FVS318G Wan Speed Issue

[SamirD]

Uncheck all the firewall filters suggested earlier in this thread.  Those may help get it to the full 30.

[gearneterb]

Samir,

Thank you for the sugestions.  I have now tried:

 - Three Port Speed settings (AutoSense [which seems to connect 1000Mbps according to the green LEDs], 100 FD and 100 HD.

 - All firewall filters unchecked (TCP Flood and UDP Flood]

 - Unmanaged switch (GS105) between modem and router

Results:

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Computer direct to modem (with and without switch): 30 Mbps down, 6.05 up

Computer via router (with & without switch): 18.6 Mbps down. 6.1 Mbps up

Down speed is slightly slower (~18.0-18.2) when Port Speed set to 100 instead of AutoSense

BTW, I finally spotted the firmware version: 3.0.8-12

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Eb

[BrianL2]

Hi gearneterb,

It appears that you're only using a FVS318G. Based on the product datasheet, this model only supports 25mbps LAN-WAN throughput.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

[SamirD]

If Brian is right, then 18 down may be the best you're going to get.

[okokok]

Why not 20-25 rather than 18Mbps?

[BrianL2]

Hi okokok,

There are other router features or services that might be using the internet traffic on the background. Check if you have VPN enabled, Firewall rules or other services that needs internet.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

[SamirD]

Best I can figure is some sort of overhead, although I'd be more inclined to think it was something configured that keeps it from its full spec.

[gearneterb]

Brian & Samir, et al.,

Brian is correct; I am "only using a FVS318G".  But I would ask the same as okokok; why only 18 Mbps down when the spec is 25?

There are no other services or devices running at the time.  No firewall rules, no VPN.  No Internet consumers other than a single PC (running only speedtest) on the LAN side.

Under what test conditions does this product actually reach it's specified WAN-LAN throughput?

Spec says 25 Mbps down, we should be able to get 25.  Not 18.

[SamirD]

I agree with you.  Details of the test environment where they got the unit to hit 25 would be very helpful.

[gearneterb]

Hey BrianL:

Can you get the test conditions for us so that we can verify that our hardware meets its published performance specification?

Thanks,

Eb

[gearneterb]

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