Advice on AC5300 router

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@pete y testing - don't fall into that trap - it's marketeering at it's finest...

 

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don't fall into that trap - it's marketeering at it's finest...

lol yup , i think that was my point , its smoke and mirrors man

 

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looking at your speed tests your latency increased by 2ms and your upload to download ration is 20:1 which is really really bad. You wont see any issues when watching videos or downloading large files but try p2p and you will see issues. Some games use p2p and can end up using more upload.

many ISPs are quite greedy by giving you very little upload for you to consume data but not be able to make full use of the network for various things like your own media and file server for example. This is so you buy services (or they can push content to you) rather than setup your own and also restricts vpn speeds if you want to make proper use of security. Im guessing you're on cable.

More upload = more local content and more connections.

 

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many ISPs are quite greedy by giving you very little upload for you to consume data but not be able to make full use of the network for various things like your own media and file server for example. This is so you buy services (or they can push content to you) rather than setup your own and also restricts vpn speeds if you want to make proper use of security. Im guessing you're on cable.

Food for thought... it would be nice to have a symmetric link, but generally one doesn't need it.. I'm not a heavy P2P user, but I do work from home, so that's a factor, and there's a couple of hours of streaming media each day....

DAY   Date        WANTX      WANRX      Ratio    WAN Total
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1    2016-08-31    128.25 MiB    2.53 GiB    0.05    2.66 GiB
2    2016-08-30    283.18 MiB    7.83 GiB    0.04    8.11 GiB
3    2016-08-29    183.60 MiB    3.84 GiB    0.05    4.02 GiB
4    2016-08-28    172.94 MiB    6.76 GiB    0.02    6.93 GiB
5    2016-08-27    236.20 MiB    7.54 GiB    0.03    7.77 GiB
6    2016-08-26    123.51 MiB    5.47 GiB    0.02    5.59 GiB
7    2016-08-25    178.52 MiB    6.56 GiB    0.03    6.74 GiB
8    2016-08-24    259.69 MiB    10.13 GiB    0.03    10.38 GiB
9    2016-08-23    140.81 MiB    3.85 GiB    0.04    3.98 GiB
10    2016-08-22    228.88 MiB    5.36 GiB    0.04    5.58 GiB
11    2016-08-21    270.60 MiB    7.42 GiB    0.04    7.69 GiB
12    2016-08-20    324.92 MiB    7.15 GiB    0.04    7.47 GiB
13    2016-08-19    225.32 MiB    3.78 GiB    0.06    4.00 GiB
14    2016-08-18    210.22 MiB    4.56 GiB    0.05    4.77 GiB
15    2016-08-17    159.49 MiB    3.74 GiB    0.04    3.90 GiB
16    2016-08-16    308.75 MiB    10.15 GiB    0.03    10.45 GiB
17    2016-08-15    267.28 MiB    5.67 GiB    0.05    5.93 GiB
18    2016-08-14    251.84 MiB    6.77 GiB    0.04    7.01 GiB
19    2016-08-13    268.96 MiB    5.54 GiB    0.05    5.80 GiB
20    2016-08-12    419.87 MiB    8.54 GiB    0.05    8.95 GiB
21    2016-08-11    445.56 MiB    9.02 GiB    0.05    9.45 GiB
22    2016-08-10    432.40 MiB    9.76 GiB    0.04    10.18 GiB
23    2016-08-09    415.21 MiB    8.60 GiB    0.05    9.01 GiB
24    2016-08-08    365.36 MiB    7.82 GiB    0.05    8.18 GiB
25    2016-08-07    507.05 MiB    10.15 GiB    0.05    10.65 GiB
26    2016-08-06    256.17 MiB    13.31 GiB    0.02    13.56 GiB
27    2016-08-05    276.94 MiB    9.21 GiB    0.03    9.49 GiB
28    2016-08-04    383.48 MiB    9.76 GiB    0.04    10.13 GiB
29    2016-08-03    271.91 MiB    8.22 GiB    0.03    8.48 GiB
30    2016-08-02    398.88 MiB    10.69 GiB    0.04    11.08 GiB

 

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Food for thought... it would be nice to have a symmetric link, but generally one doesn't need it.. I'm not a heavy P2P user, but I do work from home, so that's a factor, and there's a couple of hours of streaming media each day....

20:1 ratio is terrible. at least give 4:1

 

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20:1 ratio is terrible. at least give 4:1

I'm just an average guy

The data above is not a model, it's real world from a small household (there's two of us) using typical apps...

ISP's model rateplans and network services around activities like this, and price them accordingly - it's the demand and capacity stuff - and data has always been asymmetric for as long as I can remember on the last mile - whether it's dialup from the 1990's all the way thru to our current usage of data on SmartPhones, and that ratio has actually been pretty close thru the years...

What's odd - fire up wireshark and take a sample of traffic over a WiFi link - it's far from symmetric in most use cases - wireshark has the statistical menu where you can look at things from client to AP, and in most general usage, it's strongly biased towards the downlink (from AP to client).

This is one of the devils to deal with on schedules and MU-MIMO performance (link traffic vs. opportunity vs. number of MU capable clients in the mix).

Then we look at mesh, and the schedule opportunities there, as things are again - asymmetric and strongly biased in one direction - and mesh can have issues with that.

It's all fun stuff - what's interesting when working demand/capacity problems, it's that that ratio is actually fairly constant - and perhaps an opportunity for a router/AP vendor with regards to service priority and management of those services...