s & bandwidth limited,
    or is the Eero connecting at a link rate of 100Mb/s to your device ?

    It looks like the latter, which is usually either ...
    a network cable fault ( very common )
    or use of a 10/100 network switch
    or a PC NIC set to 10/100 in the Windows Device Manager
    or use of a PC NIC or a USB to Ethernet adaptor that is only capable of 10/100.

    • 99adgil's avatar
      99adgil
      Superfast

      yep speeds seen 900+before moving cable direct to VM Hub gives 900+

      definite Eero issue just no idea why as no settings were changed wifi wired all same issues (300-500 on wifi usually)