Need Help Maximizing Internet Speeds with GL-MT6000 Wi-Fi 6 AX6000 Router
Hi everyone,
I recently purchased the GL-MT6000 (Flint 2) Wi-Fi 6 AX6000 router to resolve an internet speed issue at home with my ISP. Here’s the setup and problem I’m facing:
• My ISP modem/router shows speeds of 3 Gbps up and down.
• When I connect my MacBook Pro (supports up to 5 Gbps connections) directly to the ISP’s 10 Gbps port using a Cat 6e (10 Gbps rated) ethernet cable, I only get speeds of sub-850 Mbps on Speedtest.
• To troubleshoot, I connected the ISP’s 10 Gbps port to the Flint 2’s 2.5 Gbps WAN port using the same Cat 6e cable. Then, I connected another 10 Gbps cable from the Flint 2’s 2.5 Gbps LAN port to my MacBook Pro. Despite this setup, my speeds remain the same at sub-850 Mbps.
• The Flint 2 and my laptop are the only devices connected to the network during testing.
Additionally, when I connect to the Flint 2’s 5 GHz Wi-Fi SSID, I’m only getting sub-500 Mbps wireless speeds.
So far, I’ve tried the following:
Enabled Advanced DMZ to use the Flint 2 as the main router — no improvement.
Configured a PPPoE connection on the Flint 2 — still no change.
I’m hoping to achieve at least 2.5 Gbps speeds (closer to the ISP’s advertised speeds) but haven’t been successful. Am I missing something in the setup? Is there anything specific I need to configure on the Flint 2 to fully utilize it's potential
Any advice or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated!?
Sorry I did not respond to some of the questions.
Well the speed i am paying for from the ISP is 3gbps up and down and that is what i get when i run the speedtest on the isp router directly
The isp modem has about 5 1gbps ports and 1 10gbps port
Talking about ssh to the router are you asking for ssh to the gli-inet router? to run the ethtool command?
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root@GL-MT6000:~# ethtool -s eth1 speed 2500 duplex full autoneg off
Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument
not setting speed
not setting duplex
not setting autoneg
root@GL-MT6000:~#
Sorry, I miss something that the MT6000 does not support this command to config the Eth port speed.
Now the router has updated to the latest firmware, how about the port speed?
If they did not arrive 2.5Gbps, please let me know the other side network device, like the adapter NIC model.
My issue is that wifi is supposed to submit upto 2.5gbps.. if i am getting excess of 800mbps through the repeater ahile connected to ethernet, why is the wifi connection giving me less than half?
Does the router 2.5G WAN connect to the ISP modem with the network cable?
It is supposed to be display the Speed when the cable connected.
Please execute the command in the SSH of router: ethtool eth1
This may depend on the repeater (sta) interface and the Clients' WiFi negotiation rate.
In general, the clients data goes through the router, which needs to repeat the data, like say at the same time, the router needs to receive data from the phone, and it also needs to send data to the ISP modem (from phone <-> router <-> modem), means TX and RX at the same time, so the wireless bandwidth of the client will be equal to 1/2 of the repeater interface rate.
The 800mbps speeds i reported earlier are from when i have an ethernet cable connected from my flint 2 router to my laptop. pure wifi connection is always sub 400mbps
Sorry,
what ɔ you mean by repeater interface speed rate? where do i find this interface? is that on the flint 2 router or elsewhere? will i find it on my isp router?
