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sony007 said:
I got my CF installed today and I am up and running...ish. It took the engineer 2 hours to finish, he did a good job - the router is huge - at least compared to the virgin hub 5 that will cease working tomorrow. My question though is, naturally I want to test the 3Gig speed, so I connected the ethernet cable into the LAN 10GB port on the and into my MacBook, done a speed test and I'm getting 920+ up and down only. Is there a setting i need to adjust to get the speed for 3Gpbs?
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Grats on going with the 3gbps connection, if I waited a few weeks before my renewal I might have got it too when it came down during Black Friday sales and was almost the same as what I pay right now for 1gbps. Anyway, as abve by @Typhoon, are you using the right connection on the router? There's 1 WAN port that goes to the ONT that's 10g I believe, and there's other 1gb ports, and 1 10gb port (might be in silver). Are you connecting to the 10g one to your thunderbolt port or the normal 1gb connections to your port?
 
It has two thunderbolt ports (up to 10 Gbps) on the Mac. Could it be the ethernet cable maybe? I think it just a standard cable. Yeah, it's definitely in the 10Gig port on the router.
 
sony007 said:
Could it be the ethernet cable maybe? I think it just a standard cable.
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Depends on the age of the cable I guess (self made or premade). In theory a Cat5e cable should be fine at such short distances for 10g. If you can, try a different cable I would say, can't hurt.

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Oh, it's a direct connection as well yes? Just to be sure? The cable isn't going off to another switch before reaching you right? And, forgive me but I'm not too familiar with thunderbolt tech, but the thunderbolt port is 10g, but is the ethernet adapater plugged in 10g as well? Or is it a 1g adapter plugged into the 10g thunderbolt port?
 
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Meddling-Monk said:
Depends on the age of the cable I guess (self made or premade). In theory a Cat5e cable should be fine at such short distances for 10g. If you can, try a different cable I would say, can't hurt.

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Oh, it's a direct connection as well yes? Just to be sure? The cable isn't going off to another switch before reaching you right? And, forgive me but I'm not too familiar with thunderbolt tech, but the thunderbolt port is 10g, but is the ethernet adapater plugged in 10g as well? Or is it a 1g adapter plugged into the 10g thunderbolt port?
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That’s a valid point about the adapter, I purchased the adapter about 6-7 years ago. I think the purpose at the time was just so I could plug in an Ethernet cable, so didn’t consider speed capability. I assume that I can get an adapter which will allow for speed of 3Gbps or is it only up to 2.5Gbps?
 
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That’s a valid point about the adapter, I purchased the adapter about 6-7 years ago. I think the purpose at the time was just so I could plug in an Ethernet cable, so didn’t consider speed capability. I assume that I can get an adapter which will allow for speed of 3Gbps or is it only up to 2.5Gbps?
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A quick look around online suggests it follows the same bands for normal network speeds; so you should be able to grab a 2.5g adapter to get 2.5g speeds, or a 5g adapater for the full 3g speeds, or grab a full 10g adapter.

However, of note, is that it looks like 10g and 2.5g are the most common, with 5g barely there or available. So it looks like your options are to grab a 10g adapter that will auto-negotiate down the fastest it can go. Or grab 2.5g and miss out only a tiny bit of speed possible from CF 3g connection.
 
SupraWez said:
From memory QNAP also sell 10gb adapters, not sure on the price though.
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QNAP 10gb adapters price looks OK I would say. It looks like all the Thunderbolt stuff for 10g is near £200 and onwards. Really wild stuff pricing wise I think (but I'm looking at that from a deskstop perspective, laptop users would have course have less options and of course this is the better connectivity route, but at cost - when the users require it).

SupraWez said:
920 up/down is bang on the money for what you will see out of 1gb :)
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That's why I wondered if they had accidentally used the 1gb ports instead of the 10gb one on their router. But we got around to the cause quickly enough where they didn't need to spend or do more (hopefully). Just waiting on their new 10gb adapter and should see the 3gb connection then.
 
The Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter will be arriving tomorrow morning as per the tracking information. I paid £86 which included the postage on EBay. I actually saw QNAP on after I purchased it and had a search to see if I could find that cheaper, but the few that were there were all over £200+ so besides the cosmetics aspect, I didn’t really see the need to spend that much on that particular item.

I can’t lie, when I initially started looking for a 10G Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter and saw the prices, I was like WTF, I paid £12 for the one which I currently use not realising until now it’s limitations, even though it served it’s purpose for what I needed it for and the broadband speed I was had.
 
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Just done a speed test on Speedtest.net with the Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter: 3132.20 Mbps download & 3169.09 Mbps. Thanks guys for the assistance, much appreciated.
 
I'm trying to connect my Asus router for now to the internet by connecting it to the CF Technicolor router as my Virgin hub 5 router which was previously connected to the Asus - as of 12am last night is no longer in use. I have connected the end of the ethernet cable which I took out of the virgin hub and plugged it into the red ethernet port at the back of the Technicolor, but there's no internet connection coming from the Asus router and there's a red light to indicate this where usually it would be white. I know for the hub 5 I had to put it into modem mode. Is it possible to have the Asus connected in this way? For now, I would prefer this option as quite a few devices are already connected to the Asus router.
 
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Yeah, I did try using one of the 1Gig ports, still no internet. Do you know if it’s meant to be possible?
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It's def possible, I have an old BT Smart Hub 1 (and before that a BT Home Hub 4a and a 5 that plugged in and then were able to be used as Access Points). So I assume it's your Virgin Router that needs it's settings changed to permit it to be possible.

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In my case my Access Points only needed to be connected via the normal (yellow) network ports (or further down the line after a switch).
 
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Meddling-Monk said:
It's def possible, I have an old BT Smart Hub 1 (and before that a BT Home Hub 4a and a 5 that plugged in and then were able to be used as Access Points). So I assume it's your Virgin Router that needs it's settings changed to permit it to be possible.

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In my case my Access Points only needed to be connected via the normal (yellow) network ports (or further down the line after a switch).
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It would be the Technicolor router that would potentially require permission to be granted to the Asus router if that is what’s needed. But as you mentioned, I also thought I just had to plug in the Ethernet cable into the CF technicolor router.
 
The DHCP services etc are disabled on the Asus router yes? Or put into Access Point (AP) mode?

Try to connect from the yellow network ports (1g) from the CF Router to the Asus normal network ports once you're sure the above is true. It should be automatic at that point.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
The DHCP services etc are disabled on the Asus router yes? Or put into Access Point (AP) mode?

Try to connect from the yellow network ports (1g) from the CF Router to the Asus normal network ports once you're sure the above is true. It should be automatic at that point.
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I haven't changed any setting on the Asus router which had internet access until my Virgin contract terminated last night, I just removed the ethernet cable from the virgin router to the technicolor router. I'm back indoors now so will try plugging the ethernet cable into one of the 1gig ports again.
 
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