Third Party Router = Slower Speeds?

[naylor2006]

No mate....I use my own router and did since day one, the BT Router didnt even authenticate before mine did, I am getting 900/110 all day every day. BT do not care.

Yeah well you can always power off the ONT for a minute or so, power it back up, then once its up power on your router, sometimes it fixes stuff.

36Mbps down though on your ethernet connection direct is dreadful, if the BT router is getting 500Mbps like it should with the same ethernet test then the 3rd party router isnt doing its job very well 😕

All singing/dancing routers rarely all sing and dance, if you want the best performance you need to split out your network devices. The BT SH2 is perfectly fine for normal home usages unless you wish to have further control, but from a performance point of view its half decent. I think folks tend to expect too much from these fancy spaceship looking routers.

[JonesT0108]

Hi again. 

I've just done a speed test over WiFi and I'm getting 398mbps now. I do vaguely remember that when I switched to BT, the engineer said not to expect the full speed until a couple days after installation, so whether BT have limited the speed for a few days after detecting different hardware, I don't know. 

I can stop moaning about the new router now 😅

Appreciate all the help and support 🙏 

[WSH]

It might be worth checking with TP-Link as to the maximum firewall throughput on the Archer AX50.

I believe that model is about 5 or 6 years old.  Even though they have gigabit ports, up until about that time a lot of routers had a max firewall throughput in the region of 350 Mb/s, as they only needed to cope with FTTC speeds of up to 80 Mb/s.

I have a Draytek released in 2018 and the max throughput, without hardware acceleration turned on, is only 350 Mb/s but as my current internet is only 62 Mb/s, it's perfectly adequate.

[naylor2006]

@WSH Yep....even the ER-X will be low numbers until you turn on HW offloading, then you can get full speed on the WAN.