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I only get a fraction of the bandwidth that other users get.
This is quite a strange issue for me and I'm trying to pinpoint the problem.
Lately, I've been experiencing bad download speeds and lag-spikes. So I ran a test on Speedof.me and sure enough, I'm only getting 10 - 20Mbps results. Sometimes the upload speed even exceeds the download speed which makes no sense to me.
Meanwhile, on another computer, no problem! 80Mbps download done easy.
The issue seems to be picky about when it does this as well - for example when downloading with Steam, suddenly I get 22MB/s! But only for that Steam download, for some reason.
Now I'm no novice with a computer. I checked everything I know of:
- Connected to the router and ensured no strange QoS settings were inside. Nope, QoS totally disabled.
- Also checked that said Router has good advanced configuration for the wireless bands.
- Checked my computer's network adapters to ensure everything's fine. (I keep QoS thoroughly disabled, so that's not the culprit).
- Tried connecting to the same band (2.4Ghz band) as the other computer was - nope, still bad DL speed. Re-connected to the 5Ghz band I use afterwards.
- Tried removing all of my Firewall and HOSTS file rules just in case they had anything to do with it for some weird reason (they really shouldn't) - nope, still bad DL speed.
- No, this system isn't running anywhere near capacity. It's not an overloading issue.
- All of these tests were done while the rest of the users were idle - so the network isn't just overloaded.
Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be? Is there a Group Policy setting buried somewhere that could throttle your network connection or something? I've already checked under "Administrative Templates >> Network", but all of them are simply in the "Not Configured" state, so they haven't been messed with I presume.
This just makes absolutely no bloody sense to me.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.