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Radish

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#240684 20-Sep-2018 10:51

I have had a 1gig Fibre connection for about a month now but I am finding my download speeds seem really slow.

Speed Test shows 850 down 400 up but when I try and download, say Halo Wars 2 from the MS Store it really goes above 4mb/s and on the Xbox it never goes above 20mb/s.

My question is what sort of speeds do you get? I know there can be lots of things that can cause slow downloads, but before getting Fibre I had ADSL and my downloads would max out around 10-12mb/s. I was hoping for better speeds.

I have my laptop and xbox connected directly to the Vodafone modem using new CAT6 cables.

Thanks.

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#2093725 20-Sep-2018 11:34

@Radish 1 is local traffic the higher and the other international expecting 1Gb/s international downloads is not going to happen

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Radish

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#2093771 20-Sep-2018 12:35

Linux:

@Radish 1 is local traffic the higher and the other international expecting 1Gb/s international downloads is not going to happen

John

I understand that and are expecting 1Gb/s.

I am expecting faster speeds than my old ADSL connection.

I have talked to the helpdesk and they are telling me that there is no wrong with my connection.

I have checked with a friend who is on VDSL and he normally gets download speeds around 50mb/s on his Xbox, so I am really confused.

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#2093776 20-Sep-2018 12:41

Radish:

I have checked with a friend who is on VDSL and he normally gets download speeds around 50mb/s on his Xbox, so I am really confused.

I'd suspect your friend is on another provider?

completely normal to have different routing performance. Some RSP's are great for performance to say; SG while having not so flash to say EU.

While others will be the total flip.

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wratterus

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#2093779 20-Sep-2018 12:43

Which router are you using?

Radish

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#2093822 20-Sep-2018 13:37

wratterus:

Which router are you using?

The Vodafone Ultra Hub

wratterus

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#2093826 20-Sep-2018 13:40

There are several threads around with poor download speeds from certain sources with the Ultra Hub.

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=230692

http://community.vodafone.co.nz/t5/Modems-Wi-Fi/Ultra-Hub-with-steam-battle-net/td-p/220757

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=239464

Have a read through that last one in particular.

Vodafone's page for the new firmware is here, that's also worth checking on.

Just FYI I have a mate who had this issue, we never really got to the bottom of it but with an EdgeRouter he was able to easily get over 60MB/sec downloading from Steam, where before with the Ultra Hub it was never over 10.

wratterus

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#2093876 20-Sep-2018 15:10

It also just occurred to me that you may be getting bits and bytes confused? You mention getting 12MB/sec on ADSL, that's not possible, so I assume it would be 12Mbps.

Just to make sure we're on the same page.. 8 bits in a byte. 1MB/sec = 8Mbps

10MB/sec = 80Mbps

60MB/sec = 480Mbps

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invisibleman18

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#2094364 21-Sep-2018 10:11

wratterus:
There are several threads around with poor download speeds from certain sources with the Ultra Hub.

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=230692

http://community.vodafone.co.nz/t5/Modems-Wi-Fi/Ultra-Hub-with-steam-battle-net/td-p/220757

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=239464

Have a read through that last one in particular.

Vodafone's page for the new firmware is here, that's also worth checking on.

Just FYI I have a mate who had this issue, we never really got to the bottom of it but with an EdgeRouter he was able to easily get over 60MB/sec downloading from Steam, where before with the Ultra Hub it was never over 10.

Sorry for the tread hijack but I just got the Ultra Hub a few weeks ago. Haven't had any problems with it but is there some way to tell whether it's on the latest firmware? If it's not then should I download and install this manually or would it happen automatically?

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#2094366 21-Sep-2018 10:17

invisibleman18:

Sorry for the tread hijack but I just got the Ultra Hub a few weeks ago. Haven't had any problems with it but is there some way to tell whether it's on the latest firmware? If it's not then should I download and install this manually or would it happen automatically?

http://help.vodafone.co.nz/app/answers/detail/a_id/24400

Have a look there - that should give you enough to go on. I've not got one here or I'd give you better instructions. I think the firmware is supposed to roll out automatically, but doesn't always?

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#2094368 21-Sep-2018 10:19

Thanks for the link.