Half speed at Best!

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Which means What?

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They tend to fix it a hell of a lot quicker, plus no price rises at all.

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The VM Residential customers pay for your No price rise, every April

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Hey donā€™t hate the player hate the game lol

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Looking like it is the driver on my mobo for 2.5Gb IntelĀ® Ethernet Controller I226-V.
Yes there is an update but that isnā€™t fixing it apparently.
Luckily I also have a 10Gb port and get full speed from that!

Not sure now whether to just leave it in that port or get a usb c to 2.5Gb adapter, theh are cheap enough.

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USB C will likely be Realtek basedā€¦ I wouldnā€™t suggest thats the way you want to go unless you absolutely have to.

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Why so?

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FYI, I have an Anker 2.5Gb USB C Ethernet connector for my laptop, when I need to plug it in rather than use wireless. Get the full 2.5Gb speeds on that when iPerfing to one of my boxes on a 10Gb link. Very nice piece of kit.

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@anon96327173 it was working before and I have altered no settings

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I never updated the driver as the new driver version has reported several issues. Nothing Had changed at the time

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FYI the issue looks to be windows itself.

I decided to run Linux again, specifically Garuda Linux.

Speeds using the 2.5Gb post just now

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Are you running any firewalls? Usually the problem with slow speeds on Windows if the connection ports are all up to speed. Iā€™ve had it a few times that seem to be caused by updates to my firewall software.

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As far as I Was aware there had been no updates.

Moot point now though as I have moved to Linux completely

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Generally Realtek chipsets and drivers are not great - ironically the intel i225 was also awful for at least the first two chipset revisions, linux tends to be better driver wise than say BSD, Windows can be hit and miss, USB just adds a whole layer of complexity that you want to avoid. Almost every USB network adapter that you can buy in the 2.5Gb class is Realtek based, in fact I am only aware of one other OEM operating in that market.

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it has -

Intel Ethernet I226-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 07:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:125c class-ID: 0200

Aquantia AQtion AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3an Ethernet [Atlantic
10G] vendor: Gigabyte driver: atlantic v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 2 link-max: lanes: 4 port: N/A bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 1d6a:07b1 class-ID: 0200 temp: 41.8 C