I have cat 6 cabale and router and laptop have gbps port and also my network provider support gbps speed still my network shows me its 100 mbps any solution?
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Test patching directly into router, not via internal cabling.
Test different cable.
Test with different laptop.Just for fun: test WiFi, preferably 5 GHz. If that nets you more than 100 mbit then your router/ISP is the issue.
Also, what do you get when testing on e.g. Speedtest.net?
check for damaged pins in ethernet ports. gigabit uses 4 pairs and 100 meg uses 2 pairs so maybe a bad connection in one of the ports.
We have same problem. Wiggling cable in wall port will fix it up.
This just happened to me today lol, turns out my old Dell laptop doesn’t have a gigabit port. Got full speed on Apple TV and new laptop.
99 times out of 100 this is an issue with the cable. Be it the one in the computer or the one in the wall.
Laptop port has problem i figure out
Are you plugged directly into your router or into a switch? What model is your network card on your computer? What model is your router or any switched in between your computer and the router? There is probably a device that is a 10/100 device instead of a 10/100/1000 device but we need more info to diagnose the issue.
Even if you have a cat 6 rated cable depending on the cable itself, the NIC and your router will validate if it can reach 1GB speeds, if the twisted pairs in the cat 6 cable are degraded in anyway then the NIC and the router will negotiate to a speed it can support, which may be your issue here. I would try using another cat 6 cable you know is good to validate if its just a bad cable or not.
or lets say ha
large chunk of laptops are 100mb ports. for cost cutting.
cheaper to do faster chip with wifi . then a a wired chip.
Test the cable using another device.
If the other device connects at 1gb then it’s not the cable. Look at your nic settings and make sure it’s set to auto/auto link speed/duplex. If it is, consider getting a different nic.
Most people here are mentioning hardware or bottleneck issues, and those guesses are certainly very possible, but have you checked your link speed / duplex settings? If you Google it you should find instructions for making sure it’s set to allow the right speeds.
This maybe set on 100 and not 1000. Check the nic settings
The better question here are what models are your laptop and router? That would rule them out in terms of compatibility with gigabit speed.
Stop guessing and test Here is a link to a thread about testers
Here are my checklist when this happens.
- Check the NIC on the machine and see if it supports 1 GBPS
- Check the ethernet wire to see if the cable is properly terminated or not.
- Check the port on the switch/router you are connecting to and see if that’s the culprit.
Cat 5e also supports gigabit.
Yehh
I’ve had this problem. The issue is probably cable termination, and if it’s not that, the next most-likely answer is a problem with the shielding and/or twisting along the run. 100 Mbps is the same as 1 Gbps with a higher error rate. Swap out the cable if you can. If still experiencing the problem, try different devices on each end if you have them available.
I have a ROF zephyrus laptop and for some reason it’s gigabit Ethernet card started stating it was 10/100 and nothing I did would get it off FE.
It has WiFi 6 and I use a thunderbolt dock that has Ethernet and because of that I’m not that worried, but ports can and will just go bad or drop down to FE.
