Hi everyone, I recently got the 5gbps fibre broadband installed in my home, however I wasn't personally home and my parents were but they are old and don't know much about internet or care for it, but for me, a 20 year old gamer, it was a childhood dream come true.
I have my pc wired up to the router via Cat7 Ethernet. It's less than 30 metres long. It's probably less than 10 to be honest.
So why is it that my Cat7 cable which is supposed to withstand 10gbps of speed only cap the router to send my pc (which is of very high end equipment and definitely capable of handling more than 5gbps of internet speed, let alone it has a built in Wifi 6E Card with antennas), 2.5gbps in my internet settings. Upon running an ookla speedtest, and many other speed test websites, it only really shows me 2.0-2.2gbps which obviously isn't even the guaranteed 2.5 AT LEAST. I tried disconnecting every device in my home and left my pc to be the only one connected. Still same problem. I am debating buying a Cat8 Ethernet cable to see if it'll make a difference. Only issue being, I'm upstairs, router is downstairs, I drilled holes in the wall to wire the ethernet through my house to reach my pc. So if I wanted a Cat8, I'd need to redrill and that's effort.
Any suggestions? Or is this a bust?
