Ciao tutti, buonasera.
Long day setting up the new network so hope it's ok if I share this in English.
OF Engineer arrived today for the install. I'd prepared everything I could (opened all the tombini, put a sonda down from where I wanted the ONT installed to outside). Nice guy, very helpful (even if we had to use my existing Copper wire to pull the fibre as it was quite impossible to pass the sonda). Anyway, after a couple of hours he was done. PON light was illuminated on the ONT and handed over to me.
Connected the TP Link Deco BE25 to the 10Gb port of the ONT and after a few minutes PPPOE was up (I'd inserted the user/password/Vlan details) - yay! Hit the "Test Internet Connection" on the TP Link Deco app and was relieved to see a 2.4gbps/2.4gbps down/up result. Exactly what I was hoping for, That was at 5pm today.
For the past 5 hours I've been trying to actually "use" this amazing bandwidth but it's impossible.
Overall I have 9 Deco Mesh units, ie. 3xBE25 3xM4 and 3xM5 Deco units. I factory reset them all and set them all up, one-by-one, on a desk next to the ONT. I wanted to eliminate all issues related to walls and interferance from other networks. The house is detached and away from all other Wireless, yet the results were quite disappointing.
I've posted these on the TP-Link forum but thought I'd briefly share in case anyone is thinking of going down my route.
So first thing's first. The master unit is configured as the master router. WAN port to the ONT, LAN port to my 2.5Gbps USB3 Network adapter (Ugreen). Device syncs with the router at 2.5gbps but speedtests (using the app, not the website) max out at 150mbps. ooops - not what I was expecting.
Switch to Wireless. I have a HP Envy with AX201 Wireless NIC which supports 160ghz. Card syncs to the Deco BE25 main unit at 2.5gbps - but speedtest still tops out at 1.2gbps. I'm using the MLO network (combined 2.4/5 ghz) which should get 2.4gbps.
After losing a lot of time trying different cables etc. with the family becoming impatient I start to position the Mesh units to try to "paint the home with Wifi" (as TP Link). Nice marketing - doesn';t map to reality - even with NINE units (basically one per room).
On the plus side, at least I didn;t wast money on a 10Gb router when 'real world' is so disappointing. I'm going to try a couple of different 2.5Gb NICS (yes, the USB port is 3.1), to see if I can at least see a decent speedtest result from an end device (not just the router) with a cable.
I'm tempted to send back the TP-Link BE25 DECO and try something better (Fritz) to see if I can at least get a LAN cable test running at 2.5gbps, connecting this to the M4/M5 - even if this will be limited to 866mb.
Next test tomorrow morning will be to get the NIC direct to the ONT to see what speeds I get from there.
I wish I hadn't over promised to my daughter. when I finally reconnected her M5 in her bedroom and she compared before/after, of course 150mb is better than 50mb - but I'd promised 500mb/s , so felt a bit of a failure.
Ah well, onwards and upwards...
Thanks for reading. Notte. Kevin
