[plug] Router slow down

[gavinwc]

Thanks for your feedback. I've decided that a newer router will be the
answer after all.

Thanks,
Gavin

On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 11:32, Chris Hoy Poy <chris at hoypoy.id.au> wrote:

> Yes, you will need something with a bit more guts to route 500+mbit, even
> to a single point (think about what's going on with those bits!)
>
> I have a mikrotik RB5009 that can handle 2500 on fttp, even with multiple
> vlans and labs in the mix.
>
> NBN fttp with 2gbe links are "mainstream" now, hardware hasn't necessarily
> caught up yet.
>
> /Chris
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026, 11:18 am gavinwc via plug, <plug at plug.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi people,
>>
>> Longtime lurker (joined late-90s), but it's been a long time since
>> posting :-)
>>
>> I have a TP-Link WiFi router model VX220-G2v that was standard issue when
>> I signed up to iinet several years ago. The specs are still good by today's
>> standards - or are they?
>> I've always been fortunate to have FTTP since NBN upgraded my area to
>> fibre several years ago. For a long time I've been on a 50Mbs plan, but
>> recent price drops and a change of provider saw me upgrade to a 500Mbs plan
>> for the same cost.
>> I've run Cat5 cable through the ceiling to a few sockets in different
>> rooms, so we're not talking about WiFi speeds here, only cable.
>> Now, at first I wasn't getting the speeds advertised and discovered that
>> the short leg of Cat6 from the NBN modem to the router was the problem, so
>> I replaced that. Still I was getting only a max of 260-280 Mbs by cable to
>> a room through the router. No other traffic on the network, just one PC.
>> In my fault-finding I decided to connect directly to the NBN modem using
>> the same short cable that went to the TP-Link router. Boom! Immediately
>> 520Mbs. Then I connected the cat5 that ran to another room direct to the
>> NBN modem - again 500+Mbs.
>> So, the weakness is the TP-Link router that even with gigabit ports and
>> even if running on cable, not WiFi, is robbing me of half my available
>> speed with only one device on the network, including no WiFi activity at
>> the time of testing from any other device.
>> Seems a good idea to upgrade the router, but is this actually going to
>> help and give me effectively a "straight-through" connection with no speed
>> loss when a single device is connected?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Gavin
>>
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