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Originally Posted by Mr K
You may well be right.
All my households pc's are on a wired connection anyway and are getting about 94MB through the Netgear N150 router; close enough to 100MB for me.
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Nobody else seems to have picked this up, so I'll throw in my 2p. Your router's wired ports are all only rated to 100Mbps. There are - generally, these days - two types of Network Interface Cards (NICs): 100Mbps and 1000Mbps/Gigabit. If one or all of the clients on the wired LAN, or the router itself, are running at 100Mbps then the whole network slows down to match.
Because of DHCP overheads and NAT etc, generally you'll never get more than 96Mbps out of a 100Mbps NIC or switch. When you upgrade your router you'll want one that has gigabit ports and to check your wired devices for gigabit compatibility. Once everything is gigabit you will see your speed rise to much closer to the full 100Mbps, or even slightly more (VM give the overheads on cable connections).
You can pick up gigabit NICs for literally a couple of quid these days, though generally speaking proper Intel pci(e) cards (eg Intel Pro 1000 GT or MT) are best. You can get Intel cards new for about £25 each or find them used (ex-business use) cheap on eBay. That way you future proof yourself for if/when you get 152Mbps or higher as VM upgrades roll out.