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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Discovered this on a laptop after running the cable. Wifi was getting 250mbps vs 10/100 speeds

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    A TV I mean why not, but on a Laptop? Is it from the nineties O_o ?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    My canon ink tank type printer from mid COVID era is the same, didn't realise it was only 10/100 on the wired port until I was looking at the switch one day and wondered why I had a yellow light instead of green, was about to run a new network cable until I checked the printer

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Printers really don't need even 100mbps though. They're just not fast enough to spit out the prints your sending even at those speeds. So I get it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I get it too, but it was a bit of a shock given that the selling points for everything is bigger better faster stronger, otherwise why would people upgrade. It's like finding something with a micro USB port on it instead of type c

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Could be something wrong with a cable? A damaged cable can downgrade your connection from gigabit to 100mb

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Or to 10mbps, half duplex. I've witnessed this. My former company was trying to sell a client a new server because it was too slow when I noticed it was only operating at 10/half, instead of the 1000/full that both it and the switch was capable of. Some testing later, and the problem was at the server side cable termination, a quick re-termination and they were up to gigabit. Grabbed a spare run to the switch and connected another cable after verifying it was good and the company went from 10M/half to a LAG of 2000/full in the matter of about an hour.

    The speed complaints stopped.

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