[plug] Router slow down

[William Kenworthy]

I have a flint2 with vanilla OpenWRT - works very well. The limitation I 
ran into is it can only handle 5 wifi VPN's.

BillK


On 1/9/26 09:20, Byron Hammond via plug wrote:
> If you like the thought of openwrt, gl.inet sells routers with 
> firmware based on openwrt. Take a look at the Flint series. Flint 2, 3 
> and the latest 4
>
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2026, 6:24 pm gavinwc via plug, <plug at plug.org.au> wrote:
>
>     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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