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Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

Karamelk
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

@bobpullen im willing to try anything. Will take my laptop over to my relatives house to test wired in their network, in the meantime, I have tried a different laptop over wired and now seeing between 400- 500mb wired. I'm perplexed.
bobpullen
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

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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Townman
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

@bobpullen 

Inspection of machine stats is a good tool to add to FTTP speed concerns diagnostics.

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Karamelk
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

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!?

MisterW
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Re: Full fibre 900 but not even half the speeds over Ethernet.

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.

@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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