ip speed question

[corvairbob]

i have the hp elitebook 745 amd ryzen 3500u g6 laptop and i have it connected to an hp port replicator. up until a few days ago when i did a speed tests i got over 500 mbps up-dn. then yesterday it started to slow down now i'm getting 400 up and 500 dn. if i take the lan out of the port replicator and plug it into the pc it goes back to over 500 up-dn.  so to prove out it is not the pc i plugged into the usb-c port a port replicator that does lan and monitor and i got over 500 up-dn.

so during those tests trying to get the monitor to work with one of my other usb-c port replicators i then plugged in the hp port replicator and the speed went back to over 500 up-dn. then maybe an hour later it was back down to under 400 up-500dn.

could that hp port replicator be failing?

can someone tell me if the hp elitebook 745 with the amd ryzen chips and the usb-c port that has d in a half circle and ss and the lan symbol run a monitor thru that port? the usb-c replicators i have say something about some pcs will not operate monitor thru those devices.  but the hp port replicator is running a monitor.  thanks

[banhien]

@corvairbob 

Can you run speed test directly form your machine (no dock) ? Normally DL speed should be faster. For example (my contract (I pay for) is 50/20 - the result is very close) - no complaint

                 

Regards.

[corvairbob]

i did do that as i stated that in the post. up to a few days ago with the pc connected to the hp port replicator i got over 500 up-dn. then monday we called frontier and got our payment lowered because we are new customers and they were charging us old customer prices.  then tuesday i did a speed test and it was 350 up-550dn   so to test this i disconnected the hp port replicator and connected the pc directly to the network and the speed went back to over 500 up-dn.  also on my phone the eero app tells me i'm getting over 500 up-dn.   so i have 2 usb-c port type devices that i then plugged into the pc and the lan and the speed was over 500 up-dn  and one usb-c device ran my monitor but did not have any extra usb ports and the other usb-c device would not run my monitor. i believe that is a defective unit.

anyway i wondering if the hp port replicator i'm using now is starting to fail and having the network speed starting to drop is the first sign of that failure. thanks.

[corvairbob]

thanks for that info. however from the pc i get 480 dn and 596 up    and from the dock i get 460 dn and 500up with the dock connected. also when the pc is plugged into the dock i get a tv type ip icon and when i plug into the pc directly i get the wifi icon.  i have no clue why the icon changes. so i guess i may have to live with this. it is way faster than comcast. but i was just wondering why the difference. in a few days the dock will start running a bit slower again  

i think that eero unit may be not up to speed. i have one more i will swap out.  it would be nice if i could plug my linksys ea7500 router directly to the frontier modem. i may just do that and see if it works. but now it is in bridge mode. so i would have to reset it to get it back into router mode and then figure out how to get the ip to be what my home network is now so i do not have to go thru 20 cameras and change their ip to match the xxx.xxx.1.0     now it is xxx.xxx.0.0