To answer the router part of the question - assuming you have the USG-4 (non pro), then if you are just using a basic NAT configuration it should be good for 900+Mbps.

However, if you configure any features that mean the router can't use cut through forwarding (CTF), then it will struggle to handle more than around 150Mbps. Quality of Service (QoS) and port forwarding rules are the most common basic features that result in the router having to do store and forward rather than CTF.

In reply to a post by PhilipD:

BT when selling their FTTP usually guaranteed a minimum speed of 100Mbps

BT have now raised that to 150Mbps minimum.
Just taken from their site now:

Ultrafast Fibre 2 Plus
Your download speed 293Mb
Your minimum download speed 146Mb
Upload speed 48Mb

� 150Mb speed guarantee or you can claim £20
� Plus benefit: Our Keep Connected Promise, getting you back online quickly if your broadband stops working
� Plus benefit: Double data for mobiles on a Plus account
� Smart Hub � more powerful than the hubs from other big broadband providers
� Unlimited monthly usage

So it seems that BT have lowered the download speed and raised the minimum download speed.

However I just did a speedtest and I am still getting via the single threaded test the 307Mbits (down) and 51Mbits (up) so no change my side and this also matches what my SamKnows Whitebox says.

Paul

The USG built in speed tests aren't that good (although ubiquiti have been fiddling with them in recent firmware versions), I'd use a directly wired PC to connect to speedtest.net and think broadband's speed testers to get a better view.

Directly connecting to the ONT (and establishing a PPPOE connection) to see if the results are the same will eliminate the USG. Your pro-4 should be able to do the 330/30 no problem, but there are some options like IDS, which reduce its maximum throughput.

Hi FibreFelix

If you are one of the Nodes near Mary Tavy there is now at least one more post code enabled ( Towards Standon Farm and towards Broadmoor famr for the two)

Thinkbroadband map

No idea how many connections in each post code.

There only appears one other potential single post code place near Cheriton Bishop. However they will all have multiple locations connected to the headend from where contention can occur.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Being the only one on your fibre node, just means no one locally to contend with, but there is still the handover exchange where lots of nodes meet up, and the backhaul arrangements of the provider and then the greater Internet

Easily evident when you try and do a speed test with a 10Gbps connection. None of the speed test sites I have tried can remotely cope.

Hi,

Try testing your speed at: https://www.nperf.com/en/

FibreFelix have you tried changing the ethernet cable between your ONT and your equipment? Although unlikely, as part of the process of elimination, it�s worth doing.

As you�ve connected your laptop up directly, which previously achieved the 300Mb, yet now can�t, would suggest the speed issues are not with your equipment.

At this point it�s a case of handing this back over to your provider to fix, as they are ultimately the ones who can coordinate a fix for this.

I would say, as others have, running a speed test every 15 minutes, maxing out a 300Mb line, could prove to be a bit of a nuisance for your provider. I would however expect them to contact you if it was causing an issue for other users.

I think you missed the bit about 10Gbps. Another speed test server that looks to be connected via 1Gbps. Mind you the upload speeds seemed stuck at around 350Mbps, and that's a load of rubbish as I have 40 cores of Xeon 6138 goodness and 768MB of RAM and the boot disk is RAID1 SSD and other servers give something close to 1Gbps, and I definitely have 4-5Gbps out the University as I have tried a speed test between a couple of Universities in the UK for benchmarking purposes as a remote user was complaining about the speed transfering files on/off the system. I figure Egypt has some sort of ingress filters on their internet

Getting close to 10Gbps is tricky even within the HPC system. The storage servers have bonded 40Gbps, and I just can't max those out at all even between themselves and they are all on the same switch. The whole system has a redundant 10Gbps uplink to the University's core. Not sure what the uplink to Janet is, but pretty decent.

I have 1Gbps on my desktop at work and for general web browsing it's no faster than the 80/20 FTTC link at home.