Yeah. the ‘half’ element of this is suspicious. I don’t have a fiber link here faster than 350Mbps to test with. Lets ask @sitloongs or @TK_Liew for their assistance here …
Do allow me to ask the last questions. May I know the Balance One has 5 WANs license activated? Can you share the LAN port settings (Network > Port Settings) of the Balance One?
@Simon_Hodgkiss thanks for the info. Can you connect your laptop directly to LAN port 2 to confirm any different there? Please take note of your laptop’s CPU load when you do the speed test. I come across a case that CPU of laptop reached 100% when doing the speed test. So, the throughput can’t go higher 300Mbps.
@TK_Liew Thanks for your help. However I’m not sure that CPU is going to be causing the problem since I’m running a Mac Pro 2013 - 12 core 2.7Ghz - with 64GB ram.
However that been said I’m happy to try this test. But I’m away for next few days.
If you could give me some more tips around this that would be helpful since I’m pretty sure that my CPU can certainly handle the line speed.
@Simon_Hodgkiss, please test with Linux OS if possible. It has consistent throughput based on our testing. We couldn’t get a good throughput with MAC OS and Windows OS here.
Thanks for your feedback that would make sense. Since under the same conditions I get around that. But when I use the same device on a pfsense I get over 500.
Hi Simon,
Did you receive any resolution for your lower speeds?
I just set up a Balance One last week and am experiencing the same challenge – am on xfinity 600Mbps plan, speedtest directly from modem gives 500Mbps; going thru router then lowers it to 250-300Mbps (just as Alexey said).
My ethernet details also showed no collisions or errors, and whether on Auto or customized MTU setting makes no difference.
Wondered about Windows 10 tweaks, but can’t imagine that would make up 2-300Mbps.
I gave up because clearly it seems the device is advertised incorrectly or something because no matter what settings I do it doesn’t come close to the 500Mbps that I get from my ISP.
I’m in the process of removing the Peplink from my network and moving to pfSense as I can get well over 500Mbps on the same line using that.
I don’t understand it at all it doesn’t make any sense to me there has to be some cap or some limits other than the 600 on the Peplink.