SMC Barricade Slow

I've got an SMC Barricade 7004AWBR wireless router with a cable internet
connection. Lately, download speeds to my desktop computer connected by
network cable are painfully slow (60 Kbps) but upload speeds are normal
(500Kbps).

When I connect wirelessly to the router with a notebook computer, my
download speeds are in the 2000Kbps range. Normal.

I've tried bypassing the router and connecting the desktop directly to the
cable modem and DL speeds are 2000 so it has to be something in the router.
I've tried all the different ports on the router with no joy.

Any ideas?

Rod Dahl <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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> Any ideas?

Maybe you have a dud cable.

Which cable did you use when you bypassed the router, the cable from the
modem to the router, or the cable from the router to the computer?

If you used the cable from the modem to the router, check out the other
cable and see if you still get good download speeds.

Thanks for the reply. I thought about it being a bad cable and have tried
two different ones....When I bypassed the router and my DL speeds returned
to normal, I had plugged the cable from the desktop pooter directly into the
modem instead of the router.
It seems strange to me that my upload speeds are normal (500Kbps) when my
download speeds are dogging around 100Kbps.

I've had this router for at least 3 years and never had a problem....have
the latest firmware. I've done the power everything down, shut down
computer....power everything back up routine several times. I haven't done
anything to change any of the router settings to screw this thing up either.

I've also spoken to SMC tech support but it's going to have to be paid
support. And I couldn't understand a word the tech guy said (India, of
course).