Broadband Speed

[pddco]

@gg30340 Wow, that’s nearly 20 UHD TVs worth.

[Kodikid]

Not if watching now tv with a EE tv subscription it isn't. 

[pddco]

Why not .. Ah, perhaps one is limited to the number of UHD devices one can have with the subscription. Wasn’t thinking straight. 

[shakey1981]

id sell my soul that

[shakey1981]

@ncartwr       wired or wireless connect by homeplugs maybe limiting the speed
what does the connected speed say on the router page

https://www.bt.com/help/broadband/learn-about-broadband/learn-about-the-bt-hub-manager

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see what this says  status 

if there are reporting the actual speed of 900mb then its the way you have this connected pulling speed down for example a home plug that maybe connected to maybe only capable of 330mbps

[pddco]

@ncartwr  Just curious, but how big are those AutoCad files?  And does the service where they are downloaded from indicate typical download speeds? You may very well find that the originating servers are actually the bottleneck. 900Mbps is roughly 5GB/min and 300 around 1.5GB/min. Which I’d imagine is going some on what would be a shared resource. Appreciate doesn’t excuse the less than advertised speeds on your service. But as an aside, if the stuff you do at home is time and infrastructure critical for your work , then perhaps Business Broadband - with defined SLAs -  should be the way to go? 

[gg30340]

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@shakey1981wrote:

@ncartwr       wired or wireless connect by homeplugs maybe limiting the speed
what does the connected speed say on the router page

if there are reporting the actual speed of 900mb then its the way you have this connected pulling speed down for example a home plug that maybe connected to maybe only capable of 330mbps

With FTTP, there is no way to see raw line speed.  The link between ONT and Hub is always 1Gb regardless of line speed. Its just an internal connection.

[Crimliar]

@shakey1981 I can't see that our OP has ever mentioned homeplugs, as that's a pretty special circumstance.  As has previously been mentioned, until the speed to the hub is fixed we really don't know what the WiFi is capable of delivering.

I should have screen shotted both, but my fastest WiFi device can manage

with a 2400Mbps link on the 3rd party router, but only gets about 730Mbps with a 866Mbps link using the BT SH2 - but as you can see that's already a special case.  Even with this, I'm lucky to more than 105Mbps upload on any device, though a speed test on the 3rd party router hits 130Mbps upload.

@ncartwr if you are sending AutoCAD docs to a remote printer/plotter, they'll still be limited by the much lower upload speed

[Crimliar]

@pddco Please don't, in just over a week I've a 1/2 Terrabyte upload to make, I'm dreading how long it'll take, especially as I'll have to trigger it remotely!

[pddco]

Well.. not sure what the upload rates are… But anyway, at least you won’t be hogging the phone line for hours on end trying to download a 100MB file for possibly a patch on a game you we’re playing. And at 5KB per second on dial up!! (18MB/hour). And that was on the fasted (V90) analogue dialup NASs. Happy days 😁