Hi, does anyone know if the Asus ROG G501VW supports gigabit internet? I've used two different USB 3.0 gigabit ethernet adapters and could only reach 500 up/down. A TIME technician said that the bottleneck is the adapter but I'm not sure if this is the case. Would a USB-C gigabit ethernet adapter improve my speed? Thanks

I tested with a Macbook, this is what I got. Using a 68U and it's plugged in the gigabit port, cable is a 10m CAT 7. The technician tested my cable on his laptop and he got 900+ down 500 up.


This post has been edited by TableBottom: Oct 15 2018, 09:02 PM

I actually did a direct pppoe a few days ago during a call with TIME support. The speed was actually slower LOL, like around 100-200 Mbps down/up

Hi, yep was upgraded from the 300Mbps plan. Restarted again, speedtest to time server got 450 down, 496 up. But when I use fast.com can get 530 down 850 up (I thought max upload speed was only 500? haha)

Selangor. Yeah it's weird, gonna go back Digital Mall this weekend to switch the USB 3.0 ethernet adapter to a USB-C ethernet adapter to see if it makes any difference.

5Ghz with a distance of <1m from router I get 400 down/up
Yeah tried with old 5e cable got more or less the same, 300-400 down/up

Oh so even though when I'm on the 1gbps plan, max speed I could get is ~500? Switched my USB 3.0 ether adapter with a USB-C one and the speeds are still more or less the same.

Ah okay, thanks. Still trying to figure out what's the bottleneck. Even got my 2 extra CAT 7 cables that arrived today so all cables now using CAT 7, still no improvement.

Interesting, after disabling mine I managed to reach 626 down, usually getting around 400. Hopefully we'll find a proper solution soon haha

Yep running W10. It says Connected to USB 3.0 (even though it's a USB-C device)

Yep, slowly getting there

Ah, thanks for the clarification

Guys I've been searching for my bottleneck and I think I've found it. Before this I changed my ethernet adapter to a USB-C one and switched all cables to CAT 7 but the speed difference was marginal.

My bottleneck was Kaspersky. Was using Kaspersky Internet Security 2019 before this and my speed averaged around 650-700Mbps download. Switched to Bitdefender Total Security 2019 and these are my results:

Bitdefender enabled with Bitdefender Firewall
Speedtest: 818Mbps down 496Mbps up
Fast: 1.1Gbps down 480Mbps up

Bitdefender enabled with Windows Firewall
Speedtest: 806Mbps down 495Mbps up
Fast: 1.2Gbps down 470Mbps up

Bitdefender enabled with no firewall
Speedtest: 804Mbps down 500Mbps up
Fast: 1.1Gbps down 500Mbps up

Bitdefender disabled with no firewall
Speedtest: 786Mbps down 499Mbps up
Fast: 1.1Gbps down 460Mbps up

Note: All Speedtest tests were using TIME Shah Alam server

Your results may vary, if you see the previous pages I posted my iperf results and the max transfer speed I got was around 900Mbps so getting 818Mbps download is alright for now. So if you're using Kaspersky and experiencing slow speeds then can give Bitdefender a shot, let me know if it works/doesn't work for you

Haha thanks, I can chill for now

Yoooo

ah i'm not the only one then

Is anyone else having intermittent downtime in Damansara Perdana area? LAN status connected but speed will drop drastically.

Damansara Perdana area apparently having 'splitter error' according to the Level 2 CS that called me. My 1Gbps plan only getting <100Mbps download and upload, tested on LAN. Is anyone else having similar speed degradations in the area?