1 Gb/s Optical Fiber: Maximizing Actual Speed with Asus RT-N18U, Cat 5e Cable, & GA-Z270-HD3P

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Hi. Recently they connected my fiber with the speed of 1 Gb / s upload and download (1/1). The problem is that I do not know how to use the full potential of this internet. Speedtest tests show me speeds from 350 mbps to 500 mbps, the reserve is also quite big. The router I use for this...

internick · Answer

What's your ONT? And what speed is behind it bypassing the router?

paqani · Answer

@internick what ONT is it about? Because I am not too familiar with the subject of optical fibers and networks in general.

internick · Answer

Optical Network Terminal, i.e. the subscriber terminal to which the optical fiber enters.

paqani · Answer

@internick I have an SFP. I connected the converter directly to the computer (bypassing the router) and the speed on: speedtest.net download 502 Mb / s upload 179 Mb / s speedtest.pl download 460 Mb / s upload 550 Mb / s once showed me 543/592 Mb / s, respectively

internick · Answer

Producer? Model? If all the cables you have have similar results, then you get the same results from your ISP. You can of course buy a Cat6e patch cord for testing purposes.

paqani · Answer

A courier is due to come this afternoon because I ordered a new 10m UTP CAT.6 cable. I will also check this cable because it seems to me that all the cables in my house are cat 5e, although it should be sufficient.

PS. Probably the cable I got from the supplier with this converter is also category 6.

Anonymous · Answer

Okay, but what connections does your operator / supplier have? So what if you have 1Gb while the operator is connected to a link, eg 500Mb.

paqani · Answer

I am writing that in the contract I have 1 Gb / s / 1 Gb / s internet with P2P connection, so mine should have it supplier . Technicians also told me that there is no restriction on their side in this case ... They just send as much as they have to

Anonymous · Answer

In your contract you have up to 1 Gb / s or guaranteed 1 Gb / s? Without examining the exact path where the packets are going and the bandwidths of those connections, saying that you will always have 1 GB / s is basically a fair amount of abuse. Besides, your provider can guarantee anything only and including within his network, he has no influence on what happens on the link to the backbone - and no one will ever give you any guarantee that you will have 1Gb / s from any server in the world. How do you know if Steam has no connection restrictions? What are speedtest connections? Generally paper will accept any amount of gigabits.

Machetereal · Answer

Rather, the question is whether the operator provides you with all the speed that he declares to send, i.e. 1Gb / s / 1Gb / s. In my company, there is a custom that after installation, we show customers what speed is achieved on the link that has just been configured, if it is lower than what the customer ordered, we must ensure that it is appropriate (i.e. cleaning the connectors, welding from scratch, generally improving the attenuation parameters) , reflections, etc.). Did the technicians who assembled it prove at the end that you actually have this 1 per 1 Gb / s?

paqani · Answer

1000 Mb / s at 1000 Mb / s there is no word "to" there. In addition, they said that people who have optical fibers from them have different speeds at one 900 Mb / s and the other 600/700 and the difference in speeds is also terrible. And now the question is why is this so? That some have 900 Mb / s and others 600 Mb / s with the same tariff. This is what the technicians who connected me to the internet told me.

Added after 1 [minutes]:

@Machetereal No, they didn't prove it, because I had a router with LAN support up to 100 Mb / s that day, so you know ... Now I think about it, it is strange that they could connect to the PC directly from the converter instead of through the router and check speed. But they didn't.

Anonymous · Answer

Read a little how the internet works, you will understand that you will never have a 1000 Mb / s guarantee to any server in the world. It is simply not technically realistic. I see that INEA offers such connections, but also boasts that they have the fastest internet in Poland according to speedtest.pl. CLEAR - but only during testing to the test server located in their server room It's like you went to tune a car up to 1000 KM but you would get this result only on one dyno - in the factory what the tuning was doing

paqani · Answer

@atari_robbo Well, the internet I have 1 Gb / sa speed tests and everything else indicates that this speed is half as much. I understand that I would have a reception of 800 - 900 Mb / s, but if I wanted a fiber with a speed of 500 Mb / s, I would take one, not 1 Gb / s, which works like 500 ... Besides, I wrote that some people who have the same internet reach speeds of 900 Mb / s read from the same provider, the same plan and everything else identical. I don't want to be equal to 1000 Mb / s because that's not what I mean. You accept the belief that I want to have 1 Gb / s because I have it and I want to have it anyway - NO. I just know that the same internet works quietly up to 900 Mb / s if it was 700 I would be happy too. Now I have 450 Mb / s

