Hello again:)
I’m using Cat 6 cables and is about 3 meter from the modem..So i think i should be good right??
regards
I had a 3m CAT6 cable, and at some point after having some issues with a router, I’ve tried to switch my cable as well. At that point it didn’t solve the issue, but afterwards, I found that using CAT8 cable increased my Internet speeds to 800/900Mbps on 1Gbps connection. Previously on CAT6 cable I had 300/200mbit limit. Which is ridiculous, because its supposed to hold up to 10Gbps. I don’t know what kind of interference I’m having around the router, but it’d be interesting to find that out. If someone knows what kind of equipment is better to use to measure EM fields, would be glad to get a hint =). I live in a kilometer range from high voltage power lines, and 3km from local electrical grid station.
Back to the subject of a 5009 router problem - if one person got it working at above 1Gpbs on 2.5G connection, and the rest could not, this could be something everyone is doing wrong. I haven’t got this router yet, but was planning to purchase one to have 2.5G LAN with low deployment cost. Could someone please test all their devices used in setup separately and using CAT8 cables? Thank you.
CAT6 alone does not say anything about shielding.
Hello,
I have a RB5009 in production and works perfectly, I got it right when it came out and just swapped my RB4011 with it.
I have 11d of uptime, no issues with the 2.5g port or the 10g SFP+(that is connected to a CRS305), also no link flapping at all.
I think that the issues that some people are having with the 2.5G port is most probably issue with the another end, as I have seen the issues most happen with Cable Modems, I have seen issues with Broadcomm based devices that have weird behaviours when connected at 2.5G. I have a 2.5G AX access point that was having some slow speed (client upload capped to 100mbps) when the 2.5g port was linked at 2.5G, that did not happened when the same port was set to 1G. Note that this happened to when I was still using the RB4011 and it was connected to the CRS305 and the AP connected to the same port using a MK SFP+ to RJ45 10g module.
Hi
I have just set up my router, But there is a weird problem. on Ethernet2 it can’t advertise 1000m half or full. i have connected my 1g device to it they communicate with 100m and when i moved my device to other port the link was up with 1000m. when i forced the 1g advertise to eth2, no link was established.
is my device defected ?
I just tried a CAT 8 cable, and the only difference was my wallet was $8 lighter. Same poor (480Mbps) download performance with a 2.5Gbps link. Changing the router-to-modem link to 1Gbps gives me 900Mbps downloads.
Y’all having issues with your 2.5g WAN connections are posting info only about one-half of the puzzle, and your omission of any discussion concerning other aspects involved in determining compatibility is telling.
The speed of the data connection your ISP is providing to you, in this case 2.5g, is a necessary, but not sufficient condition to establish a 2.5g connection through your 2.5g port on your MT router.
What standard is your ISP using? There is a ton of information on the internet, going back several years, concerning compatibility issues with ISP’s 2.5g data service, especially with respect to 2.5g GPON (but not limited to 2.5g GPON).
When such compatibility issues arise, the most common result appears to be routers falling back to negotiating a 1g connection. This happens to match perfectly the circumstances that several people in this thread claim to have experienced.
Below are various discussions, some quite of extensive, concerning router compatibility issues with 2.5g connections. The first link is to the granddaddy of all effort to make personal routers work with an ISP’s 2.5g service.
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlefiber/comments/mmgiym/google_fiber_2g_directly_connected_to_my_unifi/
The links you provided are not at all applicable to this issue. Those links are about using Google 2.5g over fiber. The RB5009 problem is with the 2.5g copper port. The 2.5g port doesn’t have any issues connecting at 2.5g and will run at full speed if you test from a PC on the SFP+ port connected at 2.5/5/10g. The problem is that any 1g devices on your network will get around 500mbps. Mikrotik has confirmed the issue on their side and is working on a fix.
Where did Mikrotik confirm the issue and state that they are working on a fix? I was hoping that was the case but did not find anything official.
They confirmed it in a support ticket with forum user wojo, post is here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/rb5009-slow-speed-2-5g-bug-report-as-requested/155362/10
Mikrotik support has some alpha firmware builds (dated Feb 25) that seem to fix the issue. I’d expect something to be released in the dev channel before too long.
