1)Your ISP is throttling everyone during peak times
2)Steam sometimes just stops downloading
2)Steam sometimes just stops downloading
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This sounds like a hardware issue. A couple of things it could be:
1. What type of Ethernet cable was your house wired with? CAT 3 Ethernet can only support 10Mb/s. Hopefully it is CAT 5 or better.
2. What router do you have? It could be a setting that needs to be changed, or (more likely) the RJ-45 jack might be going bad. A faulty RJ-45 jack on your motherboard may also be the issue.
Also, try running this from your command line: tracert www.google.com
It will show you how long each hop is taking / if your are having packet loss on your ISP's line.
Originally Posted by Daris1015 its defiantly not my PC. all my drivers are up to date and I've gone through 3 PCs now and the problem has been the same in all of them. Our house is wired to have ethernet in every room and the cables all run down to the basement where my router is. So there is defiantly something going wrong somewhere between the port in my room and the isp |
1. What type of Ethernet cable was your house wired with? CAT 3 Ethernet can only support 10Mb/s. Hopefully it is CAT 5 or better.
2. What router do you have? It could be a setting that needs to be changed, or (more likely) the RJ-45 jack might be going bad. A faulty RJ-45 jack on your motherboard may also be the issue.
Also, try running this from your command line: tracert www.google.com
It will show you how long each hop is taking / if your are having packet loss on your ISP's line.
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I really don't think its my computer that's the issue. I have built 3 new computers and i have been using them in my room. they have all had the same problem.
I did a lot of testing last night. I have found that in every room of my house if i want to connect through wired then i need to set the speed&duplex down 10 10mb/s full.
and when i connect directly to the router i have no problems.
So this leads me to believe that the problem is in my Ethernet cable.
There is a direct line from router to my room. and it is indeed cat5. I have a feeling the problem may be in the plugs. For they are not factory made. They were wired then crimped. maybe there is a bad crimp?
We have a hub that is built into the wall that i can wire the cat5 cable directly into. I could then use a 1' Ethernet cable that would go from the hub into my router. I've been thinking about installing it this might help.
Originally Posted by scottsee What do you mean you've gone through 3 PC's. All your machines in the house are doing the same thing? Or just in your room. That's kind of an important thing to point out.. |
I did a lot of testing last night. I have found that in every room of my house if i want to connect through wired then i need to set the speed&duplex down 10 10mb/s full.
and when i connect directly to the router i have no problems.
So this leads me to believe that the problem is in my Ethernet cable.
There is a direct line from router to my room. and it is indeed cat5. I have a feeling the problem may be in the plugs. For they are not factory made. They were wired then crimped. maybe there is a bad crimp?
We have a hub that is built into the wall that i can wire the cat5 cable directly into. I could then use a 1' Ethernet cable that would go from the hub into my router. I've been thinking about installing it this might help.
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