11-20-2023, 08:51 AM
Here’s a weird one. I’ve used LL versions 1 through 5 and never seen this before.
I recently bought a new PC. I’d prepared an LL 6.6 Live USB Boot drive ahead of time.
When I boot from the Live USB and use Chrome, I get full internet speed. I can watch YouTube videos fullscreen at 1080p60fps with no dropped frames. Even 1440p works fine, although 4K does start to stutter a little (which may be more to do with my integrated CPU).
However…
With LL 6.6 installed, everything works fine EXCEPT network speeds. YouTube videos now struggle to play at 480p, sometimes dropping to 360p and I’ve even seen 240p.
Internet speed tests reveal that, instead of the 40mbps that I would normally see, I’m lucky to get more than 2mbps.
This is consistent and repeatable. It occurs with every browser (Chrome, Brave and Firefox).
The only reason I can think of for this is that different ethernet driver(s) are being used on the Live USB and the installed version. I tried another Llinux version to test this (MX) and the results are the same.
Does anyone have an idea what’s going on and how I can fix this?
I recently bought a new PC. I’d prepared an LL 6.6 Live USB Boot drive ahead of time.
When I boot from the Live USB and use Chrome, I get full internet speed. I can watch YouTube videos fullscreen at 1080p60fps with no dropped frames. Even 1440p works fine, although 4K does start to stutter a little (which may be more to do with my integrated CPU).
However…
With LL 6.6 installed, everything works fine EXCEPT network speeds. YouTube videos now struggle to play at 480p, sometimes dropping to 360p and I’ve even seen 240p.
Internet speed tests reveal that, instead of the 40mbps that I would normally see, I’m lucky to get more than 2mbps.
This is consistent and repeatable. It occurs with every browser (Chrome, Brave and Firefox).
The only reason I can think of for this is that different ethernet driver(s) are being used on the Live USB and the installed version. I tried another Llinux version to test this (MX) and the results are the same.
Does anyone have an idea what’s going on and how I can fix this?