ethernet status says i have 1gbps. only getting 1.8

#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 DRIVERS#
#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 PATCH#
#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 FULL#

While this may not have been the direct cause, engrpiman2's post on Ars Technica was what finally jostled my brain to think to swap transceivers. Then check transceivers, then jacks, terminations, and finally cabling.

#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 DRIVERS#

Then check your drivers and device CPU/statistics.

#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 PATCH#

but only sometimes.Īlways start with the patch cables. In that case, it turns out one of the 8 wires in one keystone jack was rubbing against the shielded keystone casing, and causing the entire cable run to downrate to 100 Mbps. I'm reminded of a time earlier this year when one of my Macs was getting 100 Mbps sometimes, and 10 Gbps others, seemingly depending on the direction the wind was blowing.

#ETHERNET STATUS SAYS I HAVE 1GBPS. ONLY GETTING 1.8 FULL#

Switching to MikroTik's own S+RJ10 transceiver resulted in full 2.3 Gbps bidirectional throughput. In my case, I was using a transceiver that I'd tested and had working with 2.5 and 10G devices, but in some cases, for some reason, it would only work one way. So yeah, when you're diagnosing network problems, don't leave any stone unturned. When connected through one of these, I'd get 2.3 Gbps one way, but the other direction would bottleneck at less than 500 Mbps, which was really horrible for editing video and backups to my NAS. Thinking there's no possible way both MikroTik units could make one port work poorly at random, I finally ordered a new batch of RJ-45 transceivers, and started swapping them out (after going through the whack-a-mole with cables and devices to no avail).Īnd I found, after all that testing, that the FLYPROFiber SFP-10G-T-30M transceivers-at least some revisions-had trouble when a device negotiated 2.5G speeds through it.Īs can be seen above, the FLYPRO transceivers were being identified as 'multi-mode fiber', which also seemed suspect, since they are, indeed, copper RJ45 transceivers! Then a few weeks ago, a viewer of my YouTube channel offered me a MikroTik CRS309 switch for a song, so I had to take him up on the offer. So I shelved the MikroTik switch for the time being. I plugged everything into it, forgoing fiber or DACs, and the problem went away.

I tested with multiple NICs, I tested both ports of my NAS, and I tested with multiple known-working-to-10G Cat6 patch cables.Īnd in every case, I was getting this asymmetric speed.Įventually I bought a QNAP QSW-M2108-2C switch instead, which has 8 built-in 2.5G RJ-45 jacks, and 2 dual-mode SFP+/Copper 10G interfaces.

In the case of the NAS, which has 2.5G Ethernet, I was getting between 50 and 500 Mbps to it, with no consistency in the throughput. my Mac to the NAS), but then if I tested it in reverse (NAS to my Mac), I would get horrible speeds-but only if I was using a 2.5 Gbps NIC on one end. One thing I found very strange was that sometimes, I would get in a situation where a particular device (Pi, my Mac, a Windows PC, or even my NAS) would get the full expected speed in one direction (e.g. The switch uses SFP+ jacks, and so I was testing a variety of connections-SFP+ to duplex fiber, SFP+ to RJ-45 copper, and SFP+ DAC (Direct Attach Cable) cables. There could be a thousand reasons something like this happens, but here's my situation:Ī few months ago, when I was testing 10 Gigabit networking on the Raspberry Pi, I noticed something funny when I was doing iperf3 speed tests between devices connected through my MikroTik CRS305 10G switch.

Ethernet status says i have 1gbps. only getting 1.8