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On 28/12/17 09:30, Daniel Robinson wrote: > Hi Rich. > > I'll try and break this down for you. > > Internal network : Transfer speeds UP TO 1Gbps (between internal devices) > Internet Speed router side : Transfer Speeds UP TO 100Mbps. (between ALL > devices and modem going out) > Internet Speed in your area : UP TO 8.1Mbps Down, 2Mbps Up > > So your upload speed will always be 2Mbps to the internet from any > device regardless of internal network wiring. > > Hope this helps somewhat. Daniel's done most of the clarification work for me (thanks chief) so hopefully it's clearer now where the speed bottleneck is for your network - it's the ISP and the broadband package you're paying for firstly and then the slower 100Mbps connection from the old router into the 1000Mbps device. Or at least, it was. It seems now that you've ditched the old modem (was it really just a standalone unit?) and replaced it entirely with a new all-in-one unit that functions as your ADSL modem, router, wifi basestation and has an integrated 4 port switch. Presumably it has a Netgear or D-Link badge on it. "Hubs" are no longer a thing thank god - the 4 ports on your new gadget are full switching ports and we refer to these devices as "switches" to distinguish them. We all knew what you meant to be fair but hubs and switches are very different things. So now if I'm still following along correctly, you've only got the new all-in-one box between your wired and wifi clients and the big bad internet. All wired machines will be running at 1Gbps internally and your wifi clients at whatever speeds are negotiated depending on the 802.11 standards supported (A/B/G/N/AC etc) between them and the basestation. Finally, all internet traffic is shunted through your ADSL connection at whatever speeds your ISP provides, which Daniel helpfully says are ~8Mbps/2Mbps wherever you live. And of course it doesn't even matter if you replace your internal networking with a Â40k Brocade converged 100Gbps switch: nothing, including Dropbox uploads, is going out of your network faster than 2Mbps because that is your hard limit. Does this all make sense now? Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq