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yaiko

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Registered: 2023-06-25

Posts: 38

Download speed is very slow

Even with an Ethernet cable connected download speed is very slow, why?
It is about 50 Mbps when it has to be at least 500 Mbps.

My `lscpi`:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core 4-core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [Coffee Lake H] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 07)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

I tried installing `r8168` but is still the same.

Anybody knows how to fix this?
Thanks!.

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,387

Re: Download speed is very slow

You're ISP is scamming you?
Your cat has chewed up the cable?
Cosmic rays?

1. What download?
Try the linode speedtest from Get ABBS for an actual metric (cause the remote host could be slow or, with your results, you're conflating bits and bytes)

2. How do you configure your network?
Post the output of

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

3. Which NIC are you actually using?

ip a; ip r

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yaiko

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Registered: 2023-06-25

Posts: 38

Re: Download speed is very slow

You're ISP is scamming you?
Your cat has chewed up the cable?
Cosmic rays?

1. What download?
Try the linode speedtest from Get ABBS for an actual metric (cause the remote host could be slow or, with your results, you're conflating bits and bytes)

2. How do you configure your network?
Post the output of

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

3. Which NIC are you actually using?

ip a; ip r

Hardware is ok.

I'm trying to download a game from Steam, I've red they had a problem with downloads, but none of these solutions worked.

With ABBS I get around 1-10MB/s:

$ ./abbs net speed

1) Newark, USA                       7) Sidney, Australia
2) Singapore                         8) Atlanta, USA
3) London, UK                        9) 東京都 (Tokyo), 日本国 (Japan)
4) Frankfurt, Deutschland           10) मबई (Bombay), Bhārat (India)
5) Dallas, USA                      11) Fremont, USA
6) Toronto, Canada

Enter location: 5

1) 100MB
2) 1GB

Select size: 2

/dev/null                22%[=====>                        ] 222.93M  1.56MB/s    eta 2m 30s

But in speedtest.net I get a max of 520 Mbps of download which is ok, so I think this is more a problem with Steam...

2.

bluetooth.service                        | bluetooth.target.wants
dbus-org.bluez.service                   | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service   | system
dnsmasq.service                          | multi-user.target.wants
gcr-ssh-agent.socket                     | sockets.target.wants
getty@tty1.service                       | getty.target.wants
gnome-keyring-daemon.socket              | sockets.target.wants
NetworkManager.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service       | network-online.target.wants
optimus-manager.service                  | graphical.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket                    | sockets.target.wants
pipewire-media-session.service           | pipewire.service.wants
pipewire-session-manager.service         | user
pipewire.socket                          | sockets.target.wants
pulseaudio.socket                        | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target                         | multi-user.target.wants
reset_xorg_conf.service                  | multi-user.target.wants
systemd-timesyncd.service                | sysinit.target.wants
xdg-user-dirs-update.service             | default.target.wants

3.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 40:b0:76:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d0:ab:d5:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname wlp0s20f3
    inet 192.1xx.x.x/24 brd 192.1xx.x.xxx scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlo1
       valid_lft 599409sec preferred_lft 599409sec
    inet6 2800:150:131:1f56:6a2f:d34d:xxxx:xxxx/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 3599sec preferred_lft 3599sec
    inet6 fe80::b83c:33e7:xxxx:xxx/64 scope link noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
default via 192.1xx.x.x dev wlo1 proto dhcp src 192.1xx.x.x metric 600
192.1xx.x.x/24 dev wlo1 proto kernel scope link src 192.1xx.x.x metric 600

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,387

Re: Download speed is very slow

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2143605 ?

Though

ABBS I get around 1-10MB/s

in speedtest.net I get a max of 65 MB/s

Is worrysome, did you test a different location?

Also, can you test the behavior on enp3s0 instead of the wifi?

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yaiko

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Registered: 2023-06-25

Posts: 38

Re: Download speed is very slow

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2143605 ?

Though

ABBS I get around 1-10MB/s

in speedtest.net I get a max of 65 MB/s

Is worrysome, did you test a different location?

Also, can you test the behavior on enp3s0 instead of the wifi?

Thanks!, following this guide:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tcp-tuning/

And adding into ` ~/.steam/steam/steam_dev.cfg`

@nClientDownloadEnableHTTP2PlatformLinux 0
@fDownloadRateImprovementToAddAnotherConnection 1.0

Seems to have increased the download speed almost to 500 Mbps.