I took the upgrade to 1 gig broadband last week and have to say, I am disappointed.
Since the upgrade I am averaging between 520Mbps and 630Mbp downstream, where I expected to pull in about 900. On the whole, the upstream achieves the expected 52Mbps.
I have tried multiple set up scenarios, but do. not appear to be gaining any real benefits.
I had an Asus RT-AC88u router connected to the newly supplied Hub4 set to modem mode. Average speeds floated around 380Mbps.
Having decided I had that router for some time, I decided it would be a good time to upgrade and opted for the TP-Link Archer AX6000, capable of 2.5Gbps wan and 8 1Gbps Lan ports. This upgrade improved speeds from the previous 380Mbps average to around 540Mbps. I then swapped out the ethernet cable from the wan port to the Hub4 with a 2000mhz Cat8 cable which has offered further improvement, but I cannot seem to increase any more than this.
QoS is turned off, and if I disable all threat detection modules within the router, there are no improvements to speeds.
Speed tests are carried out using the router's built in test app linked to Speedtest.net. Most tests have been run without any other devices connected to the router, therefore, should be straight through speeds.
If I put the Hub4 in router mode and run a test using Speedtest I get between 500 and 600 Mbps, these tests are carried out via MacBook Pro 16 inch 2019 and iPhone 11 Pro Max. I do not have ethernet enabled devices to test through the Hub4.
My summary is that it appears as if there is a bottleneck in the Hub4 lan ports which is throttling back the speeds before delivering to devices.
I have been testing the connection over the last few days and latency is up and down.



If anyone has any ideas to help reach speeds closer to the 1gig, I would be grateful