No worries. Good luck with the new router…and enjoy the speed!

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

No worries. Good luck with the new router…and enjoy the speed!

Thanks, the price just dropped too so placed an order for one.

In reply to a post by D_an_W:

Interesting thanks, it's only information I read in the manuals so could well be outdated.

The US site Small Net Builder has a pretty good technical forum on Asus routers, and the third party firmware from Merlin. (I'm running an AX88U).

Try a test at speedtest.net
It should detect you're on a gigabit connection and suggest you download their desktop app for Windows... It gives far more consistent results, than an in-browser test.
For the server; I normally choose University of Oxford IT services and my average speedtest (using that app and the Oxford server) is something like 910Mbps/109Mbps

In reply to a post by adebov:

Try a test at speedtest.net
It should detect you're on a gigabit connection and suggest you download their desktop app for Windows... It gives far more consistent results, than an in-browser test.
For the server; I normally choose University of Oxford IT services and my average speedtest (using that app and the Oxford server) is something like 910Mbps/109Mbps

Thanks for the tip, I have a new Router arriving tomorrow so will retest once setup.

In reply to a post by adebov:

Try a test at speedtest.net
It should detect you're on a gigabit connection and suggest you download their desktop app for Windows... It gives far more consistent results, than an in-browser test.
For the server; I normally choose University of Oxford IT services and my average speedtest (using that app and the Oxford server) is something like 910Mbps/109Mbps

I use their CLI App and run it from console and get my full speed.

Paul

With the new Router installed I now get around 917/110 when running a test.

Great!👌👍

In reply to a post by D_an_W:

With the new Router installed I now get around 917/110 when running a test.

Nice

Paul

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Driving cabling at 20 or 30m is pretty easy. Performance of installed cables at the extremes of 90m sorts the wheat from the chaff (especially beyond Cat5e), but you never see those lengths outside of large commercial installs anyway.

I think links closer to the limit are a bit more common now in domestic settings with the rise of the "garden office". That said it is probably a single link and much easier to get one port working at distance, because if it is not working it will be immediately apparent.

Oh and I would note a lot of managed switches and for that matter better quality ethernet adaptors can do comprehensive cable testing if you know where to look to enable it. I remain convinced there is a significant market for a LinkRunner type device at a fraction of the price of a LinkRunner by exploiting the cable testing features of a suitable ethernet chipset. I am lucky to have a LinkRunner Pro that I salvaged from being thrown out at work, cleaned up the mess from the leaky batteries, replaced a battery contact that had been corroded away and fixed a dodgy connection on the RJ45 socket.