cornelious0_0
[H]F Junkie
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- Apr 6, 2003
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Just wanted to throw my situation to the wind and see what some of my fellow [H]'ers thought.
Within the last 24 hours I had been noticing some abnormally poor download speeds and latency in WoW and it wasn't until this afternoon that I actually took the time to start looking into some of the specifics of the situation. Basing actions on the low download speeds and poor latency I proceeded to do the following...all to no avail:
- Power cycle cable modem/router
- Update router firmware (D-Link DIR-655)
- Move ethernet cable to a known working port on the router
- Try a new ethernet cable
- Re-install LAN drivers
- Confirm D/L speeds of 2 other computers (1 wired, 1 wireless) on the network
The last bit of information that I came across was the fact that when the onboard LAN is set to 100 Mbps/Full Duplex (down from the default 1 Gbps/Full Duplex) my download speed jumps from 220kbps to 2.1Mbps. This is still nothing outstanding but it does say something...I'm just not sure what.
For as long as I've spent engrossed in PC hardware tweaking I never have taken it upon myself to become sufficiently competent with networking in general beyond basic initial setup and file/printer sharing.
Curious to see if anyone has any thoughts that don't involve me swapping out this Intel DP55KG for the spare I have waiting.
Within the last 24 hours I had been noticing some abnormally poor download speeds and latency in WoW and it wasn't until this afternoon that I actually took the time to start looking into some of the specifics of the situation. Basing actions on the low download speeds and poor latency I proceeded to do the following...all to no avail:
- Power cycle cable modem/router
- Update router firmware (D-Link DIR-655)
- Move ethernet cable to a known working port on the router
- Try a new ethernet cable
- Re-install LAN drivers
- Confirm D/L speeds of 2 other computers (1 wired, 1 wireless) on the network
The last bit of information that I came across was the fact that when the onboard LAN is set to 100 Mbps/Full Duplex (down from the default 1 Gbps/Full Duplex) my download speed jumps from 220kbps to 2.1Mbps. This is still nothing outstanding but it does say something...I'm just not sure what.
For as long as I've spent engrossed in PC hardware tweaking I never have taken it upon myself to become sufficiently competent with networking in general beyond basic initial setup and file/printer sharing.
Curious to see if anyone has any thoughts that don't involve me swapping out this Intel DP55KG for the spare I have waiting.