I have a question. On the smallnetbuilder website, the WAN to LAN speeds of the router that I am using seems to show ~ 745Mbps (Asus AC68U). I was recently upgraded to 800Mbps. My wired LAN speedtests seem to also hover around 680 - 720Mbps (using TM speedtest in Chrome - Microsoft EDGE seems to be higher and more consistently closer 720 - 740Mbps).

I am using an Alienware 15 R1 that has gigabit LAN port and I believe uses Killer suite and I believe Atheros e2000 LAN adapter. Its an i7 4710HQ and SSD so I'm not sure if the problem is the laptop or is this par for the course due to the AC68U that I am using.

Thanks will test in the app and see if things do peak close 800Mbps. Can I know what does the WAN to LAN speeds actually mean in the test conducted by the SNB guys?

I thought so too, but would that not explain why I'm getting only 750Mbps? I'm curious as well as in that list there does not seem to be many that show 1Gbps for WAN to LAN...(actually only 1 shows close to that) .

But I guess there is more to this as there are many showing ability to get 800Mbps in LYN.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Oct 24 2018, 04:08 PM

Thanks for this. What shd I rename it to? Maybe I shd do a search 1st for information on this.

Will need to follow John Lai's advice as even using the app I only got about 660 - 700Mbps. Edge browser seems to be better in my case as its consistently above 700Mbps.

Do contact me with regards to ur plasma recalibration.

I had a fun time trying to troubleshoot the low speeds with the Alienware 15 R1.

Followed John's notes and renamed mcupdate and reboot. Speeds in speedtest app was similar ~ 660 -720Mbps. Speeds in Edge browser, higher ~ 740-750Mbps. Chrome browser was similar to speedtest app. This was even with McAfee virus scan and firewalls turned off and the browser extensions all turned off. On the Asus router,AI Protection was also off (QoS as well). So nothing I did allowed me to get the speeds up to 800Mbps on the Alienware.

Moved to testing with the Macbook Air 13 (2014) using thuderbolt to gigabit adapter. This was a laptop that was on Windows 7 (Bootcamp). Similar speeds seen. Moved to booting with MacOS and tested with app on Mac OS X --- boom 820Mbps, 210Mbps UL.

So definitely something about windows config in my setups that is limiting. Will spend some time in the weekend figuring this out.

BTW, did check my microcode and since its a Haswell chip, it did indeed show x024. Oddly, Dell did carry out a BIOS update in February that shd hv fixed the Spectre thingy at least from the BIOS portion but looks like the Windows update has not caught up.

Anyway, long story short, TM did actually get the speeds right, while I don't really see the benefits as typical speedtests to US or European servers seem muted to 230 -300Mbps anyway, I'm not sure how much the 800Mbps is actually helping.

BTW, my bill is still RM299...so probably another visit to TM Point or chats likely in a few months..