Using the AX88U on 500/75 with no issues with speed. Always just over 500 down and 80 up. Rock solid and wouldn't go near anything else now since using.

Also on Merlin FW showing:

HW acceleration Runner: Enabled - Flow Cache: Enabled

Edited by BuckleZ (Mon 27-Dec-21 23:17:14)

I noticed I have trouble saturating my 900/110 line. It just about manages but frequently dips and I'm wondering if it could possibly be the BT router? Everything is wired with cat6 and I have a modern PC with a realtek 2.5g lan. No matter what I throw at it torrents, whatever. Those dips are always there. 960 mbps > dip to 800 > 960 > dip to 800. It just does this over and over I've tried all sorts of different things from rclone and sftp to the various gaming distribution platforms (steam, xbox etc)

Just to note I'm the only person in my area who has FTTP so far. (pole is in my garden)

Edited by Xuse (Tue 28-Dec-21 10:57:45)

Dips like that are pretty normal. I don't think you have anything to concern yourself about.

If you are expecting a dead flat line at 940 Mbps you will be disappointed to find that is not probable or possible in reality. Ditto with upload.

Agreed, I think people need to adjust their expectations slightly now that broadband connections are reaching a gigabit. It's still a contended service like all broadband has been, but the numbers are so high now that a 10-15% drop at certain points in peak hours becomes "I've lost 100Mbps" rather than "I've lost 6Mbps". A town could have 2000 subscribers on a 1Gbps service, you can guarantee there isn't 2Tbps of capacity to get that data out of the exchange.

The vast majority of the time you will be able to get the headline rate, but if you want to run speed tests and always see the 900+Mbps number then that's what leased lines are for (and then it presumes the capacity is in place on the route to the speed test server).

I guess I'm just a bit suspicious with the poor installation I received. I might just be looking for problems, but last few days ping is so much higher in general things feel sluggish even though the actual throughput is high. To elaborate a bit I mean the loading of webpages, things like seeking on youtube which were all near instant when I first got FTTP installed. Now seem to hang or buffer which seems crazy for a connection like this. Maybe my expectations were too high?

afaik you can't run thinkbroadbands quality monitor with bt routers so I'm not sure what to do to check if there is a real issue or not.

In reply to a post by Xuse:

afaik you can't run thinkbroadbands quality monitor with bt routers so I'm not sure what to do to check if there is a real issue or not.

SOME BT routers - I have never had issues with te hones I have had.

Without another router to substitute - you could go back to basics - if you have the opportunity, try connecting your computer directly to the ONT rather than via the router. You will need to setup a PPPoE client in lieu of the router doing the authentication. Re-run any tests.

You could also eliminate any possible issues with your own machine if you can test in the same way with another machine or otherwise test the basic capabilities of your PC hardware, without any possible effect from other windows programs, firewall and AV software etc and clean boot the machine with an Ubuntu stick.

Also see if you can separately test your own machines and network can between themselves on your LAN sustain and saturate your gigabit network connections by running internal tests using iperf or openspeedtest or the like.

Some great ideas, I'll look into doing that. When I built this computer I did want to get a motherboard with Intel lan, but from reading around online Realtek is not as bad as it used to be.

One good thing that happened is that openreach are coming out to remove the redundant copper cable free of charge. The guy on the phone said it should have been removed. I know it's just aesthetic reasons, but I'm still glad it's going to be removed.

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I know it's just aesthetic reasons, but I'm still glad it's going to be removed.

I couldn't agree more. I never understand why otherwise house-proud people are happy to have all kinds of old/redundant/no longer properly attached cables trailing around the front elevation of their house.

Draytek 2866. Bulletproof, feature rich and can do 1.2Gb/s combined out of its WAN ports.

Starts at £275

Edited by nofappingway (Tue 04-Jan-22 17:35:24)