10/100 & 30Mbps

Hi All.

I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly to my
pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.

However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then run a
cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.

I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn of
my microwave oven. I am not kidding.

Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it due
to some limitation of the router?

Any help is much appreciated.


Neil

"Neil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi All.
>
> I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly to
> my pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.
>
> However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then run
> a cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
> Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.
>
> I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn of
> my microwave oven. I am not kidding.
>
> Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it
> due to some limitation of the router?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
> Neil


yep - sounds like it...its only on the latest recent high end consumer units
that Ive actually seen routed throughput of 25-50Mbps ...some year old
models (various brands) are as low as 10-15Mbps ...they just wernt designed
for 30Mbps WAN connections


>
>

I'm getting about 12Mbps through the router, it prob would be a bit quicker
without WEP but not much and looks like it would be capped around 15Mbps by
the looks of it - any suggestions for some of these high end consumer units,
just so i know what i'm looking for and how much i am going to have to
mortgage the house for lol - hey, or is there some other esoteric way to
connect my modem to my pc's ethernet card (directly) and then somehow pipe
that out to my router so it can be broadcast wirelessly, this way the pc
would have the full speed and the wireless laptop would get the slower link
which would suit me fine....is there some multi ethernet port card or switch
or similar that could do this or am I sounding delirious?

> yep - sounds like it...its only on the latest recent high end consumer
> units that Ive actually seen routed throughput of 25-50Mbps ...some year
> old models (various brands) are as low as 10-15Mbps ...they just wernt
> designed for 30Mbps WAN connections

Neil wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly to my
> pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.
>
> However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then run a
> cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
> Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.
>
> I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn of
> my microwave oven. I am not kidding.
>
> Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it due
> to some limitation of the router?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
> Neil
>
>
The microwave & wi-fi transmit on the same frequency 2.4Ghz and a
microwave can interfere with the signal.

"Neil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I have a 30Mbps internet connection.

This is Verizon FIOS?

>However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+

Is this the router Verizon supplied? Is it running their special
x.xxDDM firmware? IME, SOHO routers can't keep up with FIOS speeds...

Thanks Steve, I know the microwave can interfere with the wireless signal
but here I'm not talking about the wireless signal - it's the degradation of
speed in connecting the modem by Rj-45 to the router and then passing the
signal back out by Rj-45 to the pc via one of the routers 10/100 ethernet
ports. Wireless doesn't come into the equation as far as this direct
connection is concerned, which is why D-Link's response suprised me.

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Neil wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly to
>> my pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.
>>
>> However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then run
>> a cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
>> Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.
>>
>> I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn
>> of my microwave oven. I am not kidding.
>>
>> Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it
>> due to some limitation of the router?
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Neil
> The microwave & wi-fi transmit on the same frequency 2.4Ghz and a
> microwave can interfere with the signal.

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Neil wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly
to my
> > pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.
> >
> > However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then
run a
> > cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
> > Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.

sounds like the router cannot cope with 30 Mbps.

see if the router stats show anything useful such as errors, or the LAN /
WAN ports speeds and duplex, in case something has gone to 100 half duplex,
or is running at 10M.
> >
> > I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn
of
> > my microwave oven. I am not kidding.
> >
> > Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it
due
> > to some limitation of the router?

they think PC -> router is using wireless.

i dont know that router in detail, but if you want to go back to them to ask
again, try disabling wireless on the router to eliminate wireless as a
problem.
> >
> > Any help is much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Neil
> >
> >
> The microwave & wi-fi transmit on the same frequency 2.4Ghz and a
> microwave can interfere with the signal.
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Regards

(E-Mail Removed) - replace xyz with ntl

This is Cable, Optimum Online Boost http://www.optimumonline.com, they don't
supply a router, only a modem, i'm now trying to find a router than can
supply the throughput I need via its ethernet ports.


"William P.N. Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Neil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>I have a 30Mbps internet connection.
>
> This is Verizon FIOS?
>
>>However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+
>
> Is this the router Verizon supplied? Is it running their special
> x.xxDDM firmware? IME, SOHO routers can't keep up with FIOS speeds...

I have a Linksys WRT54GS. The 4 ethernet ports are limited to 100Mbps
total even though they're advertised as 10/100 ports. Could something
like this be effecting your speed numbers?

Wow, 30Mbps down/2Mbps up for $45/mo (for the first year).

Lance
*****

Neil thought carefully and wrote on 1/8/2006 8:37 AM:
> Hi All.
>
> I have a 30Mbps internet connection. I connect my cable modem directly to my
> pc's 10/100 ethernet card and get as good as 30Mbps. So far, so good.
>
> However, when I connect the cable modem to my D-Link DI-614+ and then run a
> cable from one of its 10/100 Ethernet ports to the PC's Ethernet 10/100
> Ethernet card, the internet speed is halved.
>
> I called D-Link support which I think is in India. They're advice? Turn of
> my microwave oven. I am not kidding.
>
> Is it because the router is wirelessly broadcasting the signal or is it due
> to some limitation of the router?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
> Neil
>
>

That's exactly what I think is affecting the speed, which is confusing
because I would have though 10/100Mbps should be able to cope with
distributing 30Mbps, but apparently not it seems with my router, I need to
find a router that can do what it claims and truly support a 100Mbps
connection.

"Lance" <lltbhill@link_earth.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Linksys WRT54GS. The 4 ethernet ports are limited to 100Mbps total
>even though they're advertised as 10/100 ports. Could something like this
>be effecting your speed numbers?
>
> Wow, 30Mbps down/2Mbps up for $45/mo (for the first year).
>
> Lance
> *****