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The part that really bugs me though is that this whole situation exists because optical drives aren't a standard part of desktops anymore, yet they continue to ship drivers on DVDs that almost nobody will ever use.

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The board has the network drivers and the Asus Armoury Crate software stored on it, and on first boot the little applet that prompts the user if they'd like to install the network drivers or the software suite.

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Those Z390 boards used a network interface that Windows 10 did not have the drivers for built in.

So it's not that it forces the auto-install, but at least back when it started the option was automatically enabled in the UEFI from the factory so you'd have to remember to disable it before booting into Windows on any new Asus mobo.įrom some articles written about it at the time it first came up, it looks like their intentions were actually good. Importantly, the function can be completely stopped by disabling the 'Asus Armoury Crate' option in the UEFI setup menu. Looks like it showed up initially in 2018 on Z390 boards, unsure if they're still doing it on modern products. Thanks to u/neanderthaul for spotting it! Other manufacturers may include similar bloatware so you need to check.Įdit: it appears that other manufactures may include network managing software as well so if you experience similar issues - check that you did not enable any of those.Įdit 2: if you have similar issues and have disabled or uninstalled network managing software - you may need to restart your computer to see the difference.Įdit 3: the service is called 'cFosSpeed' and not 'CforSpeed' as I wrongly posted initially. TLDR: Dragon Center can dramatically affect your internet connection and the only way to avoid it is to uninstall it along with other bloatware that came with it, namely cFosSpeed. Note: I have never ever changed any settings for LAN Manager.

So my advice to you - avoid MSI Dragon Center like a fire. I must say this is completely unacceptable for MSI to install this malicious bloatware that messes up with your connection. I straight away uninstalled cFosSpeed along with the Dragon Center and once again I have my paid-for 70 Mb/s. I Googled it and found out that it is another crap thingy that messes up with your connection. I went through all the debugging cycle once again without finding anything until I noticed that with MSI Dragon Center another utility was installed - cFosSpeed. It was all fine for a bit until I noticed that this time my connection drops to 7 Mb/s. It was stable and all was good until recently when I updated to the latest version of the Dragon Center.įirst thing I checked after updating is that the LAN Manager is disabled. I disabled it while being on 1 Mb/s and voila - I got back my 70 Mb/s straight away.

Until I noticed a LAN Manager in the Dragon Center which was enabled by default. I spent countless hours trying to debug it, unplugging things one by one from all the sockets in my house, in the hope to find something that interferes with the powerline adapter but all to no avail.

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When connected to WIFI I could still see 70 Mb/s but because there are thick walls between the router and my PC the WIFI connection was never solid and I blamed the drop to 1 Mb/s on the old wiring of the house (remember, I use powerline adapter). My normal speed is 70 Mb/s but it used to drop to 1 Mb/s like a lot to the point where I was on that speed for 90% of the time. I, however, had constant issues with my connection. I have Dragon Center installed from day one as I thought it has a nice feature to check for updates for BIOS and other bits (chipset, etc.). I built my PC about a year ago and the motherboard is MSI MPG Z390. I live in an old house and my WIFI router on the ground floor so I use a powerline adaptor to get 'wired' internet connection on my main PC which is on the first floor. I know this is not hardware related, but I just want to warn people here about my experience with it.

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