I am having an issue with a recently set up Gigabit network. My Gigabit switch is the TP-Link TL-SG1008D and the PC with the issue is connected by a Cat5e ethernet cable to the switch.
I can download fine (at speeds the HDDs will allow, 800Mbit give or take) on to the PC in question from other Gigabit enabled PC's but when I upload to other PC's/people try to download off my network it goes only at 140Mbps (14MB/s). I still need to test it on some other PC's though so it might be an issue with the Vista PC I am sending data to (my PC is windows 7 64 bit).
If it was consistent like this then I would assume it was just a cable that was the issue, but the fact that I can download at full speed (receive data from other machines, it's only sending data that is the problem) makes me think the cables are fine (I have tried other cables too) and it's probably a Windows settings issue or something.
It has worked after I restart before but I just tried it now and it is still slow to upload.
Can anyone shed any light on what this issue might be and how to resolve it?
Cheers
Edit: On further testing it seems to be an issue with the Vista PC not the W7 one as I can send data to other PC's at full speed on it but the Vista PC seems to cap receiving data to it at 150Mbps most of the time, though it has worked fine before I'm not sure what was different when it did work. The Vista PC has a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller network adapter and is connected to the switch via a cat6e cable, I changed in the advanced tab of the network card it to 1Gb duplex but it didn't change anything still downloads at 150Mbps.
I can download fine (at speeds the HDDs will allow, 800Mbit give or take) on to the PC in question from other Gigabit enabled PC's but when I upload to other PC's/people try to download off my network it goes only at 140Mbps (14MB/s). I still need to test it on some other PC's though so it might be an issue with the Vista PC I am sending data to (my PC is windows 7 64 bit).
If it was consistent like this then I would assume it was just a cable that was the issue, but the fact that I can download at full speed (receive data from other machines, it's only sending data that is the problem) makes me think the cables are fine (I have tried other cables too) and it's probably a Windows settings issue or something.
It has worked after I restart before but I just tried it now and it is still slow to upload.
Can anyone shed any light on what this issue might be and how to resolve it?
Cheers
Edit: On further testing it seems to be an issue with the Vista PC not the W7 one as I can send data to other PC's at full speed on it but the Vista PC seems to cap receiving data to it at 150Mbps most of the time, though it has worked fine before I'm not sure what was different when it did work. The Vista PC has a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller network adapter and is connected to the switch via a cat6e cable, I changed in the advanced tab of the network card it to 1Gb duplex but it didn't change anything still downloads at 150Mbps.
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