2.5 gig residential internet does not give 2.5 gig on cat 6

atashaikh Wrote: I got 2.5 gig fibre for my home and I cannot get 2.5 gig down (or even close) if I use any other port besides the "10 gig" port. 

I can assure you that the 2.5Gbps service does indeed work, and is even over provisioned to provide more that the 2.5Gbps speeds.

Indeed, the Telus Modem/Routers are configured with 4 – 1Gbps ports and 1 – 10Gbps ports. The reasoning is that most people are still utilizing no more that 1Gbps services, and those of us that indeed utilize faster speeds commonly  have specialize hardware that is specifically designed to take advantage of the speed.

Economies of scale play into this as Telus would have to support many different hardware SKU’s if they had to provide multiple hardware devices, as well ease of support for remote techs with fewer combinations of hardware.

Let’s see if we can find some configuration that may work for you.

The first thing that would be helpful is knowing what hardware you are currently utilizing within your network, i.e., which specific switch model, and which specific NIC adapters?

As well the current Telus modem that has been installed would be helpful as well. For example, is it the one that is displayed below?

If so, are you utilizing it as your router/firewall, or has it been placed in bridged mode. If the latter, has it been fully bridged on all ports, or just the 10Gbps port?

Again, lets see if we can get this figured out for you, Cheers...

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