The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Gigabyte card only going 100 Mbps

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Knoll, Mar 13, 2009.

  1. Knoll

    Knoll Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    50
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I'm sure there is an easy fix for this but my Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) is only reading my internet connection at 100 Mbps, I remember having it read at 1 gig at one point when I checked the properties. My router is a DIR-628. Any Ideas will be great.
     
    Knoll, Mar 13, 2009
    #1
  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,557
    Messages:
    6,682
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    If you have a non gigabit device plugged into a gigabit router, it will likely dumb all of the ports to 100 Mb/s speed.
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 13, 2009
    #2
  3. wlan_man

    wlan_man Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    122
    Messages:
    196
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Any 100Mbps devices attached to router, this can cause the who network to run at 100Mbsp even though you have a Gbit LAN.
     
    wlan_man, Mar 13, 2009
    #3
  4. CrazyTasty

    CrazyTasty Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    129
    Likes Received:
    21
    Trophy Points:
    31
    According to D-Link's spec sheet, the DIR-628 doesn't support gigabit ethernet.
     
    CrazyTasty, Mar 13, 2009
    #4
  5. wlan_man

    wlan_man Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    122
    Messages:
    196
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    That will be the main reason why then :)

    When buying a router also check to see if the WAN port can do 1Gbit.
    Quite a few only do Gbit on the 4 LAN ports but only 100Mbps on the WAN port.

    Dlink 655, 825 and 855 are 1Gbit on all 5 ports
     
    wlan_man, Mar 13, 2009
    #5
  6. surfasb

    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

    Reputations:
    2,637
    Messages:
    6,370
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    The simplest answer is usually the right answer.
     
    surfasb, Mar 13, 2009
    #6