FrankS

Final update. I followed the advice of Ghot & purchased a Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter, USB to RJ45. Internet speed is 320Mbps up &...

My Dell Laptop is the same, 100Mbps. My Dell laptop is the same, it's faster on WiFi...over 400 Mbps on WiFi.

I think the manufacturers probably thought... "on a laptop, they're gonna use WiFi, so let's use up all those old FE (100 Mbps)...

A CAT6 cable should operate at full speed up to 328 ft. in length. In case that matters. :-) 50 foot CAT6 cable 100 foot CAT6 cable...

They do make things like this... sort of an external NIC Gigabit Ethernet to USB adapter And it seems your laptop has... Two USB...

Yes. You are limited to 100Mbps. Wishing you well.

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller, is an FE (Fast Ethernet 100Mbps) controller. So the maximum Ethernet speed you will get is...

@FrankS Unless I'm missing something, it appears to be your NIC (Network Interface Card). Inspiron 5593 ~ NIC 10/100

To post a screenshot on this forum... 1. Take the screenshot, edit it as desired, save to your desktop as .png or .jpg (max. size = 2MB)...

The wired adapter in the computer should be Gigabit-rated as well as the Router. The adapters in my 2-year-old Notebook:

It may depend upon your Router. Ethernet and Wireless/Wi-Fi don't determine the speed of the Internet, only between computer and the...

Yeah, that would work but a Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter, USB to RJ45 would be neater & cheaper for my purposes. Thanks anyway.

That's interesting & doesn't cost much at all. I may invest in one of those. Although since I'll only use ethernet when relatively close...

Ah, well that's a disappointment. Luckily the WiFi is up to speed & I guess that's one less cable. Thanks for help.

What are you saying? That the NIC is not up to the task?