BE9300 Terrible Performance w/o Network Acceleration, or w/ Features

[ehidle]

I just took my new BE9300 out of the box to replace mt MT6000 to fix this very issue, only to find that the BE9300 has it WORSE than the MT6000.

First, we must have parental controls enabled, because our kids will not voluntarily turn their stuff off and go to bed. If you have kids, you know what I am talking about.

So, we have 2gbit fiber, and here is the speed we can get through the BE9300, down / up:

NA Enabled: 2gbit / 2gbit

NA Disabled: 1.5gbit / 1.5gbit

NA Disabled, Local PC Enabled: 600Mbit / 400Mbit

Here is what we got with the MT6000:

NA Enabled: 2gbit / 2gbit

NA Disabled: 2gbit / 800Mbit

NA Disabled, Local PC Enabled: 2gbit / 800Mbit

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It looks like PC is absolutely destroying network performance, regardless of the number of managed devices, and had no noticeable effect on performance on the MT6000.

I see some other threads about PPPoE, and we do have PPPoE, but we have no issues getting our rated speed.

Any thoughts or ideas, or known workarounds for this? I’m a little disappointed that a $200 router has to disable crucial features just to be able to pass a standard residential pipe.

[bruce]

Hello,

I noticed that you also posted some feedback about Flint2 in another thread.

We are very sorry.

GL-MT6000 Upload Limited Without Network Acceleration

Hello, Unfortunately, only one of these two functions (network acceleration and parental control) can be enabled. Truly sorry. Because after network acceleration is turned on, the network packets are not processed by the CPU, but by a separate acceleration chip; the parental control needs to filter and process the network packets, and it requires the network packets through the CPU, so network acceleration requires to disable. You can set up another router as the main router for adults to use…

When your ISP bandwidth exceeds 1Gbps (higher network speed is required), hardware acceleration needs to be enabled; but when some network control functions are also required, we have to disable hardware acceleration and let the CPU process these network packets so that features can take effect.

[MucFlyer]

Flint 3 does have broken acceleration (both HW ans SW doesnt work well), however try to enable packet steering under Luci :

[oorweeg]

@ehidle This is an old post and is unfortunate at the frustration but also having some of these same challenges as a family you may want to look into parental controls on the devices themselves to help here and allow the HW acceleration to remain enabled on the router.

Apple (for iPhones and iPads)

Google (For android phones and tablets)

Microsoft (For Xbox and Windows)

Nintendo (For Switch Switch 2)

All provide tools that allow you to restrict the hours a device can be used to enforce them to shutdown at specific times of day and only work from specific times in the morning. We utilise these in our house to help police and enforce going to bed and they work well.

These can all be setup and managed using separate apps on your own phone to prevent tampering. Hope that is some small help.