Update - I’ve got the backhaul to work as I saw the 53 has a beta firmware on here and that’s sorted that bit! Just need to know what I can do about my upload speeds if anyone knows?

  @Joseph-TP So the Hub 4 upload is coming in 80/90mbps on its own.

 

The upload speeds on the ax72/53 are both maxing at 24.5mbps and I am using Ethernet backhaul to connect the two although in both Ethernet and Wireless backhaul the 24.5 is still the max.

 

Enabling QoS and setting to 1000 hasn't made a difference.

 

I can try a different cable for the WAN connection but can I just clarify what cable spec you recommend for me to do so?

Ok so we are getting somewhere. I tried just the AX53 as the main router connected alone and this seems to work much better and I reached upload speed of 80mbps. Which suggests something in the setup of the AX72 must be causing the max upload of 24.5mbps. Any ideas of the ideal settings I can change to within the firmware?

 Just to conclude this I've managed to fix it although I have no idea how. I actually purchased an AX95 second hand and was setting up to find it did exactly the same thing on the upload cap....

 

Ended up factory resetting all three routers several times and my virgin modem and putting it into router mode and back to modem only. 
 

After 2hrs of messing about (also finding the AX95 doesn't do EasyMesh - why????) I then noticed speed test was showing above the cap. 
 

So I've gone back to the 72 and 53 setup and now getting 1gig downstream and 85mbps upstream on WiFi on my iPhone.....

  @marsman802 

 

Hi just a quick question, 

 

When you initially put your hub4 in modem mode did you do a reboot of all devices at same time or individually ?

 

as my friend who is with virgin had similar issues but he uses a ax55 as his main and we did this and it seemed to cure the issue.

 

Also as strange as its going to sound I beleive I read somewhere ( don't ask me where ) that when you put the virgin router into modem mode he should use a specific lan port ( 3 or 4 i think )on the virgin router to the wan port of the tp link main router. 

 

He's currently not using a easy mesh network yet but he is using a pair of my old c6 v3.2 as satellites in AP mode and he does have any of the upload issues as far as i know 

  @Basboi85 Hey! I did them in isolation actually so only had one of them on and factory reset them - to be clear I never had them all on at once when I started trying all the different combinations. Honestly it was driving my son mad who was desperate to do something online 😂.

 

You know I looked back at my speed test results (I regularly check in just to see what's what) and the issue definitely started before any mesh network it turns out. Looks like it was June last year this started capping but I didn't think anything of it as was probably just looking at download speed.

 

So some gremlin just started between the VM hub and the AX72 somehow as i was using the AX53 as an AP connected via ethernet previously and only turned into ethernet backhaul on a mesh network a month or two ago.

 

Haven't heard that LAN port one before though.

 

Glad it wasnt just me having issues!

  @marsman802 

 

I know the certain lan port on the virgin router was and strange one to me but hey ho it's IT equipment and simple logic never seems to prevail lol 🤷🏼‍♂️. 

 

We rebooted everything all at once after he was having gremlins and it all worked so I guess there mightve been a 'handshake' issue I'm guessing? 

 

 

I know the feeling all to well when I was trying to keep my 3x Ax72's in easy mesh and my kids was constantly going mad becuase i had "messed with the wifi and they couldnt play online 🙄. 

 

After a few months of being totally unreliable with constant crashes and many other random phenomenons in easymesh  I gave up with it and went to 1x main x2AP and haven't looked back since.

 

Only time I hear moaning now is when my boys move around my house and their nintendo switches don't roam/switch over between units and have to begrudgingly restart their switches after god knows how long moaning that their games are lagging ect but everything else does without a hiccup 🤷🏼‍♂️.