when you allow to autospeed, it's hard to tell what speed the hardware link is running at.
Actual Speed:
The good way to check the actual connection speed USED to be Network Utility, But in Big Sur and later, Apple has deprecated network Utility and now you have to use a Terminal command to see your actual connection speed. First, you need to know what en number the link is. then you use a command like this one, substituting the actual en number.
my main Ethernet connection uses BSD name en5 (as shown in) :
menu > about this Mac > (system report) > network:
ifconfig en5 | grep media
with this as my output:
media: autoselect (10Gbase-T <full-duplex,flow-control>)
For Gigabit Ethernet, you should get this instead:
media: 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control>
Errors detected:
To see if an Ethernet link is throwing more than a handful of initial errors, you can use Terminal command:
netstat -I en5
This is the resulting output. Counters are In-packets, In-errors, Out-packets, Out-Errors, Collisions. There should never be more than handful of errors from starting up, and in most cases, NONE.
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
en5 8163 <Link#4> 00:01:d2:1a:00:dd 696697 0 484301 0 0
en5 8163 grantsmacpr fe80:4::461:ea0d: 696697 - 484301 - -
en5 8163 192.168.0/23 192.168.0.204 696697 - 484301 - -