Any networking professionals here? I’m having a weird problem with my Ethernet connection to my PC.
I pay for 200mbps internet, but on Steam I can reach close to 30MB/s speeds which is roughly 240mbps. It averages around 25-29MB/s when going full speed. However, when it’s going this fast, it continues to drop to 0 for about 30 seconds - a minute, then slowly climbs back up and repeats this whole thing over and over again. Even if I throttle my speeds, it will still do this.
I used ChatGPT for some suggestions, and it suggested to go into command prompt and disable Auto-Tuning. I did so, and my download was much more secure and rarely ever dropped, when it did it immediately regained speed much quicker than before. However now my speeds didn’t manage to go over 18MB/s. It seems like it did the trick when it comes to the dropping speed thing, but of course it’s cutting my top speeds down a bit. So eventually I re-enabled auto-tuning and the original situation came back.
Wondering if this is something I need to contact my ISP about, and ask them to see if they can throttle my internet to a maximum of 200mbps, which sounds a bit ridiculous but I’d rather my speed cap out at that and stay stable, rather than get slightly faster speeds than what I pay for but have my download interrupted every few minutes.