Hi all!
I have CenturyLink Gigabit fiber and am using a TP Link Archer AX50 WiFi 6 router instead of the router they provide.
The AX50 supports PPoE and VLAN tagging, and the router has been configured in the correct manner (as far as I can tell) to allow me to use it instead of the CenturyLink one. However, I'm not really getting the speeds I'm expecting.
Note: all subsequent speedtest results are derived from Ookla Speedtest using the nearest CenturyLink server. The device I am using to test speeds is a 2015 MacBook Pro that should support these speeds running MacOS Catalina.
Hardwired: I have heard that CenturyLink claims you should be at least getting around 80% of the advertised 940mbps when hardwired. In my case download speeds aren't achieving this (~625mbps), but upload speeds are.
WiFi:WiFi speeds when 6 feet away from the router are around 200-250mbps for both downloads and uploads. With the AX50, I have read reports of people getting considerably faster WiFi speeds.
Do any of you have any guidance as to what the bottleneck might be and how I can diagnose it? I'm mainly trying to determine if it's CenturyLink or the AX50. Any feedback would be appreciated!
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