Anonymous · Answer

You still don't understand the fundamental problem. You got a car with 280 km / h on the clock. But this does not mean that you will reach any place in Poland at a speed of 280 km / h. Some people achieve this much on race tracks. But you won't go out into the world this fast. It is the same with you - maybe you will have 800-900Mbps for test servers, but only for them. Call your ISP and advertise that you have half of what you have to the test server.

paqani · Answer

Okay. Also, even if I had a speed of 50 Mb / s with a contract signed for 1 Gb / s, you will also say that it is the fault of the test servers and all? Somehow it does not convince me. In this case, providers can offer the latest internet up to 10 Gb / s or up to 100 Gb / s because they can. And if someone objects and says that he shows him 100 Mb / s on the speed test instead of 100,000 Mb / s, they will say that it is a problem of the testing server and it is difficult.

Anonymous · Answer

But the speed where 50 Mb / s?

paqani · Answer

Oh, yeah, because you are constantly exploring the topic of speed tests and servers ... It is known that you cannot trust it and only on this basis actually talk about this speed, but it is indicative. Also speedtest shouldn't lie by more than 500 Mb / s. The more that he selects the fastest available server and tests the speed on it. And in this case the server that connects automatically to speedtest is at max. 15 km from my location

icosie · Answer

How do you get it written in the contract? Upload scans / photos (whiten sensitive data) If you do not have to or guaranteed subscription, advertise the service until it is successful.

Anonymous · Answer

paqani.png Download (54.95 kB) You are sitting on the left side, on the right side is the game server. All network traffic must go from left to right and then back in. Thick lines are the links between suppliers / operators and clouds are their networks. The green dot is the test server you get excited about. Can you see why it won't work? Because there are lines between providers whose bandwidth is shared by tens of thousands of users. As other customers of your provider stream netflix in FullHD, you will have less bandwidth because your provider connects to the rest of the Internet is not made of rubber.

paqani · Answer

@icosie

Anonymous · Answer

This is only confirmation that your ISP has provided you with a device called LAN Fiber 1/1 Gbps. There is nothing in there about guarantees for anything.

paqani · Answer

@atari_robbo You have talent and irony too. He understands you perfectly from the very beginning. I will wait for now, maybe someone else will be able to help me or come up with something else. Thanks. Added after 1 [minutes]: LANfiber 1/1 Gb / sa service name the device name is written above. In the contract, I have blurred it there is Device replacement and service change

icosie · Answer

Take a look at the regulations and the contract, because this is only a protocol for leaving the device with you.

m.jastrzebski · Answer

Because the operator guarantees that the cable they have installed between their network and your home offers this speed. But the speeds in the rest of the Internet cannot be guaranteed by CI. You are absolutely right, hardly any testing server offers such speeds. Most websites in the world limit their speed to a single session. They are looking for websites that will send you data at this speed.

seb235 · Answer

From what I read correctly, you pay for it PLN 39 / month, so you have no reason to complain, even with 500Mb / s.

By the way, I wonder what your ISP is guided by when connecting people in 2018 in Active Ethernet technology. I thought that such media converters are used today for other purposes than connecting subscribers.

internick · Answer

If you search on YT, it turns out that Ookla will easily handle around 1 Gb / s:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpkYhZ2MsM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0ln779AJg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eAVCcS6Gs
It looks like a bottleneck on the ISP side to me.
And as a colleague noted above. You have some weird connection mode. Were it not for this 99% deal, I would have said that it works in the British Isles.

VaM VampirE · Answer

For one thing, speedtest is no magic, there may not be active servers in your area that will handle such traffic, and if you aim at the "world", speedtest will kill you on bottlenecks, small operators.

A good connection with CIR and, for example, direct access to AS5617, with a speed of 300/300 Mb / s, is about PLN 1,500 net per month.
And this is quite a nice offer. Guarantee that 99.98% of the time is what is in the contract.
Even so, sometimes there will be an outsource in the road and the speeds will be terrible for it.

Now how to test the link more objectively? You install a torrent, SSD disk (we remember that we are testing ~ 111MB / s, so we go to thepiratebay, in the top 100 section, e.g. porn (well the world is the world, but we find the most seeds there). We set very large session limits in the torrent and download at once about 20-30 torrents, it will kill any link, no exception ^^
Worse with uload.

Gatki · Answer

At INEA, having 1Gb / s on tests in Poland, it was about 800,900 / Mb / s, it depends on what and where the server on steam I reached even 80MB / s at full speed, it was impossible to pull out, but it was not so bad.

In the next location I will take 600Mb / s from INEA but it can be used 100%

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

In total, I also do not see the word that the Co operator delivers speed. It mentions the type of service (and hardware) - but no word about speed. And 1Gb will probably be - around 3-4 am when everyone is asleep.

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