General • hAP ac lite slow ethernet

Very low priority question but I use a hAP ac lite in the lab for experiments and learning. Happened to do a speed test from a laptop hard wired into the router and was surprised at the speed: struggling to get above 60Mbps. The router is connected upstream to a gigabit unmanaged switch. Both the router and laptop ethernet interfaces are reporting 100Mbps full duplex. Plug the laptop directly into the upstream router and Ookla speedtest gets the expected ~300Mbps of my internet connection.

I've just reset the router without a default configuration and set-up it up as a simple switch (add bridge, add all ethernet ports to bridge). Same speed so it's not the firewall overheard that you get when using it as a router.

I know the hAP ac lite doesn't have a powerful CPU (MIPSBE single-core 650MHz) and I didn't expect 100Mbps but certainly expected above 90MBps.

Perplexed of Manchester...

PS. Also got a hAP lite and same speeds when configured as switch...
PPS. Found some very old threads on here about ethernet -> ethernet speed problems on the hAP ac range. As I said, it's just lab kit so not that worried, just curious. I guess as these tend to be used on FTTC connections which max out at around 60Mbps, it's not a massive issue.

Statistics: Posted by robmaltsystems — Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:27 pm

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