Hi guys, I managed to get hold of a Dlink DIR-850L or what unifi installers like to
call the trashcan(Tong Sampah) router because of its' godawful wireless performance
but surprisingly it outperformed the more popular tplink c1200 which is what the installers
are pushing to new customers nowadays.


It was left by a Tm technician who was attending
a service call at my friend's house because he had complained about not getting the
full 800mbps after being turbo-ed. I just used the wizard to configure it and made sure
that the B.T.U. was connected to the router by a newly bought cat 6 cable and that the connection
between the PC and router was also cat 6 and i managed to get more than 800 mbps when
performing a speedtest via ethernet.



The above speedtest score was obtained on a PC connected directly to the DIR-850L via cat6 cable.
So for great wired internet performance, you could use this router provided you are not
too bothered about the lousy wireless performance. It beat out the tplink c1200 which only
gets about 400 to 500 mbps on a 800mbps connection. When I was a Unifi Installer last year, we would
always get complaints about this particular router's wifi performance but we were more often
then not issued these models even when we requested the newer tplink routers ones because they were not as well
stocked at the time.

It got so bad that we would coach customers to lodge a complaint with TM, reporting lousy wifi
performance and demanding a better router so that they would not blame us and give
us a low score on the feedback SMS which would drag down our score. At the time, these complaints
were handled by the repair team and not us lowly installers.

So for those of you older customers still running this particular model, if you get turbo-ed
and only require maximum performance on your wired PC Desktop of Laptop, you can get by
with this unit and maybe supplement this with a reasonably priced better performing A.P.

Just make sure you have cat 6 cables connected from btu to router and router to PC.

Might be an issue of copper-clad CAT5e cables, rather than pure copper CAT5e cables

JohnLai

Can you provide the make and model of the Ethernet cable, if possible?

Can you provide the text printed on the cable itself? 

You should see the recommended brands of cable on 1st page, and get a Cat6. You might have bought yourself a Cat5, or a badly crimped Cat5e. Just as possibility to consider.

Did you even read the 1st page at all? Stop buying dodgy RJ45 cable from China and see the brand I list on the 1st page!
True. It is up to him. Already given him the link so if he still wants to buy cheap cable from China, it is his prerogative.