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I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your download
speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a fraction of the
speed of any local router connections. Most hispeed internet connections,
dsl, cable, etc. average somewhere around 1 to 2 meg. Local hardwired
ethernet is either 10meg or 100 meg. Most local are 100meg. I'm thinking
you did not do a valid comparison. It's hard to do a valid comparison as
your hispeed internet connection speed also varies depending on who else is
active in your immediate area as you share the routers belonging to your
provider with your neighbors. As well as the type and length of the
connection and the percentage of errors.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of
buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port
router. Ran a speed test immediately afterwards and noticed to my delight a
20% uptick in download speed. My old Netgear router was about five years
old, I guess, and the Linksys router I bought was introduced two years ago,
I was told.

Interestingly, the number of wired routers available is down substantially
since the advent of WiFi. I suppose almost everyone is going wireless in
the home, but I still think wired is mo' betta. When we built this house,
I connected several rooms with Cat5e cable. I do use wireless at the
kitchen table sometimes, and it works just fine, but it is not nearly as
fast as wired.

The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one.

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I have no idea, but it did. I test speed several times a week on three
sites and I tested immediately after installing the new router. I never
had speeds as high as the test now reports. As Yoda told me: Gift horses
in the mouth look not.

Baffles me too. Perhaps the old router or its software was just hosed in a
manner that this new one is not. shrug. Just take it.

-W

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/26/2007 9:24 AM, James wrote:
I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your
download speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a
fraction of the speed of any local router connections. Most hispeed
internet connections, dsl, cable, etc. average somewhere around 1 to 2
meg. Local hardwired ethernet is either 10meg or 100 meg. Most local
are 100meg. I'm thinking you did not do a valid comparison. It's hard
to do a valid comparison as your hispeed internet connection speed also
varies depending on who else is active in your immediate area as you
share the routers belonging to your provider with your neighbors. As
well as the type and length of the connection and the percentage of
errors.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead
of buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port
router. Ran a speed test immediately afterwards and noticed to my
delight a 20% uptick in download speed. My old Netgear router was about
five years old, I guess, and the Linksys router I bought was introduced
two years ago, I was told.

Interestingly, the number of wired routers available is down
substantially since the advent of WiFi. I suppose almost everyone is
going wireless in the home, but I still think wired is mo' betta. When
we built this house, I connected several rooms with Cat5e cable. I do
use wireless at the kitchen table sometimes, and it works just fine, but
it is not nearly as fast as wired.

The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for
one.




I have no idea, but it did. I test speed several times a week on three
sites and I tested immediately after installing the new router. I never
had speeds as high as the test now reports. As Yoda told me: Gift horses
in the mouth look not.

In a router, the packet comes in and the ip header is stripped off, the mac
address is changed to the mac of the router. The ip header is then
reassembled and the packet is sent on its way. This happens for all packets
both directions. With the new electronics and ASICS it is possible to read
the packet in to a buffer and just stuff the new mac address into the
packet - a LOT faster. I don't know if that is the answer for this router
in particuar, but it general its very close.

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I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your
download
speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a fraction of
the
speed of any local router connections.

Believe it. Newer routers, especially ones targeted toward the 'gamer'
market, are generally faster at handling the overhead of routing your
packets. Even more so when there are several computers hanging off the
switch ports too.

I found my old router worked best when I hung it off another switch instead
of plugging the PCs right into it. The PC-to-PC traffic for file sharing
and such was enough of a burden to also slow that older router's internet
handling.

Here's a comparison chart to consider:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index...per&Itemid=156

So while you're certainly going to be limited to the total uplink/downlink
speed to your ISP, that router sitting in between may be slowing things down
a lot more than you'd imagine.

-Bill Kearney

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Here's a comparison chart to consider:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index...per&Itemid=156

Thanks. I've seen a chart similar to that one. But the routers on the
site you offered up are wireless. Your point is made there, though.

Yeah, I've yet to come across one that focused on wireless only. I'd like
to see the same sorts of test results. But given how cheap the wifi routers
can be it might be worth using one and just disabling the wireless features.

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:27:09 -0500, Bill Kearney wrote:


Yeah, I've yet to come across one that focused on wireless only. I'd like
to see the same sorts of test results. But given how cheap the wifi routers
can be it might be worth using one and just disabling the wireless features.

Along similar lines, there is a large Linux community of hackers having
fun with those very same routers.

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9515501295.html