I tried 4 different versions dated Feb 25.. Version 7.99. Unfortunately the issue was not resolved for me with that version, did anyone else have better luck?
I did have one PC with a 2.5gbps Asus USB network adapter that was acting a little strange. Enabled flow control and updated the Realtek driver and it started acting a bit more consistent. Here’s my results after working that out (just pasting what I sent to Mikrotik)
I have tested all four versions and the first three appear to fix the issue. The fourth appears to be a bit better than the current stable firmware version but does still have reduced speed when going from the 2.5gbps WAN to a 1gbps PC.
ISP bandwidth is 1.2gbps but can sometimes go a little higher (1.3 or even 1.4)
7.1.3
1GB ISP / 1GB PC
949.13mbps down
41.83mbps up
2.5GB ISP / 2.5GB PC
1281.56mbps down
41.91mbps up
2.5GB ISP / 1GB PC
Lower than expected - 377.87mbps down
41.91mbps up
Test fw v1
2.5GB ISP / 1GB PC
939mbps down
41.88mbps up
2.5GB ISP / 2.5GB PC
1302.56mbps down
38.62mbps up
Setting speeds to advertise on sfp plus port not working
Test fw v2
Approx the same as test v1
Test v3
Approx the same as test v1
Test v4
2.5GB ISP / 1GB PC
Lower than expected - Varying, between 600 and 815mbps down
41.89mbps up
2.5GB ISP / 2.5GB PC
1300mbps down
Are you plugging the 1G clients directly into the RB5009? When I do that the new FW is a bit better, but my typical setup has the RB5009 connected via 10G DAC to my switch, the 1G clients in there saw no noticeable improvement while the 10G clients in the same switch still got ~1400Mbps.
For the the above tests I had each device connected directly to the RB5009. I do have a switch connected to the RB5009 with multiple 1G links using LACP. I just tested with my PC in the switch and it seems to give the full 1G. I don’t have a 10G switch at home unfortunately.
I’ve tested all four 7.99’s. I use ether5,6,7,8 as LACP. I tried 1G and 2.5G on ether1. Looks like all builds do not increase speed above 1G in any settings. (Use different computers at the same time, It’s combined speed). 1G +2G(LACP) gives 450Mbits + 450Mbits - total < 1G
V1: 2.5G - 937Mbits
1G - 938Mbits
V2: 2.5G - 935Mbits
1G - 938Mbits
V3: 2.5G - 860Mbits
1G - 935Mbits
V4: 2.5G - 425Mbits
1G - 933Mbits
7.2rc4 2.5G - 230Mbits
1G - 945Mbits
Direct cat6a 30" 2.5G NIC to cable modem 2.5G port gives 2040Mbits
Really interesting that some people are not seeing it fixed.
For me V1, V2 and V3 gave full 2.3Gbps both ways. V4 was a tad slower, 800-900Mbps start and it would go up from there.
What is your setup? What are your ports?
I’ve tested ether1 connected to 2.5G(full duplex) cable modem (2G service), and two 1G NIC computers on ether 2 and ether3. Running my ISP speed test on one and Google speed test on other at the same time. Speed drops on a first computer when I started second test on a second computer. Combined speed never exceeded 1G on V1,V2, 800M on V3 and 400M on V4
My topology is:
2.5G AT&T UVerse —copper—> 2.5G – RB5009 – 10G SFP+ ----10G DAC-----> CRS238 10G SFP+
then off that switch, a mixture of
- Direct 10G SFP host
- Direct 1G host
- 10G SFP+ to 10GBaseT (over Cat5e) to 10G SFP+ on another CRS238 10G or TPLink 10G switch
- … and that CRS238 or TPLink to other 10G or 1G hosts
In all situations, I’m getting a full 2.3Gbps with V1/2/3 both ways via AT&T.
My test shows switching between ether1 and rest of 1G ports not working correctly.
Any way, it’s great, they fixed SFP+ and ether1 communication. Time to put copper module into SFP+
BTW, what SFP+ module do you have in there? I heard Mikrotik’s one is running too hot.