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Speed slowly gets to normal on speedtest
Hi,
Something odd that I have noticed was that whenever I do a speedtest, my download and upload speed will slowly ramp up to the speed I pay for. Before when I started the speedtest it would go straight to top.
I currently have the gigabit plan, and the modem is plugged straight into my router then computer via cat5e.
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Here is a video of it
You have subscribed to a top of the line internet package. Need to remember that in most of the world they don't see a fraction of this and consumer routers simply aren't build to deal with that kind of speed, especially if you enable some sort of encryption on them.
Very easy way for you to see if the home router is cause of your slowdown.
Now that home router is on port 1 in bridged mode, unplug the RJ45 from your PC that goes into the home router and plug it directly into the modem in one of the other free LAN ports and run the same speed test. If you don't get the slowdown you see with your previous setup its time to either reconfigure or replace the home router.
If / When you add on router encryption/vpn to get line speed with your good fibre connection you need some serious specs most consumer hardware cant handle this.
Here is just one example of the hardware (and cost) scaling when you get into speeds the big boys are playing at.
https://www.netgate.com/products/appliances/
I have no affiliation with Netgate, however I do custom build routers using the same open source Pfsense platform.
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- That's normal. It's showing an average so early on the normal variations are more noticable. Think of Internet speeds as traffic on a road. Sometimes there are more cars than normal, sometimes cars travel faster than the average speed, sometimes cars travel faster than the average speed but over time the average is the average.
- Second "faster" should be "slower". I wish could edit our posts.
It just seemed strange to me because this didn't happen before. Thanks for the reply though!
