Jiriteach:

LoganMcArthur: Hey guys, I am using the supplied router.

Here is an image from the ONT.

That ONT has seen better days! - shouldn’t be installed like that which doesn’t help the overall situation but that aside - Plug the router in the port that the blue ethernet cable is plugged into and the plug an ethernet cable from the router into your laptop/PC and run some tests to check speed.

Looks like the cable needs to be re-terminated. Where are you based?

RunningMan:

Basically, 2D are advising there is probably a cable fault between your router and the ONT, however, 100Mb half duplex is an odd speed to negotiate. It's very common for a cable fault to cause a negotiation it 100Mb full duplex, but half suggests it has been set wrong in your router.

What router are you using? Can you view/change the WAN ethernet port connection speed? Fritzbox routers often call this power saving or green mode. You're looking for a setting 1000Mb full duplex (i.e. gigabit).

The comment there that the wiring is cat5e and causing it is wrong. Cat5e will support 1000Mb perfectly fine unless it has a fault. Cat6 is fine, but Cat5e should also work.

michaelmurfy:

Looks like the cable needs to be re-terminated. Where are you based?

LoganMcArthur:

Hey man, I am located just outside of Wellington!

If your profile address is right (us moderators can see this, others can't) then you're just a very short drive from me. Flick me a direct message to confirm and I can perhaps come down tomorrow after I've finished work to re-crimp it and take a look for you.

If it's solid core cable, then its probably easier to put keystones on both ends and short ethernet leads rather than crimp it.

michaelmurfy:

LoganMcArthur:

Hey man, I am located just outside of Wellington!

If your profile address is right (us moderators can see this, others can't) then you're just a very short drive from me. Flick me a direct message to confirm and I can perhaps come down tomorrow after I've finished work to re-crimp it and take a look for you.

You're a very lucky chap having Michael so close and willing to have a look!!

It will get fixed😀

Can you explain what you mean when you say the issue was what people thought it was? 

Was it a faulty cable, or was it a configuration setting in the Fritzbox?

are you testing via wifi or ethernet?

are you confident that the device can do gigabit speeds, there were some laptops a while back that had their ethernet port connected to the USB bus and limited to around 300mbps.