Flint 2 global speed drops from 1000mbps to 100mbps

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flin 2 , great router I love it , had no issues until recently.

glint flint 2 keeps dropping speed to 100mbps until i pull the power lead then its 1000mbps

, this is both wired and wireless, so to simplify this issue i will say its something to do with the router being overloaded or something

to clarify This router is having a 1000mbps line symmetrical bandwidth connection going into it.

and ill pull the power now for example (restarting does not fix the issue)

and overnight ill wake up and my max speeds on wireless or ethernet on all ports will be 100mbps .

This may be a simple fix such as locking it to gigabit or something but I don't want to rock the boat.

One side note is i do do a site to site backup over vpn ethernet, and this vpn is hosted on the router, now the devices that im connected to and using that are in question are not going through the vpn tunnels, so the vpn technology slowing down the bands with would not be applicable as all but two devices go completely around the vpn.

but I cant help but suspect that maybe the vpn tunnel is overloading the router in some fashion causing it to throttle and cap speed down to 100mbps,

data transfer site to site is 500mbps, three times a week usually lasting 3 hours.

so there are the vareiables and the issues

So I'm reaching out to the community for assistance thank you guys , hope everyone is having a wonderful life experience today :heart:

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Sounds like the ethernet port has negotiated down to 100 Mbps. If the router or WAN device reports the port speed I'd check that to see if it reports 100 the next time the issue presents itself. Next thing I would do is swap in a different ethernet cable and see if the behavior continues.

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Suer , it happens a lot sometimes multiple times a day, how do i test this to see what times its happening at and such? thank you

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I had a very similar issue with my Slate AX. It was a bad network cable. It had poor RFI shielding anyway so no great loss when I tossed it. FWIW.

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replace the cable then you say? think?

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Hi,

Please PM me the router syslog, I think it will record when the interface status has changes.

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Why was your network patch cable shielded?

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Paranoia. 'Set it & forget it' as it were.

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If you do not have your equipment and the connections properly grounded, shielded cable will actually act as an antenna and make your signal worse. I would be shocked if you have grounds in place - but you do you.

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The UBNT gear I run upstream is. Everything else is connected to a A/C line conditioner. I don't really care about Wi-Fi preformance.

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Is 1 end of your shielding in your cable grounded itself? If not, then it is not properly grounded. Has nothing to do with WiFi performance. I would replace the shielded cable with regular cat6/6a cable. It is easier and you are gaining nothing with shielded - most likely hurting performance actually. But as I said, you do you.

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iperf3 shows no indication of losses nor has there been any checksumming corruption across multi-TB xfers using sha256sum, sha512sum, b2sum or b3sum.

I think I'm a little more than okay using S/FTP.