Hey, I have an issue that my cabled network stops at 10/mbps. I know that my internet is up to 100 mbps and it works on my laptop, but on my desktop pc it somehows stops at 10mbps. I will link specs.
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Motherboard: Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON
Graphics Card: 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Ram: 16 GB DDR4 RAM
Harddrive: 1TB SSD
Network card: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V
Cable or port on the computer or router is either damaged or you have the wrong duplex set or you have QoS set up for the desktop.
Or you’re confusing Mbps and MBps (megabit vs megabyte), where exactly are you getting your numbers from ?
You’re saying “it somehows stops at 10Mbps”, but those terms don’t make sense in this context. A regular wired Ethernet connection is negotiated to be either 10 or 100 or 1000 Mbit, generally the highest one that both devices (pc & router) and the cable in between, say they can handle. There’s nothing in between, you will never end up with 97Mbit for example.
When you’re downloading something it’s common to talk about MegaBytes (per second) and those values vary all over the place. A 100Mbps connection under perfect conditions can reach 12.5MBps, so seeing 10MBps with that wouldn’t be a bad result.
If the network card really shows the link speed at 10Mbit and it’s plugged directly into the same router that the laptop is plugged into (which does get 100 or 1000 Mbit) then try flipping the position of the pc/laptop on the back of the router (to see if the router port is the problem).
Otherwise like Yannila said your network card is either misconfigured, busted or (more likely) the right drivers aren’t installed.
What’s your network cards connection speed in Ethernet status?
Some routers at 100Mbps network speed and faster as wireless.
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Might be you are dumping traffic somewhere,chek the Network Resource monitor if you are running W10.
- use WinMTR to chek your traceroute.
Maybe your desktop has low end network card and it just reaches its limit?
The card is 2.5 Gbps maximum, which it may not be set to.
Sandsh is probably correct.
I would assume you’re getting your megabits and megabytes mixed up.
Double check that first of all.
10/mbps would be 1.25MB/s which would be extremely slow, even old CAT5 cables can do up to 12.5MB/s.
Double checking your network card drivers is also a great idea.
Had issues with that in the past that was causing crazy packet loss.
I’m using a 10 year old cable that connects at 1Gbps, I got the cable with my Xbox 360 and that maxes out my 400Mpbs connection at a speed test. The OP should try a speed test too.
I just checked on my laptop and that is as old as my cable but it only runs at 43Mbps with a 1Gbps network speed. So that seems to be having the same problem as the OP.
Not to be a nag, but mbps is not Megabit, Mb is ^^.
Anyways, at OP,
How did you even test it?
Check network card settings.
Swap the cable.
Swap port on the router.
Update/reinstall drivers and OS.
1 Byte = 8 bits
internet speed is showed in bits, but download speed is showed in Bytes so if you have 100 Mb/s connection, your true download speed should be 100/8 which is 12,5 MB/s (with ideal connection, only 1 connected device with no interference)
Oops, fair point 
Corrected.
See this at work from time to time (though not so much these days) . Issue may be caused by (most common is top):
- Hardware has crashed.
- Windows playing up.
- Corrupt or buggy Network card drivers.
- Damaged / faulty network cable.
- Damaged router port or faulty router.
- Faulty Network card.
So, shutdown your PC and unplug at mains (to reset the NIC) , then turn it back on. Reboot your router.
If that doesn’t work, try a different network cable.
If you still have problems, download and install the latest driver for your network card (Intel for your network card if the mobo manufacturer doesn’t provide them).
If you still have problems, try a different port on your Router.
If still problems, contact your ISP as they may have a firmware update for the router.
As always, it’s a good idea to make sure you have critical data backed up before installing drivers.
Good luck!
It is MBps, like 10 is standard and works to game to but it could be better. I still havent figured out the problem 
10 MB/s download speeds on a 100 megabit connection are a pretty solid result, i wouldn’t call that an issue anyway. So unless i’ve misunderstood, it doesn’t really sound like there is a problem, just an honest misunderstanding.
Megabytes
Like mentioned earlier, the theoretical maximum that 100 megabit is capable off, is roughly 12.5MBps (8 bits to a byte), and when you aren’t reaching that but “only” 10MB/s instead, it can just as well be due to the other side of the connection, and out of your or your ISPs control.
It’s unfortunate the 2 units are named/abbreviated so similarly, because that always causes a lot of confusion, especially for everyone who isn’t dealing with them on a regular basis.
WoW won’t care
The vast majority of games, including WoW, use surprisingly little bandwidth while playing. I haven’t checked lately, but i doubt it generally even comes close to 1MB/s, so 10 MB/s is really way more than you’d ever need (when it comes to WoW).
Chances are that, watching a 2 minute Youtube video, uses up more bandwidth than the hour you spend playing wow before it.
Latency
Instead, games tend to be much more sensitive/dependent on a good latency (or “ping”), expressed in milliseconds, like 20ms, where unlike megabits or MB/s, lower values are better than higher.
That’s also why wow displays that number when you mouse over the red questionmark button, on the in-game menubar.
Connection Quality
Latency, and the general quality of the connection (lack of any packet loss, decent peering arrangements, …) are what Gamers judge their connection on. And in the era of Fiber (FIOS) being more commonplace, it’s not that unlikely anymore that the 30megabit or 50megabit offerings from an ISP, give an identical wow-experience than their 100megabit, 500megabit and gigabit offerings.
Downloading updates
Of course, whenever there is a new content update / expansion for WoW, downloading that patch with the BNet client is bandwidth intensive. And it’s likely you could reach your max 10MB/s there, which would get you the patch twice as fast compared to someone downloading at 5MB/s.
Is it me or are you posting in the wrong thread, fivefingers?
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