02-18-2018, 03:42 PM
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Originally posted by MarkP
I got hooked up yesterday evening and have been streaming Amazon Prime video since then. Seems to work darn good. Speed testing done on my new notebook computer showed 800 Mbps down and 97 Mbps up. The old desktop computer however showed only 20/37. I tried swapping cables around and it made no difference. The desktop numbers are very variable. I tried connecting both by WIFI and they both work at about 40/30 now although repeated speed tests one after the other generate wildly different results. Strange that the desktop computer is so slow when connected by cable.
If you have gigabit service, you need to upgrade the network interface card on desktop computer to get gigabit speeds. The desktop computer probably only has a 10/100 NIC on it.