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Tandtmah

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Hello All,
I am hoping you can help out. I am on a Telus Purefibre plan (940 Mbps Up/down). The connection in my basement is fibre directly to their hub, I have an ASUS rt 5300 AC connected to their second port (first port is for the tv's). On the Asus I am running Merlin: 384_13_0.

When I connect directly to their hub, I get around 900 down and 900 up. When I connect wired to the Asus I am getting 900 down and 30Mbs up. When I connect to a 2.4Ghz wireless network, I am getting ~20Mbs Down and ~20 Mbs Up.

For settings on my Asus:

QOS is disabled

LAN:
Jumbo Frame: Disabled
NAT Acceleration: Auto (CTF is enabled) - This one made a significant difference to the wired connection download speed.
Spanning-Tree-Protocol: Disabled
Bonding/Link aggregation: Disabled

I have the ASUS firewall enabled and for AiProtection, I have Malicious sites blocking enabled and I have the parental controls - Time Scheduling enabled.

I'm hoping you can help with my set-up.

Thanks!
 
I would start troubleshooting by disabling AiProtection and seeing if that makes a difference (on the wired connection).
 
AiProtection on or off did not make a discernible difference. My main concerns are wired-upload speed and wireless up/down speed.

Anything else I can try?
 
Try turning off your modem for 10-15 minutes.
 
Try turning off your modem for 10-15 minutes.

Thank you for the reply! I'm honored! I no longer have a concern for wireless. I've done more testing closer to the modem and router. Here is what I'm getting now:

directtohub.png

Direct to Telus hub

wiredtoasus.png

Connected via ethernet cable to Asus rt 5300

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Wireless to 5Ghz wifi network next to router

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Wireless to 2.4 Ghz wifi network next to router.

I still have concerns regarding the drop-off in upload speeds when using a wired connection to the asus router.

Thanks.
 
I think the problem is somewhere else in my line. I tried a different PC on a different ethernet outlet and was able to get gigagbit upload/downloads. It appears the problem is not in the router. Thanks for the help all!

UPDATE: Further investigation: I have been running all of my wired speedtests from my desktop which is an AMD Ryzen 9 based PC. This PC has been giving me poor upload speeds on a wired connection. I've been tweaking the Intel Network Adapter settings and have now gotten the upload speeds to around 450Mbs from 90Mbs. The settings I tweaked are:
Large Send Offload V2 (IPv4)- Enabled
Receive Buffers: 1024
Transmit Buffers: 2048

Results of speedtest after adapter tweaks:
Speedtest results: 912 Mbs Download/450 Mbps upload

The specs of this PC are:
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, MB: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon with 64 GB RAM

I tried the speed test on an older desktop on the same network:
speedtest results on PC #2: 849 Mbs Download/ 905 Mbps upload

The specs of the second PC are:
Intel i7-4770K, MB: AsusTek MAXIMUS VI Gene, 32 GB RAM

The newer, more powerful PC has slower upload speeds.

I will now investigate the drivers and MB firmware for updates, but my issue appears to be specific to the AMD-based PC.

Thanks.
 
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