Hi recently i have a problem with the Ethernet Controller Killer E2400...

YceBreaK
YceBreaK Member Posts: 42 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
edited November 2023 in 2018 Archives
Hi idk but yesterday i noticed that i download a game with 10mb/s and i usually have 80/90mb/s download...
Well at speedtest showed me around 90Mb/s even tho i have 1GB/s internet connection and i scored before 900Mb/s.
I reinstalled my driver, nothing new. What I noticed is that at Speed & Duplex I can only select 100Mb/s and Auto-Negotiate...

How can I fix that ?

Answers

  • vanadium
    vanadium Member Posts: 68 Devotee WiFi Icon
    What makes you think it's your ethernet controller which limits the bandwidth? Have you tried to transfer a file to another computer?
  • TECH_MAN
    TECH_MAN Ally Posts: 453
    Hi YceBreak,

    Recently all MSI Gaming, MPower and XPower class mainboards as well as MSI Gaming notebooks do come with Killer Lan or even Killer WLan. Many reports about issues related to the Killer NICs can be found and result in a lot of frustration for the users.

    Actually these problems (bluescreens, lags, bandwith limitations, connection losses, blocking entire net communication even of non Killer devices) aren't caused by the Killer NIC itself but the Killer software suite (meanwhile called Qualcomm Atheros Performance Suite) which controls the networking. 
    Unfortunately Qualcomm Atheros (as well as the Killer software packages available on MSI sites) does not allow to just install the driver but forces to install the software to install the driver.

    To fix all issues while keeping the NIC fully functional one should use pure drivers without the suite which are offered >>here<< 

    Download this and decompress the archive.

    Now we need to get rid of the Suite. To do so we'll use the Killer Cleaner (>>64bit<< / >>32bit<<):

      

    This will completely remove the Killer software including the driverwhich is safer than just uninstalling the software via Windows (which will still also remove the driver). As you will lose the ethernet connection you should have the driver downloaded above ready to install.

    It doesn't come with an installer but you can just enter Windows device manager after a reboot and choose to update the driver for the unknown ethernet device listed there. Now just point to the driver directory and Windows will do the rest. Afterwards you have a perfectly working ethernet without any software fuss.

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  • Have you installed Killer network control panel and set your internet speed in its app?

    I had issues until I used the control panel.

    What's your model for your system?
    - Hotel Hero
  • YceBreaK
    YceBreaK Member Posts: 42 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    Links don't work.

    Not Found

    The requested URL "/drivers/KillerCleaner_64bit.exe" was not found on this server.

    Also are very old.

    Red-Sand said:
    Have you installed Killer network control panel and set your internet speed in its app?

    I had issues until I used the control panel.

    What's your model for your system?


    "What's your model for your system?" what do you mean exactly, also my internet connection is 1GB/s not 93MB/s

  • YceBreaK said:
    Links don't work.

    Not Found

    The requested URL "/drivers/KillerCleaner_64bit.exe" was not found on this server.

    Also are very old.

    Red-Sand said:
    Have you installed Killer network control panel and set your internet speed in its app?

    I had issues until I used the control panel.

    What's your model for your system?


    "What's your model for your system?" what do you mean exactly, also my internet connection is 1GB/s not 93MB/s


    I meant... what model is your system (laptop) lol.

    Also are you entering your values correctly?
    You know Killer Network Control uses Megabits* not to be confused with megabytes*.
    - Hotel Hero
  • Here is proper values for 1gb/s

    Dont feel bad bro.. I did the SAME thing lol.



    - Hotel Hero