Getting the best speed from my new broadband

craig.sdunn · 23 Oct 2023 at 23:09

Hi all,

I have recently had a broadband upgrade to full fibre. I have gone for the mid range which is 160mbps.

However I have found I get nowhere near that, running speed test cli I get around 40mbps, and my WiFi test show around 60mbps so, not great.

I have a mikrotik routerboard active as a access point so I can use my own DNS. The routerboard only supports 2.4Ghz and it only has 10/100 ethernet so, I suspect this is my bottleneck.

I have been looking at the mikrotik hap ac2 which is dual band plus it has gigabit ethernet. I'm thinking if I get as much as I can on 5Ghz and if it's wired on gigabit that should help. I am not expecting miracles but currently I'm seeing no difference from my old broadband speed to my new but I should have 100gb more.

Is there anything else I should be aware of? Is this a good start

Haze · 24 Oct 2023 at 05:01

Have you tried asking your broadband provider.....

Are you FFTP? Or FFTC?

ChrisD. · 24 Oct 2023 at 07:07

Who is the ISP? Usually they would provide a router. Use theirs.

craig.sdunn · 24 Oct 2023 at 07:49

I'm with Sky, I would use the Sky router but I can't change the DNS it uses so, I put it in router mode and use my own.

I'm on FTTP, I did call them but all their tests showed 160 to my router which is when I started looking at it

Haze · 24 Oct 2023 at 09:35

Do you get 160 with the sky router? Would help narrow things down a bit more

ChrisD. · 24 Oct 2023 at 09:39

craig.sdunn said:
I'm with Sky, I would use the Sky router but I can't change the DNS it uses so, I put it in router mode and use my own.

You can however change the DNS that your clients use.

Orcvader · 24 Oct 2023 at 12:12

For the sake of testing, revert the Sky hub back to full modem/router mode and test with a wired client attached to it. Which speed test are you using as well? For speedtest.net you may want to try different servers.