Why is my Cox Gigabit Service CRAWLING???
I would sure appreciate some guidance here. I try to keep up but I can get over my head pretty quickly so please bear with me. My problem is that, for well over a year, I have been paying Cox for Gig...
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Thanks for the great advice. I have some homework to do and will report back.
Quick note: I have an older Lenova G580 laptop (intel I3/4gb memory/hardrive) that a swapped in an SSD and replaced the battery to bring it back to life. I changed it from Windows to Chrome so it had less overhead. Makes a handy web browser. However, even hardwired, the internet maxes out at about 80mbps.
My guess is that G580 has a 10/100Mbps NIC. The specs show it can go both ways depending on what SKU you got.
A little slow to connect the dots. Since the 580 was available with 10/100 or 10/100/1000, I realize it makes sense to assume RickO has a 10/100/1000. Thus, the 250 number is almost certainly NOT NIC limited, which aligns with to Darkatt's remarks. I'm so used to a wide variety of speeds on devices (for instance even the Google speakers have 2 different speeds, cameras have 2, displays, etc.) that I didn't make the logical connection to the probably throughput on the Lenovo NIC. Thanks for the insight!
