Router to Hub to Many - Except One...help please

[Cienja]

Hi. I have an Asus AC1900 router with 2' of Cat5e connecting it to my cable modem. My Comcast speed is "up to" 150 Mbps. The router connects to a 5-port Netgear Hub with Cat5e at about 20' in length. From the hub, I have Cat5e running to a laptop, to another laptop, to an Xbox One, and my PC. Using a speed test on my laptop, the results are what one would expect; download speed around 100 and upload speed about 30. However, when I check the speed of my PC at the same site, using Chrome and Firefox for this test, my download speed is 3 and my upload speed is 9.

I'm using an on board LAN on my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 board, which should have no problems with the speed, yet it does.

Lastly, if I remove the router to hub cable from the hub and plug it into my PC, the speed jumps to about a download speed of 30 and upload of 10. Faster without the hub, but something is obviously off because my laptop is maxing out the "speedometer" on the speed site.

I am thinking I need a new network card, but I'm not certain.

Straight cable, not crossover, Cat5e and Cat6 is what I'm using.

Any thoughts on what I can do other than buy a new card? I've played with settings for months, so any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[BarkingGhostar]

And what happens if you switch between the laptop and PC so the PC using the port on the hub that the laptop used? Frog the cables between the laptop and PC and see if the bad behavior moved to the laptop and the good behavior to the PC.

 

[sdifox]

When you tested the first laptop, you made sure the wifi is off on it?

 

[Mushkins]

Is that a hub or a switch?

Very, very important distinction, they are not at all the same thing.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Hi. I have an Asus AC1900 router with 2' of Cat5e connecting it to my cable modem. My Comcast speed is "up to" 150 Mbps. The router connects to a 5-port Netgear Hub with Cat5e at about 20' in length. From the hub, I have Cat5e running to a laptop, to another laptop, to an Xbox One, and my PC. Using a speed test on my laptop, the results are what one would expect; download speed around 100 and upload speed about 30. However, when I check the speed of my PC at the same site, using Chrome and Firefox for this test, my download speed is 3 and my upload speed is 9.

I'm using an on board LAN on my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 board, which should have no problems with the speed, yet it does.

Lastly, if I remove the router to hub cable from the hub and plug it into my PC, the speed jumps to about a download speed of 30 and upload of 10. Faster without the hub, but something is obviously off because my laptop is maxing out the "speedometer" on the speed site.

I am thinking I need a new network card, but I'm not certain.

Straight cable, not crossover, Cat5e and Cat6 is what I'm using.

Any thoughts on what I can do other than buy a new card? I've played with settings for months, so any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!

Did you try either a new ethernet cable or a different port on the hub? That honestly just sounds like a cabling problem.

Is that a hub or a switch?

Very, very important distinction, they are not at all the same thing.

In this instance it doesn't really matter.

 

[VirtualLarry]

In this instance it doesn't really matter.

It could. Hubs are generally 10, or maybe 10/100. Switches are 10/100, or Gigabit.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It could. Hubs are generally 10, or maybe 10/100. Switches are 10/100, or Gigabit.

If it were a 100Mb Hub, none of the computers connected to it would be getting proper download speeds. It's just the one.

 

[mxnerd]

@OP

are you sure the Netgear you have is a hub and not a switch? What model is it? I don't think there are many hubs still in use nowadays.

Have you tried to change the port on the hub/switch? What speed does it show on the port? There should be LED lights telling the speed.
It could be port is bad or not contacting the pins of the cable properly and slow down the speed.

Besides, since you are using Chrome & Firefox, do you have any proxy extension that redirect your traffic?

 

[kevnich2]

At first glance, sounds like a NIC issue. I have a very hard time believing you'd have a hub vs a switch. Last hub I saw was over 10 years ago. Have you taken the same cable your PC uses and used that for laptop and seen the normal speed?

It could also be a qos setting that's limiting nic of pc but I doubt it, based on what you've said. My suggestion is pick up another pci nic and try it. Gig NIC's are cheap these days.

 

[VirtualLarry]

You don't have "AppEx Network Accelerator" or "AMD QuickStream" installed, do you? Is the system in question using an AMD APU, by any chance?

 

[yinan]

I would try and get a router with more ethernet ports and eliminate the hub/smaller switch.