Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

What is your router?

richms:

 

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

 

What is your router?

 

Netgear X6 R8000. 

I'll be surprised if I notice a difference as I haven't gotten round to replacing my old TP link router which barely delivers 200/200. I'd imagine there might be a few older routers around which won't be helping people hit higher speeds.

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

 

 

What's your computer specs, and is the CPU maxxing out when you run the speedtest?

DarkShadow:

 

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

 

 

 

What's your computer specs, and is the CPU maxxing out when you run the speedtest?

 

DarkShadow:

 

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

 

 

 

What's your computer specs, and is the CPU maxxing out when you run the speedtest?

 

Hi,

It's an i5 6600K Skylake with 16gB ram running on a Samsung 950 Pro SSD. CPU goes to about 30% during the speed test, then drops back down to about 5-7%.

Flickky:

 

DarkShadow:

 

ArranH:

 

 

Well that's disappointing. I guess it's a 50% increase, but nowhere near what everyone else is getting :(

 

 

 

 

What's your computer specs, and is the CPU maxxing out when you run the speedtest?

 

Also is this over wifi? The X6 R8000's (depending on your firmware) are known for being buggy on wifi, especially on 2.4Ghz. As always, would recommend reading this post about the Gigabit upgrade to understand speed limitations and what you can do.

 

Hi,

Nope, over cat6 to the gigabit port on my motherboard. No other PCs coming off it.

Wait, I found that the speedlimiter on the router, while set to no maximum limit, was ticked. Theoretically it shouldn't do anything but, well, since when did any of this stuff act like it should in theory. So I unticked it and now at 691/435 :)

Thanks for your help people :)

ArranH:

 

Wait, I found that the speedlimiter on the router, while set to no maximum limit, was ticked. Theoretically it shouldn't do anything but, well, since when did any of this stuff act like it should in theory. So I unticked it and now at 691/435 :)

 

 

 

Thanks for your help people :)

 

Just tested again, 932/435

I'm a very happy geek. Thanks Bigpipe :)

If you guys _really_ want to troubleshoot your speedtests, you need to do a wireshark capture of all the speedtest threads, figure out which threads are the actual test threads, and then determine the behaviour of your TCP stack in terms of how fast the TCP window size opens up and what the initial window size is. You could also look at the window and throughput of individual TCP connections over time to see if the AIMD process is behaving as expected.

If that doesn't make a lot of sense to you, then trying to understand gigabit speedtests is going to be a frustrating experience.

Cheers - N

Hi,

Nope, over cat6 to the gigabit port on my motherboard. No other PCs coming off it.

that reminds me, i'm unsure if I have cat6 from NTU to WAN router port.

Off home via PBtech I reckon.

Still waiting for mine to come through on the north shore.  Wasn't connected this morning... hope it's wired up soon!  :D

woop - stoked!  :D