UE300 TP-LINK Gigabit Ethernet USB Adapter less than 100Mbps
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My home broadband is supplied by Virgin Media 350Mbps fibre.
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5570 laptop. It comes witha Dell GigabitEthernet adapter but I am told this is limited to 100Mbps by the Realtek PCle FE Family Controller.
I therefore bought the UE300 TP-LINK Gigabit Ethernet USB Adapter
PnP worked but there was no improvement in speed - approx 95Mbps - which is the best I was achieving before
I updated the driver to Realtek 10.34.603.2019 but still no change
What else could be stopping the adapter from giving me faster speeds?
I see in Device Manager 2 * VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter. Task Manager shows them as connected but there's no activity. Are they relevant to this problem?
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With your computer connected to the main router by wired cable, please check the wired negotiation speed as the following instruction:
https://www.tp-link.com/support/faq/2265/
Note: The steps are the same, while you need right click on local area connection or ethernet connection to get it.
Meanwhile, if there is a built-in network adapter, it is suggested to disable it and use the UE300 to provide wired connection via USB port for you.
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Thanks for your help, Kevin.
However, I have found a solution. I was posting originally in the support site of my ISP. It was the guys there that suggested I get the adapter.
They also advised I get a CAT6 cable.
Once I installed that my speed soon shot up to 290Mbps
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He changed the cable to a better one, cat6.
If you use the cat5 or below cable, the speed you get won't be higher than 100Mbps. Try to get a better one.
Good day.
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When i'm using this cable straight to the computer without the adapter it is totally okay, and the connection speed reaches 300mb/s which is exactly the speed that im paying for.
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I purchased this from Amazon yesterday and after connecting i am getting only 100Mbps link speed. However i have directly connected the ethernet cable from my ISP provider and link speed shows as 1Gbps. What is the issue , can you please help me fix.
Please note that my Asus Vivobook Ultrabook do not have a built in ethernet port, hence I bought this.
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@Kevin_Z Thanx for your help. I have a Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 and when I disabled the built-in network adapter Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller it worked like a charm!
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