Internet speed slow compared to wife

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My internet speed is significantly slower than my wife’s (we’re side-by-side in a gaming setup). She’s getting the speed we pay for and I’m getting less than half of that. We’re both hardwired, my PC is better than hers, I’ve replaced all of our internet equipment e.g. cables, router and modem, tried using her cable, scanned for viruses, cleaned out my PC etc.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what else could be wrong with my speed. Her speed is showing as over 200 mb/s whereas mine is 80-90. I know that’s still pretty decent speeds and I’ll do something to fix it briefly but it just goes back to doing this. I didn’t list every single thing I’ve done to try and fix it but I’ll either edit or reply if I have.

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I just had this problem when we got gigabit and my roommate was getting limited to around 90Mbps up and down. It turned out to be his Auto Negotiation was set to 100Mbps up/down. Check this and set it to Auto.

Edit: Sorry, I know it’s not the best video, but it’s what I found that helped me.

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Use a “Linux live” distro and measure speed on hers and yours. This takes out software differences and gives a fundamental hardware answer.

Don’t forget some QOS setting in the router, either.

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“Internet speed slow compared to wife”

Have you tried asking your wife to slow down?

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Did you update drivers from your motherboard manufacturer for the onboard lan chip?

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If it’s not the drivers, I’d strongly suspect the Ethernet cable. Gigabit Ethernet requires all four pairs of wires in the cable to work, whereas 10/100 only requires two pairs. So a single bad wire in the cable or connector can knock you down to the slower speed.

Fastest way to check is by borrowing your wife’s cable and see if that makes a difference.

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80-90 sounds like your connection is negotiating at 100 megabit rather than gigabit. You’ve either got a bad cable (a broken or disconnected wire in the blue or brown pairs will do this) or a misconfigured NIC. Try updating its drivers first, then swapping out the cable.

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Make sure your wife isn’t stepping on your ethernet cable. She may be doing it on purpose to reduce your speed so she can beat you in CoD.

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-=fast wife joke=-

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Plot twist: OP neglected to mention he is using a powerline adaptor while his wife is directly wired into the switch.

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Swap cables with your wife maybe you’re bad cables force you negotiate at 100 mbit instead of gig

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Hey I know another thing actually you can check the update on mobo and shit. But actually it maybe just your Windows pc is limiting you. You actually need to go to Ethernet settings and set it from 100 mb to 1000 mb I did that and it fixed everything. Just YouTube what I’m talking about.

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Sorry to be the one to tell you this but…the internet doesn’t like you. Your wife is cool but you?..sorry bro.

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80-90 usually means negotiating at 10/100.

Have you tried another NIC? Sometimes when they’re on their way out they only start negotiating slower speeds.

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It may have already been mentioned, so I apologize if it has. But you might want to see if you have any updates available for the driver of your NIC. Also, with those speeds, make sure that your NIC hasn’t auto negotiated to 100.

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Well, at least your wife is quick-witted!

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OP, it’s a link negotiation issue with your NIC. you either need an updated/ properly configured driver for your current or you need a new Ethernet interface.

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How are you measuring the speed? I was in a situation where Comcast’s own speedtest was giving me speeds slower than I should have gotten. Turns out, it was some Chrome extension slowing me down, once I switched into incognito mode it it got much faster.

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I have a switch that pulls random shit like this all the time, except it goes down to 10mbit or 20mbit speed even though it still shows a gig connection to the switch and machine… and it only does it to one port or machine and the others run at full speed. I’ve yet to figure out what it is and what causes it.

What kind of switch do you use?

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Almost definitely auto negotiation of network interface with the router/modem/switch. Check your network interface’s negotiation speed. This link will explain how to check it, come back to us when you have had a look.