Significant speed drop when hardwired into Gigabit network switch versus directly into Nest Puck

[nvanburen]

Hello, 

I connected my PC directly to the Nest router puck and was seeing speeds around 800-900mbps down and up. I needed more than one ethernet port, so I bought a gigabit network switch (Netgear GS305), but now I'm seeing speeds around 80-95mbps down and up... I'm using the same ethernet cable as before (cat 6) and I've unplugged everything else from the switch except the router and PC.

Has anyone else experienced this? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,

Nick

[olavrb]

Switch is unmanaged and gigabit, so it should work just fine.

Sounds like a defect cable or ethernet port somewhere in the chain. When capped to close to 100mbps that's often the case. Test other cables, check pins on ethernet ports.

[nvanburen]

I checked and the cable I was using from the router to the switch was cat 5e. I switched it out for a cat 6 cable and am now getting ~700mbps down and 900mbps up! Much better. Thanks for the help!

[olavrb]

Awesome! You're welcome. 🙂

[LovelyM]

Hello everyone,

@olavrb, your help here is greatly appreciated.

@nvanburen, I'm glad that everything worked out for you. Please let me know if you need anything since I'm going to lock this thread within 24 hours. If you have further concerns, please feel free to create a new post.

Best regards,
Lovely