My internet can be very slow on my Windows 8.1 PC. All my other devices on speedtest.net show about 35 Mbps, this PC occasionally gets there but will very quickly drop to under 5 Mbps, and every 20-30 minutes the internet will drop altogether for about 20 seconds. I also have a Ubuntu partition on this same PC, and with this same hardware it maintains 35 Mbps.
This behaviour happens with my default ethernet (via powerline) connection, and also a wifi usb adapter.
I have the very latest driver (Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver) from my motherboards website.
I also tried the Windows 7 driver from here. I've no idea if it's the correct driver, all I did was google "Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver" and it took me there. When I installed it my speed was up to 35 Mbps for a while, then later it slowed to a crawl again. But this also happens when I do a fresh install of the up-to-date driver from the MSI website.
Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do?
Windows 8.1 64 bit
AMD A8 5600k processor
MSI FM2-A55M-E33 motherboard
8gb ram
This behaviour happens with my default ethernet (via powerline) connection, and also a wifi usb adapter.
I have the very latest driver (Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver) from my motherboards website.
I also tried the Windows 7 driver from here. I've no idea if it's the correct driver, all I did was google "Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver" and it took me there. When I installed it my speed was up to 35 Mbps for a while, then later it slowed to a crawl again. But this also happens when I do a fresh install of the up-to-date driver from the MSI website.
Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do?
Windows 8.1 64 bit
AMD A8 5600k processor
MSI FM2-A55M-E33 motherboard
8gb ram
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1