Solved New here... just solved my slow connection problem

OK, New here and joined originally to investigate an annoying "slow connection speed " issue I was having with a new install of 11 Pro. Since I have since solved the issue, what better way to 1st post, then to share the results as it was a really long deep dive. It began with speed tests of 30-35 Mbps of my available 400 Mbps, no matter wired or onboard Wi-Fi. Almost like it was metered. (it was not).

Began with the usual suspects, cables, ports, resets, restarts, reboots, uninstall / reinstall network adapters, update network drivers from Gigabyte and network reset, well you get where I`m going here.

Then after hrs. of research on the AIs and forums I went deep with: disabling Flow Control, Maximizing Buffers, Turn Off all Offload Features, disabled Green Ethernet, disabled Metered Detection, Set Speed & Duplex Manually to 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex, Modified set value to 1 in DefaultMediaCost via regedit, Renamed the DefaultAccount key and finally, deleted the entire CloudStore key to force CloudStore to repopulate ! I`m sure I forgot something. Guess what ? wired speed @ 35 Mbps still. And to make it even more stupid .... Plug in any USB WiFi dongle I have and get double (up to 80Gbps) but still no where near the 370-380 I would expect. I have another 24H2 build sitting right beside it with almost the exact same hardware getting 380-400 Mbps.

Out of frustration, I asked another AI I hadn`t previously used. Been using Copilot. Low and behold comes the answer.... under advanced options, delivery optimization I had "allow downloads from other devices" turned on, just to speed up the updating process. Toggled to OFF and instantly had my speed. I`m surprised that I found this nowhere and no bug reports. Hope this helps somebody. Great to be here !

Thank you very much for posting your fix. It will help others because a lot of people find this site.

Thank you ramblin, and welcome to the forum.

Here's a tutorial for Allow downloads from other PCs in case anyone may need it.

Welcome to The Forum @ramblin

On my main computer, Delivery Optimization is turned on with "Devices on my local network" selected.
I guess that must be the default setting, as I don't think I've ever played with that setting.

Maybe I'll try turning it off to see if it makes a difference.

I neglected to mention the hours I spent researching the dreaded 24H2 “smart metric strategy” bug that seems to only exist in the mind of Copilot. I couldn`t find it anywhere else. Seems it doesn't exist.

Thanks for sharing the information.

I have the same setting as yours.



But I do not have any issue with my internet speed.



My ISP-set internet connection speed is 200 Mb/sec for downloads and 20 Mb/sec for uploads. Therefore, your issue must be specific to your system.

suatcini54 said:

Thanks for sharing the information.

I have the same setting as yours.

. Therefore, your issue must be specific to your system.

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Well that would explain why the fix was so hard to find.