Router splitting connection??
Hey all,
I have a cable modem and a network everywhere router, and I'm noticing some pretty slow speeds with it. Using a bandwidth test online, I found that it is, in effect, splitting my connection directly in half with the two computers. Is this right? I reset it's settings to default, still to no avail.
any ideas?
thanks!!
al
I have a cable modem and a network everywhere router, and I'm noticing some pretty slow speeds with it. Using a bandwidth test online, I found that it is, in effect, splitting my connection directly in half with the two computers. Is this right? I reset it's settings to default, still to no avail.
any ideas?
thanks!!
al
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one should note that the theoretical max of a cable modem is merely theoretical, and not common in regular use. A cable modem is shared, beyond your house and whatever mini-LAN you may have setup. It's speeds are not guaranteed, and can fluxuate wildly depending on others who are in on the share (i don't know how expansive a cable modem share goes, but i think its 10s or 100s of people; and i don't mean 10s/100s per cable modem, but 10s/100s per allocated speed which may or not may have been advertised to each individual).
With two computers connected and doing nothing, a toast.net bandwidth test yields roughly 700K on each computer. Disconnecting one from the net results in speeds of roughly 1400K (one computer is still connected to the router).
Network Everywhere cheap ass cable/dsl router. Could this be the problem?
NR 041 is the model in question. Thanks for the help!
Dobby.
Thanks for all the help!
You probably have a device that is somewhere in between a switch and a hub. It is actually two hubs (one 10 one 100) joined by a very simple switch (called a bridge).
This class of devices does not deal well with mixing simplex and duplex devices together. My guess is that one of your computers is simplex, and the other duplex, and the whole system is defaulting to simplex because of it.
A true switch (more expensive) handles this much better.