Windows 11 is limiting my internet speeds

Anonymous
2023-02-08T03:54:27+00:00

When I go into my network connections tab under my control panel I can see that the speed of the connection varies but usually stays between 150Mb/s to 180Mb/s however when it comes to browsing or downloading things I'm only getting between 3-5Mb/s.

I have already gone through and uninstalled then reinstalled brand new drivers as well as this being a brand new PC.

Metered connections is off

I also know its not anything to do with my network as when testing the speed on other devices it usually stays between 150Mb/s to 180Mb/s as well.

I have tried everything that I can find however nothing has worked thus far and I am just very confused why my computer just doesn't seem to want to use its available internet.

For specs I'm running a gigabyte B450M D3SH WIFI motherboard, Ryzen 5 2600, RTX 2070 super, 16 gigs of ram, 500 GB SSD, 2TB HDD. Running the most current version of windows 11

This was my dream gaming pc and so to have this slow of wifi makes it somewhat useless

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-29T01:22:26+00:00

    Did this:

    These sets of commands will reset the internet connection and re-calibrate the internet settings you have.

    Press Windows Key + X.
    Click on Command prompt (Admin).
    Type the following commands, and hit Enter after each command:

    netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled
    netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
    netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled
    netsh winsock reset
    netsh int ip reset
    ipconfig /release
    ipconfig /renew
    ipconfig /flushdns

    Am now even worse off. Download was fast, now is slow, ie very very slow..

    Upload was slow. Now even slower.

    How on earth will I fix this???

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T23:41:31+00:00

    unfortunately none of these steps fixed my issue

    despite the fact that it looks like my connection is over 100Mb/s my computer seems to not want to use it

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-09T19:51:27+00:00

    I am losing my mind with this.

    Brand new PC - all drivers are up to date.

    Fresh install of Windows 11 - Still the same problem

    Booted into safe mode, got the issue with the PIN not working - another fresh install

    Back into windows, made sure I removed PIN as it DOES NOT WORK

    Tried everything, I did get my download speed to 250mbs for a few minutes, but now its back to being throttled at 9 mbps

    What a complete load of rubbish. How can Microsoft justify charging £120 for an operating system that is unable to use the internet properly.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T04:25:13+00:00

    Who is your Internet Service Provider and what plan do you have with them? What type of adapter does your computer have? I have Killer wi-fi adapter, and the image below shows my possible speeds, while my Spectrum ISP plan is for up to one gigabyte. My upload speed is around 40 Mbps.

    What type of modem/router do you have?

    More information about my adapter and wi-fi connection is shown below.

    Image

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-14T14:05:37+00:00

    netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal fixes this. see here https://pureinfotech.com/disable-window-auto-tuning-fix-slow-internet-speeds-windows-10/ 

    OK, I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure this issue out for days. None of the other suggestions made any difference. Whats worse is only 1 Windows 11 device on my network had the issue and if I took that device to another network, it ran just fine. Turns out my auto tuning level was disabled and setting it to normal, as suggested, resolved the issue immediately. No reconnects or reboots required.

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