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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...
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.
this is insanely slow though i was sold a product with all the promises of speed. my shaw wifi router i still have here active i get 600mbps download and telus is at 150mbps down. sometimes as high as 200's in another room. that is insane slow. did i just go back to the 1990s?
Which plan do you have?
Here is a link to my Speedtest results from a few minutes ago.
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/081e1572-934b-4915-9f5c-aa2dc743f513
