Comment 34 for bug 1785171

I am having similar problems with Dell Optiplex 7060 running Ubuntu 18.04.2. I think the problem is connected with the chipset they are using since other machines are fine.

The network is extremely slow with the e1000e module provided by Ubuntu (3.2.6-k). Compiling the latest driver from Intel solves this, but I can not maintain this as a solution across all the clients.

# inxi -Nxxx
Network: Card: Intel Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bb

# speedtest
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 0.07 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 488.32 Mbit/s

# inxi -Nxxx
Network: Card: Intel Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM
           driver: e1000e v: 3.4.2.1-NAPI bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bb

# speedtest
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 592.69 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 633.40 Mbit/s