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<p>I have a flint2 with vanilla OpenWRT - works very well. The
limitation I ran into is it can only handle 5 wifi VPN's.</p>
<p>BillK</p>
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<div dir="auto">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</div>
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<div>Thanks for your ideas and suggestions.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
<div>Gav </div>
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22:14, <<a href="mailto:chtan.chtassoc@tuta.io"
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<div dir="auto">Hi Gavin,<br>
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<div dir="auto">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.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Out of curiousity, I just tested the LAN
Ports and the ports can handle 500Mbps comfortably
with cat5e cable.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Just a couple of observations, which in
case may help:<br>
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<div dir="auto">1. Is the router plugged into the NBN
box via the "blue WAN" Port?<br>
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<div dir="auto">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. <br>
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<div dir="auto">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.<br>
Cheers,</div>
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<div dir="auto">28 Aug 2026, 11:23 by <a
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<div>Hi people,<br>
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<div>Longtime lurker (joined late-90s), but it's
been a long time since posting :-)<br>
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<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?<br>
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<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. <br>
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<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.<br>
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<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.<br>
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<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.<br>
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<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.<br>
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<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?<br>
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<div>TIA,<br>
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<div>Gavin<br>
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