vista business network connection problem

I have windows vista business 32bit with a Gigabyte K8N-Pro SLI. When I get connected to the network it says that i'm connected at 10mbps even though i'm connected through ethernet. Does anyone know what I can do to get back to 100mbps, my internet is extremely slow.

Assuming you are on a 100 MB connection, go into the device properties for your NIC. You may have to manually set it to auto-negotiate, or to the exact speed you should be using, 100 MB full duplex. If that doesn't work, you may need updated drivers.

I tried to manually put it to 100mbs full duplex but it said the network cable was unplugged... hmm this is very odd. I live in a college dorm and am plugged in with ethernet.

aer you sure the college network runs at 100mb?

My old dorm room everything was 10mb

the dorm being only 10mbps is interesting although I highly doubt that the network is 10mbps, my internet is ungodly slow and it started after I installed vista

KompressorV12 said:

the dorm being only 10mbps is interesting although I highly doubt that the network is 10mbps, my internet is ungodly slow and it started after I installed vista

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10Mbps isn't slow, I doubt you will ever see 10Mbps. Connecting at 100Mbps isn't going to help anything.

What you need is updated drivers. If that doens't help goto www.dslreports.com and do a bandwidth test, then try it on other PC's on the same network.

Alias2 said:

10Mbps isn't slow, I doubt you will ever see 10Mbps. Connecting at 100Mbps isn't going to help anything.

What you need is updated drivers. If that doens't help goto www.dslreports.com and do a bandwidth test, then try it on other PC's on the same network.

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although 10mbs is decently fine for the internet (my comcast connection is 12mbps and my college network is about 15mbs) 10mbps is extremely slow for network transfers (which I do regularly). The first thing I did was update my drivers. I'll keep working on a fix.

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I deleted the drivers and are using microsoft drivers from june 2006 (the drivers I used were nvidia drivers from jan 07), and that didn't work... then I tried manually setting it to 100mbps full and half duplex and it makes my connection 1gbps which obviously won't work and leaves my connection disconnected, when I select 10mbps full or half duplex it makes it 10mbps, so autonegotiation goes with the one that works which is 10mbps, there are two ethernet ports in this dorm, my roommate (win xp) has 100mbps so its capable, i plugged into his port and only 10 still, he plugged into mine and he has 100 still... it has to be something with the vista operating system

KompressorV12 said:

although 10mbs is decently fine for the internet (my comcast connection is 12mbps and my college network is about 15mbs) 10mbps is extremely slow for network transfers (which I do regularly). The first thing I did was update my drivers. I'll keep working on a fix.

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Lucky SOB. I am lucky to get 5Mbps.

Thats an odd problem. Did you look in your BIOS?

Did you check the cable? Did you swap cables with your roomate?

when I plug into my router I get 100mbps so it isn't the cable, it looks like it is the college network but remember my roommate plugs into my socket without my router at 100mbps... I also checked bios and no go

very annoying