Windows 10: Download Speed is very slow compared to available ISP Bandwidth

Windows 10 Pro 2004 (19041.423) - all updated

My ISP has a 56MB/s (poor I know) fibre line to our house.

Every other device connected via wifi or direct (Macbook, iPads, XBOX's, phones) get up to about 40-42 MB/s download which is fine. Very new router too; only 5 months old.

However, my recently upgraded PC is restricting my download to ~5MB/s which is killing me. It's a gaming PC so the downloads are huge and now take forever. This happens both wired and wireless 5G.

I've had this problem for about a month now. I've re-installed Windows from scratch onto a brand new HDD.

Watching loads of Youtube videos and reading all sorts of advice, I still can't get the speed up above this.

A short list of the main things I've done/checked;

- Ensured that the motherboard and network adapter has all the latest updates and set to 1GB/s mode
- Ensured that the Network settings in Win10 don't have any restrictions
- Ran TCP Optimizer from Speedguide
- Disabled Large send offload (both ipV4+6)
- Tried changing ports
- Rebooted router many times
- ISP confirms there is no throttling

I think I've tried everything and I'm at a dead end. Any help would be appreciated.

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I am intermittently experiencing very slow download speeds.

I am intermittently experiencing very slow download speeds. My ISP says that their records show that my slow download speeds are the result of large volumes of data being uploaded. I have tried opening task manager, and I can see on the performance tab
how many Kbps are being sent, but I can't see where they are coming from. I need help determining which apps on my computer are eating up the bandwidth with uploads. I am running windows 10 on a Toshiba Satellite C55-A. thanks!

 

Microsoft store download speeds and windows 10 app load speeds are very slow

Hi Riel,

• The latest update I have showing is "2018-02 Cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64 based system KB4074588"
• I've tried all the below steps suggested by Eeshwar Kumar in this link: Why is Windows Store's download speed so slow?
• And also all by Jane La in the below: Microsoft Store Very Low Download Speeds

Reuben

 

Slow downloading speed

Hi,

Are you on a laptop or a desktop?

Is the computer plugged in to charger when downloading? (laptop)

Courtesy Ronnie Vernon, MVP

The download speed has as much to do with the website server where you are downloading a file from as it does with your internet connection speed.



You can have a very fast internet connection, but experience very slow download speeds if the website has a slow server. This could be caused by very heavy traffic on that server or it may just be a slow server.



One thing you can do to check is to go to the following website and check your speed.

Speedtest.net:

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Try several different test websites there to see the different download/upload speeds.

Compare the results with the website where you are seeing the slow downloads.