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RAX200 Multi-Gig Port to 2.5Gbps on Sagmecom F@st 3896 - limited to 1Gbps?
Hello Community, My ISP now provides 2Gbps speed. They provided a Sagemcom F@st 3896 cable modem that has a 2.5Gbps port. I have a 2.5Gbps USB-C ethernet adapter that I used for plugging my ...
A couple things.
1. like microchip8 says. don't use the built in speedtest app. It rarely will even max out a 1gig connection. Much less a 2gig. It why I recommend using a wired in device at speeds over 500mbps. Under that speed, the built in test is usually fine.
2. Problem with that is, the RAX200 only has the 1x 2.5gig port. All the other ports are 1gig. So if you connect a pc/laptop to the lan ports, you're going to end up with the 1gig max connection. It does support lan port aggregation that you can connect to and try. Otherwise you're limited to trying to speedtest using more than 1 device at a time.
3. Even if you do manage to either use lan port aggregation to test or using more than 1 device at a time, I haven't found a speedtest site that is reliable at over 1 gig speeds. My isp supports up to 1.2 gig and sometimes their site will hit 1.0, other times it'll hit 1.2. And I've tried a few other sites and its pretty variable over that 1 gig speeds. So you might need to try a few different test sites and even servers on those sites to saturate the connection.