Vodafone Fibre 900 - Questions and thoughts - Speeds

Hi all - first post

I've recently changed over from Sky to Vodafone FTTP 900 package, not a bad deal £36 per month and also moved my mobile contract across for £10 per for 100GB a month.

I've plugged in my own Asus (Merlin FW) router, which pretty much connected right away, with a few tweaks after the username and password change.

What I have noticed is that real world speeds differ to 'speed tests'. I have two PCs wired into the router. One running a VPN, the other without.

Both PC's will breeze any online speed test via a browser, showing 900+ download speeds. However, things seem different in the 'real world'.

Updating games from Epic (40+GB in size) only download around 24-27mbps and is shared across both computers? Pausing one PC's download affects the speed of the other, with our without the VPN turned on, which seems strange.

Other downloads from MS, also don't seem to get the full 900 mbps that I would expect from their servers.

Maybe due to the fact VW/Audi sent be a 'cheque' for cheating the emissions testing and I've got my tin foil hat on when I write this post.

But, would it beyond ISPs to 'cheat' browser speed tests to show higher speeds that users get offered in day to day use?

Someone might correct me on this, however Speedtests tend be multithreaded which is several connections in parallel downloading the same (but maybe different bits of the) file.

Downloads depending on the client say Epic Game Store or MS may use single threaded which restricts it to one stream and thus can be limited.

I have to say on Epic and through MS my downloads are also slow comparatively to what the connection is capable of.

Try running a speedtest on this site and report back what single and multithreaded rates are?

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest

You might want to read https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/hzc6ui...