Virgin network issue

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Hi,

Last week I changed from Sky Broadband (40mb connection) to Virgin (350mb)
I quickly realised that the Hub3 they provide is pants.
It was seeing my cat6 cabling and gigabit switch as 100mb connections (google searches, lots of people with same issue - advised to put the Hub3 into modem mode and use a better router).

I purchased a TP Link AC1900 Gigabit Router
All set up fine - wifi download speeds 350+

On checking my ethernet speeds - I am still only getting around 95mb
In W10 it shows the connection as 1gb, so I cannot understand what is slowing down the LAN connection?

It is driving me nuts, please help?
 
Gigabit switch under the stairs feeding cat6 around the house.
Plugged the laptop into all ports in all rooms and it sees them all as a 1gb connection (incl. where the router is connected).
Hub3 and router are in the living room, cat6 cables only used.

On the router it shows the ip of the LAN connections but it does not show the connection speed anywhere from what I can see?
The router is new to me so I may be missing something?
Is there a setting somewhere that I need to change, for the gigabit connection?
 
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Thanks for your advice.
When I checked all the connections with the laptop = and they all link to it showing a 1gb network connection -
Is there any way that any of those connections could be wired wrong or flaky, or would they not identify as 1gb on the laptop if there was a problem (EG: as they are showing 1gb then they are all fine)?
If that makes sense
 
Got sorted in the end.
The cat6 to my main PC had a flaky wall connection - fixed no issues.

The Hub3 will simply not see my cat6 and gigabit hub at full speed - scales it down to 100mb connection (tried everything but still the same).
Works fine through the TP Link router, which sees everything as a 1gb connection.
Lots of people with same issues with the Hub3 - very picky about what it will work with.
 
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