Network card dying?

Darr2cool78

Darr2cool78

Darr2cool78

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Have this weird problem with my now 2 year old laptop. Suddenly the network performance has hit rock bottom and I am only ever seeing about 1/3 of my 80mb Infinity. At first I put it down to the wireless (even though it was always fine before) but after further testing I have found that it is not the wireless at fault.

I took my dads laptop (older spec running vista) on wireless and ran the BT Wholesale speed test. On 5/5 tests it got 75mb down. Then on mine (newer laptop) I got 16/25 and low speeds like this on 5/5 tests. Both laptops same distance from HUB.

I then plugged my dads old laptop in via cable on 1gb lan. I got 75mb down on 5/5 tests. On my laptop (again newer, windows 7 etc etc) I got 16mb on all tests....

Both laptops where connected via the same wireless N protocol and the same channel, and then both where connected via a CAT5e cable and both have up to date network drivers compatible with Gig Lan. My question is....

Woooooots going on?? lol :(
 
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Did a full factory restore and cleaned the laptop out of dust, when connected via 1Gb lan 16mb was still the max it can do on a proved 75Mb connection, the chipset must be dying :( When tested no firewall or network software was running.

Anyone know a good external network card that has an ethernet port connecting via usb?
 
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