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02 Feb 2016 13:56 #85239 by alanplum241276
Replied by alanplum241276 on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin
For anyone that's interested....

I got my leased line increased to 300/300 and tested with my Draytek 2925 which also sports a so called 300Mbps throughput.

In reality, it topped out at 240Mbps down and only about 210Mbps up. This is with no services on whatsoever.

I've now removed the 2925 and installed a gigabit switch instead. (I only used it for extra ports anyway)

Now I get 288Mbps down, 288Mbps up, which is about right for 300 including overheads.

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09 Feb 2016 16:32 #85314 by admin3
Replied by admin3 on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin

alanplum241276 wrote: For anyone that's interested....

I got my leased line increased to 300/300 and tested with my Draytek 2925 which also sports a so called 300Mbps throughput.

In reality, it topped out at 240Mbps down and only about 210Mbps up. This is with no services on whatsoever.

I've now removed the 2925 and installed a gigabit switch instead. (I only used it for extra ports anyway)

Now I get 288Mbps down, 288Mbps up, which is about right for 300 including overheads.



That's surprising, was that with the default MTU of 1442 / 1492 or was that increased to 1500?

Also was Hardware Acceleration enabled?

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11 Feb 2016 15:12 #85337 by alanplum241276
Replied by alanplum241276 on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin
HW Acceleration turned off as it caused me problems.

MTU was 1500.

I've retired it now (sitting in the cupboard).

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13 Feb 2016 00:21 #85351 by destroyer
Replied by destroyer on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin

alanplum241276 wrote: For anyone that's interested....

I got my leased line increased to 300/300 and tested with my Draytek 2925 which also sports a so called 300Mbps throughput.

In reality, it topped out at 240Mbps down and only about 210Mbps up. This is with no services on whatsoever.

I've now removed the 2925 and installed a gigabit switch instead. (I only used it for extra ports anyway)

Now I get 288Mbps down, 288Mbps up, which is about right for 300 including overheads.



I'm a bit puzzled, you swapped a router for a switch? How does that work? Can you elaborate a bit?

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13 Feb 2016 20:19 #85353 by alanplum241276
Replied by alanplum241276 on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin
Yep

I have a 300/300 leased line so my end point is Ethernet from a Cisco ME3400.

I used the draytek "as a switch" to route my traffic.

I used the WAN port to statically assign one of my 14 IPs, and IP routed subnet to hang other stuff off.

In the end I removed it and used a normal switch with VLAN.

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27 Apr 2016 14:42 #86008 by qwaz01
Replied by qwaz01 on topic Re: 2860 WAN throughout on Virgin
We have Virgin's 220mb Service with a Hitron router connected to the Draytek's WAN port.

Using Speedtest.net we are getting 215-220mb download every time.

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