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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
07-01-2023 2:42 PM
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
07-01-2023 3:46 PM - edited 07-01-2023 3:46 PM
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Do these laptops have SSD drives and how recent are they? I mentioned it previously, but client hardware specs also need to be taken into account. Example: a 5400RPM spinning hard drive might have a maximum write speed of 75MB/s, which equates to 600mbps i.e. two thirds of the speed of a 900mbps broadband connection, and that's assuming no overheads/contention affecting the disk I/O.
If the laptop simply cannot write data to its storage medium quickly enough, then it's not going to be able to saturate a 900mbps Internet connection. Likewise if it doesn't have enough available free memory or a decent enough CPU/processor.
I wonder if it's worth looking at the Task Manager (assuming Windows) the next time you run a wired speedtest?
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
09-01-2023 4:25 PM
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Inspection of machine stats is a good tool to add to FTTP speed concerns diagnostics.
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
09-01-2023 5:17 PM
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Hi @bobpullen bit of an update. The device is more than capable of 1gbps over Ethernet, SSD i5 less than a year old laptop. Now when I test via mlabs measurement I'm seeing around 700mbps over Ethernet, other sites such as fast.com and speed test.net barely 500mbps. The btw speed test doesn't even register above 400mbps!?
Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
09-01-2023 5:27 PM - edited 09-01-2023 5:28 PM
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The most consitent speedtest for the high speed connections is the Ookla one , preferably the cli version
https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.
10-01-2023 3:12 PM
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@Karamelk - looks like specs should be OK then. Is it a corporate laptop, and if so is it configured to use any VPN/corproate intranet connections? That's another potential bottleneck.
I haven't tried regrading your line yet because I'm becoming less confident that it's going to help, particularly as you've now seen ~700mbps. I think the real litmus test will be what either laptop can do at the other location (make sure to use the same cables etc.)
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