@Riley_S I'll try, but since you're apparently with TP-Link, the obvious question is how much bandwidth is being used by the link to TP-Link's servers. Is it substantial? I'm seeing 935 Mb/s up / 945...

Actually, using fast.com, I consistently see 1.1 Gb/s down and about 900 Mb/s up when the router isn't linked to my account.

I have 1 Gb/s up and down bandwidth with Google Fiber. What I've noticed is that as soon as I link my router to my tp-link account (i.e. it becomes a non-local device), the wired ethernet bandwidth...