AXE16000 10G wan speed

[rpnmtb]

Has anyone been using the 10G ports for wan and getting higher than 3.8Gbps up or down? Wondering how close to 10Gbps it maxes out. Not expecting 10Gbps but should reach closer to 6Gbps.

I have my AXE16000 connected to the 10G port on a Bell Gigahub in advanced DMZ mode with 8Gbps service but not getting anywhere near that when speedtest from Asus. Using cat6a and tired with other cat6a cables. Tried both 10G ports on asus as well. Will not go higher than 3.8.

 

[Lax]

There is a bug in the router's internet speed test. I recently upgraded my internet from 5gbps up/down. I get 5.1gbps on MacMini 2023 model connected to the 10G port of the router. But the internet speed test in router only gives 3.5gbps.

 

[vik85es]

I have a 10 Gbps connection and the router internal speed test wont go over 4 Gbps, but my computer connected to the other 10G port reaches 8Gbps (maximum) via Speedtest CLI. Just a limitation of the internal test.

 

[Arethustra]

So glad to have found this thread as I've been chasing this for about a week off and on as I worked to get my new network setup stable and perform - the fact that the internal test is "lying to us" is maddening as I was pretty far down the rabbit hole trying to figure out why the best I could get was 3.4Gbps down and often as little as 200Mbps down on my 5Gbps ATT Fiber.

Just grabbed a Cat8 cable and plugged into the 2nd 10G port of my secondary AXE16000 and consistently got 5.6Gbps from Fast.com - this AXE16K is a node in my AiMesh with a "10Gbps" wired backhaul to my primary AXE16K that is direct connected to my AT&T BGW320-500 gateway which is operating in IP Passthrough mode.

Tried Speedtest direct and saw that I was back in the neighborhood of what I was expecting performance-wise with a 4651 down and 4709 up result.

Don't know why I didn't just test this way from the start.

 

[vik85es]

My case is similar. This is normal from the router web:

via CLI I get full speed:

 

[Arethustra]

Just glad that I can stop chasing my tail on something that wasn't actually broken despite the built-in speedtest telling me it was. Now I can just focus down on getting the rest of the config dialed in.

 

[drabisan]

Yeah, speedtest on the router was never extremely accurate. It's surprising a bit the same router model can do high bandwidth when it's "client" and not actually doing the switching/routing.
But I've seen the same with Juniper and Cisco with price tag 1000x more. It kinda make sense.

I have "only" a 1G connection. AXE16000 is able to do most time speedtests on this link up to 1G. But all AX clients in 5GHz and 6GHz are able to do that consistently, 100% of the time.

 

[linkpros]

I have 2Gb service and I'm getting only 1.7 upload while doing speed test from browser, however router speed tests are consistent 2.1 down and 2.1 upload.
I tried all possible tests and configurations, nothing works.

• Factory reset
• Merlin firmware
• Disabled QOS, AiProtection
• Switched to 10Gbe ports, 2.5Gbe port, tested parallel 1Gbe ports too
• Disabled all radios
• Disabled firewall

Faulty router?

 

[degrub]

PC likely the limiting factor. Drivers or hardware implementation and what is running in the background. 0.94 x service bit rate is generally the max unless the ISP has overprovisioned the service.

 

[linkpros]

PC likely the limiting factor. Drivers or hardware implementation and what is running in the background. 0.94 x service bit rate is generally the max unless the ISP has overprovisioned the service.

ISP over provisioned to 2.1Gb, I'm using Macbook m1 pro with usb-c to ethernet adapter.