<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for your ideas and feedback. I'd be curious to play with openwrt. I became aware of the project several years ago. But, in this case I've decided that I think an updated router will work given that as one response reminded me that my router is six years old.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div>Gavin </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 13:32, tok2 <<a href="mailto:tok2@protonmail.com">tok2@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi Gavin,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I am not exactly sure of your problem - but these are some things to look for:-</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="list-style-type:"1. "">You will only get Gigabit speeds between say a <span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Gigabit</span> port on your router and <span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Gigabit ports on the hub. I always switch off the uplink Internet port when I need <span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Gigabit speeds between devices. </span></span></span></li><li style="list-style-type:"2. ""><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Check your collision/retransmission stats on all your device ports. Have you tested your terminations and cable runs with a cat6 tester?</span></span></span></li><li style="list-style-type:"3. ""><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you do decide to upgrade the router - see <span><a href="http://openwrt.org" target="_blank">openwrt.org</a> - there is a release for TPLink (I use one) - but mainly for Wifi and security features. </span></span></span></span></li></ol><div><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Get in touch if you need more.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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On Friday, 28 August 2026 at 11:18, gavinwc via plug <<a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au" target="_blank">plug@plug.org.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi people,</div><div><br></div><div>Longtime lurker (joined late-90s), but it's been a long time since posting :-)</div><div><span>Gigabit</span><br></div><div>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?</div><div></div><div>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.<span>Gigabit</span> </div><div></div><div>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.</div><div></div><div>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.</div><div></div><div>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.</div><div></div><div>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.</div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>TIA,</div><div>Gavin</div><div> </div></div>
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