Re: Upgrading
 

Yeah, a tech told me that all they do is shub3's now and it is the easy option for them as far as guaranteeing speed goes. You can get away with keeping your current tivo box. They send you a shub and tivo in a box for you to hook up yourself and you ring an automated number when you are done to get them registered. I didnt connect my new tivo either and had no probs getting the shub up and running.

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200 I believe you can keep your SH2, but for 300 you need the SH3.

Weirdly I'm having speed issues after upgrading, on 200 i could max it out 24/7 at 220, however since upgrading to 300, i'm having issues hitting that majority of the time.

The area is fine for 200 as I had no issues before upgrading, so how come now i'm on 300 i'm not able to even hit the same speeds?...

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/11/30.png

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Perhaps the same reason I cannot.
My (home) router is not powerful enough to run much above 240/250.
So even though I'm now on 350, I cannot actually achieve that (unless I plug directly into the modem).

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Shouldn't be, I've got a unifi security gateway which can route internal traffic at 1gig (network max), WAN port etc are all Gigabit too.

I'll keep an eye on it and if it doesn't pick up I'll speak to virgin

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funnily enough just because you have got gigabit ports doesn't mean you can get gigabit speeds. I can remember years ago there was a Linksys router which sounded great on paper for the price. I can't remember which model it was but it had gigabit ports but the killer is that it could only do 90mbits wan to lan throughput. It caught loads of people out because this was when people were upgrading to the 100mbit and 120mbits new formed upper tiers. I used to be in the same position as Paul M and had no probs getting max speed when I was on 200mbits but I bought a new router earlier this year knowing that I would be going up to 300+. My new one (Asus AC68u) is good for something like 980mbits.

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Because of this thread I decided to reboot my Shub3, just in case.

Good news!

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/11/31.png

It seems that 350Mb is going beyond mere trials. I had noted the other day, that for the first time ever, that I was getting TBB tests close to 300Mb. Previously I was getting less than 200Mb, with a big difference between the single and multi-thread result. It seems that the local network has been upgraded too.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/11/32.png


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/11/33.png


The increased rigour on ISPs providing advertised speeds during peak periods may have something to do with this too. It's been in the news only this week.

Re: Upgrading
 

ya, if you have a look at your config you will see you have been provisioned for 400 mbits.

Re: Upgrading
 

Well I feel like an idiot.

Updated my NIC drivers and now getting 380ish consistently - doesn't explain why i was sometimes maxing out, and sometimes not... far as i know there's no contention issues in my area.

Ah well, not gonna complain if it's working :)

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The USG is an excellent device, but the speed of the NICs being gigabit is not the relevant part.

Nat traffic, especially QoS has an overhead.

If you are using the USG-3P, it will max out at about 150mbit with QoS on due to the CPU overhead.


https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-...e/td-p/1574906

Obviously internal traffic has no NAT or QoS applied and will hit 1G easily.

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No QoS set up, DPI is disabled too so nothing like that on.

It's fine now anyway :) https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/11/35.png

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Yay! :)

I would like to use a USG, all my in home wifi kit is ubiquiti, but I am using an i5-5250u running Sophos UTM, as I need filtering etc to stop kids getting on inappropriate sites.

This is the hardware I'm using:
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...800711474.html

I've even used outbound nat to intercept all DNS requests and enforce safesearch, block the use of workarounds like Iodine (effectively VPN over DNS) etc.

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Yeah! I had noticed. This level of provisioning virtually guarantees that I will get >300Mb even at peak times. Never had problem anyway, but pleased to have a 100Mb margin of error.

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Very nice, we use Sophos UTM at work (dedicated hardware) and it's very nice, never realised how untrustworthy our staff were before we got this!

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internet went off last night about 01:00 .... I’m now on 24 download channels and 3 upload with the 400Mbps config! :)

South Shields!

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VM bod had no idea what I was on about, so I'll try again and hopefully get someone who speaks English as first language.