Question Ethernet performing way below spec on mom's PC!

[Fallen Kell]

Edit: double post

 

[jmagg]

Tell her to get a jobby job and pay for the fix for her luxury retreat like everyone else does?

You are asking for IT help when the majority of IT people don't have a luxury lake house. That comes off to me as extremely selfish/greedy/sociopathic/arseholish.

I don't really care what the excuses are. If you can't, and she can't, sell the lakehouse. Reality 101.

Do you also expect free plumbing, air conditioning repair, gas, water, etc? Just being real. No patience for spoiled brats who want a free ride.

If this was her only residence and only connection to the internet, completely different situation. There is no hardship here, only greed and laziness to DIY. Even if the "lake house" is her only residence, it still applies.

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[mindless1]

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[Dave3000]

Today I brought my Apple TV 4k over to my parent's lakehouse to test the ethernet to see if it's this computer that's the issue and it turns out it is. With the Apple TV 4k connected to ethernet over there, into the same ethernet port on the router, I'm getting around 554 mbps in the speedtest on the 500 mbps Spectrum plan. My PC does not have this issue with Firefox with the internet speed and they are both up-to-date versions of Firefox. One of the PC's at the main residence which is the "Guest" PC in the "Guest" bedroom is experiencing this issue as well but to a smaller degree, it's also a little newer PC than this Dell Inspiron 580.

 

[bigboxes]

Doesn't seem like much of a problem at all. You're almost getting 500Mbps on mom's rig. You can't even tell the difference IRL. Call it a day. I just ran a speed test and got 264/12. Totally normal for my plan. Is there really a problem here?

 

[Dave3000]

It's sometimes is getting 330-350 mbps in speedtest in Firefox, but then I run speedtest in Edge right after and it's getting 540-550 mbps on my mom's PC. As I mentioned, my PC does not have this issue in Firefox. My PC is a system with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Can single-core CPU speed have anything to do with speedtest in Firefox, especially as internet connections get faster? Maybe Firefox is doing something that Edge is not doing during speedtest causing this on slower systems? The "Guest" PC at my parent's main residence as a little faster single-core speed than the CPU in the Dell Inspiron 580 at the lakehouse and is doing a little better in speedtest in firefox than the Dell 580. The CPU in the guest PC is a AMD A7800.

 

[bigboxes]

It's sometimes is getting 330-350 mbps in speedtest in Firefox, but then I run speedtest in Edge and it's getting 540-550 mbps on my mom's PC. As I mentioned, my PC does not have this issue in Firefox. My PC is a system with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Can single-core CPU speed have anything to do with speedtest in Firefox. The "Guest" PC at my parent's main residence as a little faster single-core speed than the CPU in the Dell Inspiron 580 at the lakehouse and is doing a little better in speedtest in firefox than the Dell 580. The CPU in the guest PC is a AMD A7800.

Is this really a problem?

 

[Dave3000]

She doesn't seem to care about it. I'm the one that brought it up to her. I told her it's the system and nothing is wrong with her internet connection after testing my Apple TV 4k internet connection using ethernet. If I hadn't told her about the issue, I'm sure she wouldn't have noticed anyways. She will continue using the system as it is and she doesn't use it very often when she's there. She doesn't want a new system and it does all she needs it to do.

 

[DaaQ]

If I have read correctly, she is using an older PC which is probably Wifi N 5ghz, where your newer stuff is probably wifi ac or ax. This may be the source of the speed differences.

Also it it is a single core machine, well, that is alot of overhead. I do believe FF takes advantage of MC.

Also is it a D3.0 modem or a D3.1? Some older D# modems will only bond 8 channels instead of 16. I have seen ones only bond 4.

Just a thought.

 

[Micrornd]

it does all she needs it to do.

And that's all that really matters.

 

[Fallen Kell]

If I have read correctly, she is using an older PC which is probably Wifi N 5ghz, where your newer stuff is probably wifi ac or ax. This may be the source of the speed differences.

Also it it is a single core machine, well, that is alot of overhead. I do believe FF takes advantage of MC.

Also is it a D3.0 modem or a D3.1? Some older D# modems will only bond 8 channels instead of 16. I have seen ones only bond 4.

Just a thought.

He states in the first sentence that it is with the ethernet connection (i.e. wired). It insn't a wireless issue.