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Achieving optimal upload, and download speed from your TELUS connection
After much research into this matter, I would like to offer my 2 cents worth on achieving the optimal Up/Dl speeds with the various currently offered packages, and hardware from TELUS. The mai...
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Community ManagerThis is an incredible write-up. Thank you for sharing!
Thank You... Cheers...
"Trashcan router supplied by TELUS. I will not discuss that device as I have little experience with it."
Trashcan is a good place for it......it is the reason why "downloading the Windows Speedtest App" is the only way to get accurate throughput numbers for your connection.
It institutes an oppressive QoS scheme that limits internal network speeds for Windows Home to about 45 mb/sec on my network. No way to do anything about it now that MS have decoupled QoS from policies in Win10 home. Transfer speeds among my *inux devices remains 100+ mb/sec which I found while trying to figure out why everything was so slow. Basically its "load balancing by limiting network speeds of QoS capable devices" and not intelligent balancing by traffic load, heavy handed "you don't need to go faster than X" oppressive balancing.
IE: even with a single Windows computer with QoS attached - your 1 Gb internet connection turns into 45 mb/sec.....
I'm satisfied with the white trashcan router or "Hub" as Telus calls it, made by Arcadyan, and it works fine for me. Getting about 175 Mbps up/down on a ethernet connection or Wi-fi. Using an iPad 7 or 9 or iPhone 8 on WiFi, or wired connection to a 2011 Mac Mini, Telus PVR, 2 Sony TVs, and 2 Apple TV 4K boxes. Usually only using 2 or 3 devices at once, single person household, only use about 200 GB data per month.
The Hub is in the centre of my house in a ground floor closet and is connected there direct to fibre. The Telus technician was OK with letting me get dirty pulling the fibre cable 50 feet in from the garage through the house crawl space to the closet (Telus techs don't like or may not be allowed to go into dusty dark places, but I don't mind).
A Telus PVR and secondary non-PVR box for TVs are connected and one is running all day. There are two 1Gbps ethernet switches connected to the Hub and located in 2 rooms where various devices are connected. I would be interested in trying 1 Gbps from Telus but 180 Mbps is all I need for now.
