[plug] Router slow down

[gavinwc]

Thanks for your ideas and suggestions.

I was being lazy when typing, though I know it makes a big technical
difference - I have indeed run cat5e through my house, and have a cable
tester to check my cables, mostly because I tend to make my own most of the
time.

I've decided that I will be looking to update my router, anyway, because
even with the lan cable runs from time-to-time having better wifi in the
house wouldn't go astray.

Thanks.
Gav

On Sat, 29 Aug 2026 at 22:14, <chtan.chtassoc at tuta.io> wrote:

> Hi Gavin,
>
> I also have a VX220-G2v which I am using as a temporary wifi access point
> (and it is not really up to the task). Also, the release of this
> modem/router was in 2020 and it is quite old by these days standards.
> Out of curiousity, I just tested the LAN Ports and the ports can handle
> 500Mbps comfortably with cat5e cable.
>
> Just a couple of observations, which in case may help:
>
> 1. Is the router plugged into the NBN box via the "blue WAN" Port?
> 2. You mentioned cat5 - which is only rated for 100Mbps and you should
> ideally be using cat5e at the minimum and presumably the RJ45 ends have
> been tested.
>
> Hope you find a resolution and if you do need any cat5e cable, I might
> have some (still in the box) sitting around in my garage somewhere, but I
> cannot help regarding testing the RJ45 cable ends.
> Cheers,
> Choong
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> 28 Aug 2026, 11:23 by plug at plug.org.au:
>
> 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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