# HeroBox limited to 100Mb ethernet **URL:** \ **Category:** MiniPC\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/herobox-limited-to-100mb-ethernet/5130 "2020-01-09T19:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![RMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@RMC](https://forum.chuwi.com/u/RMC)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/herobox-limited-to-100mb-ethernet/5130/11 "2020-01-22T23:13:17Z")
Can’t definitively say LAN is hardware issue, but my house router & switches are GB throughout. Most rooms were wired with CAT 5e or CAT 6 cabling. All jacks pass on RJ-45 test meter. Hero Box plods along at any jack in house and all other devices get full duplex GB at same locations. Hero WiFi is out-dated Intel AC-3165 chipset - intro’d in 2014 and Intel’s own spec site says it maxes at 433 Mbps for 5GHz. When 10 ft from my AC-1900 router, it will hit that. Plugging in a USB WiFi dongle with a more recent Realtek chipset gets me 867 Mbps at same distance from router. I planned to use the Hero Box as a HTPC and A/V storage server for the rest of the house. Streaming a single instance is not an issue, even with the crippled hardware. Transferring a TB+ of files would have taken 2-5 times longer and streaming to 2 or 3 devices at once not pretty. Currently have both onboard WiFi and LAN networking “disabled” in Windows and am running on USB 3 to GB dongle which gives me full duplex GB and 2-3 times the file transfer speed of the built-in LAN or WiFi. I also find it very interesting that this thread has been open so long without ANY feedback from ChuWi --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.chuwi.com/t/herobox-limited-to-100mb-ethernet/5130)._