[PLUG] Very Slow Downloads

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Tue Oct 25 14:19:20 UTC 2011


On 10/24/2011 10:42 PM, Russell Johnson wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the good old reliable Netgear router -- which I've had since
>> the days of @home -- needs to be retired. I've got a couple of
>> WRT-whats-its in the closet. Must be time to get one out and fire it up.
> As I recall, the RT314 needed to be rebooted on occasion due to buffer overflow.

Interesting. I hadn't heard that. I have rebooted it on a number of 
occasions but I always thought it was for some "unknown" reason.

This morning, from my desktop machine:

Ping = 18 ms
Download = 9.29 Mbps
Upload = 3.64 Mbps

More tests, then I go digging in the closet for the WRTs.

Last night, without the router, I got a download speed of 19 something. 
The nice lady at Comcast was impressed and said I was paying for 12. How 
much loss should there be going through a router and a switch?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens





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