I happened to notice that my connection speed was only 10.0 Mbps. But other computers in my home were operating at full speed, ~100 Mbps. The slow computer is connected by wire to the router. I wasn't sure when or why or for how long this situation existed. I looked at the slow computer's network adapter and clicked on Properties. I ventured over to the Advanced tab. There I found a detail property called "WOL Speed". It was set to "10 Mbps First", so I changed it to "100 Mpbs First" and bingo, it corrected the problem.
I am still a bit mystified though. I presume WOL means "Wake-on-LAN". I'm just not at all clear on what exactly that means and what precisely it governs. If you've got nothing better to do than to spread enlightenment then explain this to me. I don't get what "waking-on-LAN" has to do with my connection speed since the computer is normally awoken manually. Yes, I set it to Standby or Hibernate pretty frequently. But what about when I reboot it -- would it go directly to the 10.0 Mbps speed, I wonder, based solely on that obscure adapter property setting??
Of course it's no biggie and I've resolved my issue. Thanks.
I am still a bit mystified though. I presume WOL means "Wake-on-LAN". I'm just not at all clear on what exactly that means and what precisely it governs. If you've got nothing better to do than to spread enlightenment then explain this to me. I don't get what "waking-on-LAN" has to do with my connection speed since the computer is normally awoken manually. Yes, I set it to Standby or Hibernate pretty frequently. But what about when I reboot it -- would it go directly to the 10.0 Mbps speed, I wonder, based solely on that obscure adapter property setting??
Of course it's no biggie and I've resolved my issue. Thanks.