I switched from my setup that used Billion ADSL modem in Bridged mode to my old Cisco 877 in routed mode, and now my download speed has jumped back to closer to the sync speed, around 8Mbps. My theory is that with a bridged/PPPOE setup I was getting a lot of queuing of outgoing packets, which led to large latencies, and that the routed setup is better. I did try solving this by setting up QOS, but with the speed changing so much this didn't work anymore, and I don't particularly want to have to keep monitoring this. Unfortunately, the Billion ADSL modem doesn't appear to support DHCPv6 PD, and Internode will not send my IPv6 subnets without it, which is why I went to the bridged/PPPOE setup. Still need to chase up with Internode I am not getting a sync rate faster the 9Mbps, when I did faster previously. Internode have agreed it looks like there is a problem here. My Cisco 877 is past end of life[*], so would like to replace it with something more recent (and capable of NBN speeds for when I eventually get FTTN). Currently looking at the Cisco Rv134w-e-k9-au it appears it supports things like DHCPv6 PD. Apparently it is suppose to be able to cope with NBN 100/40 speeds (confirmation of this would be good...). One review says it requires regular reboots. It also doesn't run IOS - although if it does what I want that isn't a big concern. Might be better actually, looks like firmware updates can be downloaded free of charge. Notes: [*] and sometimes fails to boot IOS after power failure requiring the boot command to be typed on the serial console, because the config register value got lost yet again. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/