Sorry for the delay - it's been a crazy few days!

See inline below.

--
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs



On 12 December 2012 14:42, Matthijs Kooijman - Fon <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> > When running a speedtest (via speedtest.net) from either wired or
> wireless
> > clients, I get approx 2Mb download speed.
> Weird. Do you see the same speed when downloading actual files from a
> fast source?
>

I'm afraid I didn't look at it, I was trying not to rant at the Virgin
Media support guy, and then was back-peddling too hard to figure out where
the issue came from.


> In some tests a did a year or so ago, the 2.0n was able to do around
> 94 Mbit/s, so there shouldn't be any fixed limit here.
>
> I guess there is some kind of problem, but I'm not really sure what it
> would be.
>

I'm not actually convinced now that there was. I suspect it was more likely
that I had other network traffic which was saturating the link when the FON
device (with 4 populated interfaces) was connected, than when I had one
device connected to test as per the support person's advice. I am getting
slower speeds over WiFi (802.11n) than directly connected, but that's
currently going to the "SuperHub" rather than the FON device, so I can't
blame that either :)


> > I get approx 58Mb download speed. Likewise, changing the Modem mode to
> > Hub mode I have the same issue.
> What is "Modem mode" and "Hub mode" exactly?
>

Modem = Media Converter (ish) - Fibre -> Ethernet
Hub = Router + WiFi


> > I've not particularly seen any signs of packet loss between the two
> > devices, so I was wondering whether it might be processor use or
> > something similar.
> Perhaps if the CPU is somehow loaded with other tasks (transmission?),
> it could be possible that the network throughput suffers, though I
> haven't actually tested this.
>

The only thing being performed on the FON device is NAT, I run no
applications aside from the OpenVPN (and even that wasn't being utilized at
the time)


> If your modem performs NAT in one of it's configuration, you could try
> switching the Fonera to bridge mode, meaning it will connect its WAN and
> LAN ports in a plain layer-2 switch / bridge configuration, removing the
> need for packets to pass through the CPU at all.
>

I'm doing that at the moment, and it certainly fulfils my requirements for
right now.


> Regards,
>
> Matthijs Kooijman
>

Thanks for your help Matthijs.

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