[Solved]RT3200 - PPPOE & download speeds halved!

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

I have a Belkin RT3200 (Openwrt 23.05.5) and have configured it for my ISP - Vodafone(Cityfibre).

I followed the instructions here (Zen-Cityfibre - same underlying network)

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/zen-isp-uk-setup-on-openwrt-router/156594/10

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/12eelj5/openwrt_setup_zen_isp_with_cityfibre_as/

The issue is that my download speeds consistently max out at around 500MB, uploads are over 800MB+.

Everything else being the same, I disconnect RT3200 and plug in the basic router supplied by Vodafone and the uploads immediately shoot up to 900MB+.

Appreciate any ideas on why my uploads are almost half what they should be

The only difference is that in the suggestion above - 'VLAN interface (802.1q) that was tagged to the WAN interface (eth1 in my case)' . However I tagged it to 'Switch port: "wan" ' on my router. Which seemed to be the logical one for RT3200.

Everything else is fine, just downloads are half what they are with the Vodafone Power Hub

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Did you have seen higher speeds with your RT3200? After all it seems a dual core 1.3 MHz CPU

Did you enable packetsteering, irqbalance, WED and Offload?

See : https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450

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Magic ! It worked None of those were enabled but now they are and my uploads are hovering around 930Mbs. Thanks alot !

I don't know which of the settings did the trick, I just enabled all of them.

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