The Need for Speed

[kevin_standlee]

Once I managed to get around the slowness of the Ethernet port on the first USB hub by attaching a second hub with an Ethernet port to one of the USB-C ports on the first hub, the next hurdle was determining why it wasn't as fast as it should be. It wasn't the connection to the house (Spectrum) which should be around 200 Mbps. My work machine, connected to the same wired network and going through the same router in the wiring closet, reported speeds near 200, but my personal machine wouldn't go much above 50. (That's download; both machines reported 20 mbps upload, which is what I expected. I was puzzled.

After much trial and error, I realized what the issue was. If you use Google Speed Test, which tests against their servers in the Bay Area, you get 200 Mbps. If you use Oookla SpeedTest, it picks the Spectrum server in Reno, and doesn't get more than 50 Mbps. So aside from the initial problem with the first hub, I have my network back up to speed.

Comments

[a_cubed]

So the Reno area is throttled to Fernley somehow, although further afield you get max speed? Weird.