Bandwidth input.

[Mauler57]

When setting up the router, it asks what bandwidth speed your IP "SAYS" you get. While inputting the info, is that real time speeds, or what you supposedly are capable of getting?? Also, does that need to tweaked or change every day?

Thank you....

[bagsta69]

Your best bet is to do a speed test to see what speeds you are actually getting, then input just under these speeds. 

Then about twice a week put your congestion Control sliders to 100% and check that the speeds are still the same.

[N3CR0]

I have input 200d 12u in mine.

I actually get 220d but meh. Don't do much downloading these days so not bothered about losing the extra.

[Netduma Fraser]

If you never see those speeds then I would do a speed test directly from your ISP modem/router and see what it is. If that is what you get most of the time then input that into the Netduma bandwidth settings. No you do not need to tweak or change it daily. Unless your speeds drastically change throughout the day which they shouldn't then you'll be fine with the average you put in.

[Dav8or]

I'm a noob to the R1 and to this forum, so I had this question too. I'm wondering how this setting works as well. Does the R1 throttle to whatever the settings are on the bandwidth? For example, if you set 100 down and 10 up, but are really capable of 120 down and 12 up on a particular day, is 100/10 all you're going to get? Conversely, if you set it a little high at say, 150 down and 15 up, but are only capable of 100/10, does that mess things up in some other way?

 

Thanks for the help in advance!

[Netduma Fraser]

Hey, welcome to the forum!

 

It doesn't handle throttling or anything like that. It literally only changes settings so that you're able to get the speeds you input. If you don't set it correctly then you might not get your full speeds depending on what speeds you put in. If you do get your full speeds then if you do 70/70 it will take the numbers you input as being 100% so it wouldn't have as good as an effect that if it was accurate if that makes sense.

[Dav8or]

Hey, welcome to the forum!

 

It doesn't handle throttling or anything like that. It literally only changes settings so that you're able to get the speeds you input. If you don't set it correctly then you might not get your full speeds depending on what speeds you put in. If you do get your full speeds then if you do 70/70 it will take the numbers you input as being 100% so it wouldn't have as good as an effect that if it was accurate if that makes sense.

 

OK, so I guess it's best to use sort of an average of what you get on a speed test rather than whatever the ISP claims you get?

[RL317]

OK, so I guess it's best to use sort of an average of what you get on a speed test rather than whatever the ISP claims you get?

Yeah hence the above suggestion to set your sliders to 100% every now and then to see if you're actually getting those numbers. I just use what I pay for as speed tests normally show close to those numbers, but since I have my sliders set lower and I don't need full bandwidth it's not really an issue. At worst I get 1Mb less than I pay for (50/10).

 

If, for example, you pay for 100Mb down but it often drops by 50% or more, you may have trouble using your ideal slider settings when others are online, and you may need to adjust them often. This is what happened to me on Virgin Media cable paying for 100/6; when I was on 50/3 I usually got more like 55/2.5, but when I was "upgraded" I found it dropped to more like 25-50/5 lol

[Netduma Fraser]

OK, so I guess it's best to use sort of an average of what you get on a speed test rather than whatever the ISP claims you get?

 

Yep!