Hey guys, I recently upgraded my WAN to 1gbps. I thought I will do some testing to see if I can get around that speed. I ran btest from my AP to different destinations and it looks like I cant get more than around 600mbps. I realized I have CAT5e cable running from my optical fibre converter to my Mikrotik so I thought it may be a reason. So, I replaced it with CAT6A, but still get same test results. Any thouths on where to look for a problem? Or is this normal? Thanks!
This would correspond to the information on the homepage of mikrotik with active fast path and if it concerns 64byte packets.
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2#fndtn-testresults
But I assume that you have not tested with such small packages.
Therefore 1Gbps should be possible from the router.
Greetings
Michael
Do not run btest from your router… Run it from your (wired) computer.
I have the RB450Gx4, very much same specs on speed and ipsec results and very close on CPU/processor etc.
I had no issues getting close to 1 gig on my 1 gig connection so your result of 600mpbs can be improved.
Concur with above comments, my non-rigourous test was via OKLA and it selected two of my ISP connections which is obviously going to be the fastest possible.
Once your signal goes beyond your ISP, then its no longer the router slowing things down.
Ensure you are actually getting 1 gig into the modem from the ISP side and that your cables to router and from router to your devices are up to snuff as well.
Thanks guys for your advices. My laptop is piece of crap so I cant really make real test with it. However, I ended up setting up a powerful VM in Azure and running btest server on it. The results were close to 990mbps with it, so I assume the other btest servers I was using were on a lower bandwidth. It looks like we are good! Thanks