Getting the best speed from my new broadband

[craig.sdunn]

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

 

[craig.sdunn]

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