I had the gigabit internet installed about a week ago and I was getting about 350 mb/s download and up to 80 mb/s upload and I couldn't find the default login/password for the Technicolor TC4400 on google to find my signal levels. Turns out there is a post buried deep in the 1 gig internet topic on these forums. At first I was trying 192.168.0.1 which was confusing me because there was an actual login prompt on that screen. Turns out the actual IP you need to use is 192.168.100.1 with the USER being admin and the password being password.
Technicolor TC4400 Default Login -
User: admin
Password: password
IP: 192.168.100.1
Now that I got that figured out I found out that my signal levels were bad "bonded to 9 downstream channels" so I looked for a splitter on my line and removed it. That fixed my signal levels for the most part "bonded to 16 downstream but no ofdm" and now my speed test was about 444-450mb/s download every time. What was weird about this is my computer should easily support 1 gig since it has 1 gig ethernet and the hard drive is an m.2 hard drive which does about 700 mB/s read/write easily.
I remembered back when I had bad signals I tested my phone on the 5ghz band at the same time as the computer and the total was only 400 mb/s. I tried this again and got 450 mb/s download on my computer and about 330 mb/s download on my phone totaling about 780 mb/s. That tells me there was something wrong with my computer. After tons of digging, changing the auto tune settings using command prompt, limiting my "reserve bandwith" using gpedit.msc, and changing my speed/duplex settings for my nic card to 1gig/full duplex. After all that it stayed the same.
I came across an obscure post about CFos speed traffic shaping for wireless cards and remembered that when I reinstalled my network driver it also installed a traffic shaper. The traffic shaper that was installed was for my ASRock motherboard called ASRock XFast Lan which was made by CFos... I uninstalled that and I am getting 784mb/s download.
I'm mainly posting this because there are a lot of garbage posts out there and I want someone to be able to find this and help them out easier than rummaging through a million websites like I did.
I still have a tech coming tomorrow to fix the ofdm channel not bonding thanks to MediacomChad and I will post a picture of my channel list since I can't find one with the OFDM channel connected.
TL;DR: if you have a fast connection, find your traffic shaping software and uninstall it. Traffic shaping is only useful if you have limited bandwidth.
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