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
    2023-11-09T19:51:27+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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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-12T17:41:05+00:00

    Same issue here, 90Mbp fibre connection that works on every other device in the household. Now I've installed windows 11 on a new SSD on my desktop pc and now it have issues with it capping to 3Mbps download speeds randomly. Resetting the network settings through the CMD prompts sorts it for a few days. Occurs if I use wireless or wired connections.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-12T17:55:11+00:00

    Mine has been stable for a few days now but it doesn't fill me with confidence.

    Exactly the same as you, doesn't matter if I'm on wired or wireless I was getting capped at 9mbps, just updated Virgin Media to M250 so was even more annoyed as I'd doubled my speed and that was pointless as Windows decided to cap it.

    Yeah, I also had some success with resetting all network connections through CMD, the jury is out on whether the auto-tuning makes it better or worse or no difference. To complicate matters further I've been downloading Microsoft Flight Simulator which turns out to be terrible anyway as the server is extremely slow and inconsistent.

    I'm not sure if it was on this thread but I have also removed all traces of Microsoft Teams so maybe that was the magic bullet? Currently getting full 264Mbit download on speedtest.net.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-26T21:55:38+00:00

    I'm back to 5Mb network speeds too. It'd been working fine for a couple of weeks and a couple of nights ago my steamlink went back to complaining of slow network speeds again. It's definitely an issue with windows or something in this install as I've tried a USB network adapter, the on board network port, a PCIE network card and a PCI wireless card. All of them end up capping out around 5Mb on this PC but my network (and internet) speeds are fine on any other device on the network.

    My last throw of the dice is going to be to attempt a reinstall to see if something has went wrong on this install.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-07T21:56:36+00:00

    If you have a Dell computer, and Dell Optimizer is running, if can limit the network bandwidth trying to prioritise some apps.

    You can run it by clicking on the Windows icon and starting to type Dell Optimizer, it should show up. Then disable network optimization.

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