Question Bottlenecked @ low speed w/new Internet

[Motaro38]

One problem is your PCIe port version and lane count. A PCIe version 2.0 port using 1 lane will only allow 500 MBps, which is only 4000 Gbps, which is less than the 5000 Gbps needed to support 2.5Gbps full-duplex (i.e. 2.5Gbps each direction). You are also need a decent CPU to handle the network traffic, the offload engine in windows for that card needs about 3-4x more CPU usage than most of the Intel 2.5Gbps cards (which is why the Intel cards run hotter and many have a heatsink+fan since it is offloading quite a bit more workload, and almost all those cards are PCIe version 3.0 so that they have the full bandwidth needed to support the actual 2.5Gbps speed).

Thanks for this post, Kell. Was concerned about this.

I plan to build a new PC, anyway, and all new MOBOs come with 2.5g+ ethernet ports in mobo so that, naturally, would solve problem.

 

[mindless1]

^ Or fiddle with network settings, even reinstall newest driver and then OS on the same system. It is not hardware limited to <=600Mb.

 

[Motaro38]

^ Or fiddle with network settings, even reinstall newest driver and then OS on the same system. It is not hardware limited to <=600Mb.

I think I've done all I can do. I did reinstall newest driver for network card, twice, I'm not reinstalling OS or installing dual partition/OS's, just not worth it imo and new pc will allow 2.5g bandwidth anyway. I really think its the hardware; mobo, or cpu...or whatever. It just wont allow more than 600-700mbit/sec. It was like 250mbit before, so its a big increase; definietly bi g enough for this pc. Do I wish I could see full 1800mbit/sec+ dl speeds? Of course...but I think I've run my course on this old workhorse. ;-)