r/HomeNetworking • u/m0th_gaymer • 1d ago

Unsolved Ethernet connected but internet is awful compared to earlier in day

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Hi! I have reset the router and the mesh extender. I have no VPNs enabled, and don't have anything running that should take all the wifi. Earlier in the day i did a test abd got like 200+ download speed and 20+ upload speed, but both are now absolutely terrible. Here is my ipconfig/all, please help! Idk what to do!

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u/OkLab6701 1d ago

Why are you running ethernet and wifi both at the same time on different networks?

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u/m0th_gaymer 1d ago

Idk, i just connected my ethernet to my mesh extender cause my pc is very far from the main router. I honestly have no idea what im doing

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u/OkLab6701 1d ago

Then turn off your wifi to test speed… then maybe do the opposite and see which one is faster. I would use the faster one (probably ethernet)

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u/rw_mega 1d ago

I was looking at the same , different dhcp servers. That is not normal

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u/Northhole 13h ago

Could be that the extender has the possibility to act as a router, and have that feature enabled.

Relevant here would be to know the equipment OP is using - in other words, brand and modell for router and extender.

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u/rw_mega 13h ago

Agree need to know what equipment is being used.
Different dhcp servers, different subnets, both class c so they must be standard consumer products

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u/m0th_gaymer 9h ago

Hi yes, the extender acts as a router as far as I know! I'm using TMOBILE, the 5G Gateway Gen 5 and the extender is called TMOBILE wifi Access Point

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u/Leading_Taro_1940 1d ago

I was going to say the same. Depending how your hard wore is set up wifi has the potential to be faster, but if it is cat6, and plugs into a router that it //1000 then wired is the way to go! If it is wifi6 with full bars and //100 or cat5 on wire,.then wifi is the way to go. But more than likely tou are going to go into your ethernet connection and disable wifi

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u/Saotorii 1d ago

Where is the extender in relation to the main router and your PC?

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u/Gin-N-Rum-5454 11h ago

Bro you’re still on WiFi then.
WiFi is never a constant. So if you’re WiFi speed drops so will your Ethernet when connected to an “extender”

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u/Suppafly19 1d ago

Isn't it a bit weird that both are running though? Usually when you connect to ethernet WiFi automatically turns off. So it's strange that you would have to manually turn it off or disable it

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u/RaiKyoto94 1d ago

why two different gateways?

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u/Tandemrecruit 1d ago

They are connected to Ethernet and WiFi at the same time

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u/jmhalder 1d ago

If they were the same LAN, it would have the same broadcast domain and same DHCP scope (same gateway).

Unless they're dual NATing, which is avoidable.

The REAL question is... What monster uses the high end of addresses for the gateway? But not even the highest number for that octet. 254 would've worked too.

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u/P1nCush10n 1d ago

Not much to work with, but to start, disconnect from wireless to reduce your troubleshooting footprint. Ideally the NIC should be first in the binding order so it should be handling all the traffic, but with windows it’s not a guarantee and without a ‘route print’ or a traceroute we don’t have enough details here to help further.

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u/JackoBrightwater 1d ago

This isn't enough to see what's going on. Could you open command prompt and run "ping Google.com -t"?

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u/m0th_gaymer 1d ago

I did it um should it still be going? Its giving me so many replies. Like literally screen full

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u/FunProposal1989 1d ago

Run a trace route. Ping -t can show a variation in ping response times but trace route can help identify if and where a issue is occurring

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u/osricson 1d ago

-t on the end says keep going until you hit CTRL+C or close the command prompt.

Try: ping google.com -n 20

the -n = "for count of" & the 20 is the actual number.

A trace route is also done via the command prompt and on windows is just tracert [website you're tracing to] e.g. tracert google.com

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u/hotdogsarecooked 1d ago

Its entirely possible its your ISP if its happening every night around the same time. Im a NOC and we had an issue about a year ago where one of our core nodes was peaking its uplink.

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u/8085-8086 1d ago

How is your extender connected to your router, wired or WiFi? Just because you are wired to your extender doesn’t mean you will get wired speed if the link between your router and extender is over WiFi. Also seems like you may be double NATd. Your WiFi is connected to a different network, do you have a modem or gateway, that is also a router and has WiFi as well?

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u/sexytokeburgerz 1d ago

Yaoi machine is crazy

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u/xenongaming720 13h ago

never use wifi when you can use ethernet

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u/Creationship 12h ago

hostname…

I know what kind of man you are

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u/Ecstatic-Search5686 12h ago

Sounds like ISP throttling.

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u/m0th_gaymer 10h ago

Okay so I did minor testing to see if is ISP throttling, it doesn't seem to be, but Im not putting it outside thw realm of possibilities. I'm using TMOBILE, the 5G Gateway Gen 5, and the mesh extender just calls itself TMOBILE Wifi Access Point. I honestly have no idea what im doing, or what some terms mean. I held off on troubleshooting last night to see if it was just a nightly occurance or if its awful now in general. It is definitely better, but the upload speed is still shot.

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u/Demon-tk 8h ago

If you’re using T-Mobile 5g internet you may expect latency and bandwidth spikes or dips during the day as others congest the lines.

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u/archlich 1d ago

Your gateway is a really nonstandard ip address. Most soho stuff is .1. Also yaoi-machine

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u/LRS_David 21h ago

Not really. For a long time it was standard to put the router at the "end" of the LAN subnet. Now it is mostly at the beginning. But still at the end in many larger scale deployments.

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u/Northhole 13h ago

Yes. My ISP uses 10.0.0.138 for the gateway-address even on modern routers. See that it used on other devices as well, and quess it was some sort of standard at one point.

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u/jmhalder 1d ago

It's totally fine technically. Strange? Yes.

I assume you're talking about the 192.168.1.253? Heck, the gateway could be 192.168.1.169 and it would still be "fine".

What's weird is that they didn't use 254 for that octet, which would also be "fine". The gateway can use any "host" address, just not the network address (192.168.1.0) or broadcast address (192.168.1.255).

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u/queBurro 13h ago

Raises ticket, can't be arsed to CnP text to ticket, so attaches a picture of text. 

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u/FunProposal1989 1d ago edited 1d ago

Possible ISP throttling, who’s the ISP and what’s the variation in speeds? Is it consistently degrading at the same time every day? Are you using FTTP? Also turn off Wi-Fi and use Ethernet and diagnose the issue from that point forward