Yeah. Realized this today while reading around that the laptop's ethernet port can also be a bottleneck. And I've been a fool.. I have the surface pro dock which comes with a gigabit ethernet port. Will check the speeds using it and see what I get.Do ensure your friend's ethernet port is also a gigabit port, else it's no use since the speed will also be bottlenecked by his 10/100 port and show near to 100 mbps speeds.
This user here also had similar issue with 1 gig line speed and it was ultimately his 10/100 lan port on laptop which gave him only 100 mbps on 1 gig line.
Now that you have already ordered C6, and you know which port on Netlink is a giga port, it would be advisable to use C6 as a bridge and connect gig port on netlink to wan port on C6. Your wifi will give you more speeds(assuming your laptop has dual band wifi adapter)than through lan cable.
Thanks. I'll do that when I get the router later this week (hopefully.. no idea about Amazon delivery in this lockdown time).I have put my optilink basic device which has single gigabit port and no WiFi, put it in bridge mode and was using a dual band netgear r8000 wifi-AC router and recently bought a used netgear Orbi mesh router from @superczar for better range and speed.
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Update: Tried with the Surface pro dock just now, a Cat 5e cable connecting it to the Lan 2 port on the ONT. I am getting speeds between 90 Mbps and 120 Mbps consistently. The upload speeds are in the 200 to 240 Mbps range. So, download speeds are still underwhelming. Anything else I can do before contacting the LCO?
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