I have a bit of my own story to add to this if you don't mind as it's a speed issue, albeit slightly different to what has been said so far. So I wonder if anyone might be able to interpret some speed test results I have obtained on my new BT FTTP 500 Service?
Using my RT-AX88U with QoS turned off (just be be sure of no additional interference), I'm getting about 385 down and 73 up via Wi-Fi. I've used the router's own speed test option in the GUI and also checked it against BT's own speed tester (www.speedtest.btwholesale.com). Both methods return very similar results. However, if I connect the supplied BT Smart Hub 2 and connect my laptop to the hub via an Ethernet connection, I get around 498 down and 55 up from the BT test site (it won't work direct from the hub and I think BT may have disabled that option according to something I read about having to use the BT mobile app instead). But back to my question: My query is why, when compared with the results when using my RT-AX88U, the download is so much faster on the BT web site but the upload is quite a bit slower (than when using the hub)? I could understand if both were slower or faster, but these results seem a bit odd at first glance. Any ideas what might be going on here? I can try some additional experiments if necessary, but it'll probably have to wait until the new year as my children are at home all day now and they can't of course manage without the Internet for more than a few minutes LOL. Here's the results from the router's automatic speed tests.
I think I've found the reason for the slower download speed using the ASUS RT-AX88U router. It seems that although I thought I had turned off QoS this morning (before performing the speed tests to compare with the BT Smart Hub 2), it was still doing its thing, possibly because the additional script I had installed via SSH from the Merlin alternative firmware support community was still installed. I've since uninstalled the QoS add-on, disabled the ASUS stock firmware QoS, rebooted the router and now the speeds have come back up (see image below). Perhaps the issue with the Smart Hub could be that it needs firmware updates, so next time I try it (probably after Christmas), I'll leave it connected for 24 hours to see what happens with the upload speed. Here's the latest auto speed tests from the ASUS router.
