Need a bit of help/advice if someone could spare me a few mins.
Virgin have recently kindly upgraded me to 152m but I've been unable to achieve beyond 90-95 ever.
I left it a little while thinking that things would catch up but they didn't. I run my SH2 in modem only mode which feeds my old trusty Draytek 2830n for routing. I dont use the wireless on it at all but use ubiquiti AP's dotted around.
I tried ditching the 2830 the other day and plugged the SH2 straight into my PC (still in modem mode) and got 144m. Then tried switching it back to router mode and got pretty much the same speeds. Seems my 2830 is not up to the job even though it's supposed to have a gigabit switch internally and gigabit on the Wan2 port.
The simple solution would be to use the SH2 but it lacks the feature set of the 2830, some of which I dont want to go without. The most important is to be able to change bandwidth limits per static IP and also have a default limit.
I've no need for a wireless router and am open to a self built bit of kit - I used to be a smoothwall user many moons ago and would be happy to learn/build whatever I need within a reasonable budget. Whatever I get would have to be power efficient as an priority, don't really want some old PC sucking electricity for no particular reason.
Anyway if anyone has some advice/pointers I'd appreciate it
Virgin have recently kindly upgraded me to 152m but I've been unable to achieve beyond 90-95 ever.
I left it a little while thinking that things would catch up but they didn't. I run my SH2 in modem only mode which feeds my old trusty Draytek 2830n for routing. I dont use the wireless on it at all but use ubiquiti AP's dotted around.
I tried ditching the 2830 the other day and plugged the SH2 straight into my PC (still in modem mode) and got 144m. Then tried switching it back to router mode and got pretty much the same speeds. Seems my 2830 is not up to the job even though it's supposed to have a gigabit switch internally and gigabit on the Wan2 port.
The simple solution would be to use the SH2 but it lacks the feature set of the 2830, some of which I dont want to go without. The most important is to be able to change bandwidth limits per static IP and also have a default limit.
I've no need for a wireless router and am open to a self built bit of kit - I used to be a smoothwall user many moons ago and would be happy to learn/build whatever I need within a reasonable budget. Whatever I get would have to be power efficient as an priority, don't really want some old PC sucking electricity for no particular reason.
Anyway if anyone has some advice/pointers I'd appreciate it
