<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><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 31 Aug 2026, 6:24 pm gavinwc via plug, <<a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for your ideas and suggestions.</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div>Gav </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Aug 2026 at 22:14, <<a href="mailto:chtan.chtassoc@tuta.io" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">chtan.chtassoc@tuta.io</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">
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<div dir="auto">Hi Gavin,<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><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></div><div dir="auto">Out of curiousity, I just tested the LAN Ports and the ports can handle 500Mbps comfortably with cat5e cable.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just a couple of observations, which in case may help:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Is the router plugged into the NBN box via the "blue WAN" Port?<br></div><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></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><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><div dir="auto">Choong</div><div dir="auto">-- <br></div><div dir="auto"> Secured with Tuta Mail: <br></div><div dir="auto"> <a href="https://tuta.com/free-email" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tuta.com/free-email</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">28 Aug 2026, 11:23 by <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug@plug.org.au</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi people,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Longtime lurker (joined late-90s), but it's been a long time since posting :-)<br></div><div><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?<br></div><div><br></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. <br></div><div><br></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.<br></div><div><br></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.<br></div><div><br></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.<br></div><div><br></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.<br></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?<br></div><div><br></div><div>TIA,<br></div><div>Gavin<br></div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div>
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