My modem is faster than my router?

[OlsonPolson]

I couldn't take it anymore of having to wait 20 seconds to load google. So I told myself i would try just to plug my computer straight into the modem, and blazing fast speeds is what i get. So i'm confused on how i can make it so my router has the same speed when i connect my desktop into it just as i have the good speed with my desktop plugged right into my modem.

 

[Uberragen21]

No offense, but you need to read up on the issue some. The TH community could give you some feedback, but judging by your question it shows you understand nothing of how the Internet vs networks operate.

I can guarantee your home network is not the slow point if Google takes 20 seconds to load... At work, my office shares an ungodly slow 4 bundled T1s for a whooping 6 Mbps up/down. That's 6 Mbps shared amongst 45 people and I'm constantly doing remote support and large downloads and I can still open Google in less than 1 second. Take a hard look at your ISP speed and your slow, slow HDD and you will find the source of your frustrations...

 

[OlsonPolson]

No offense, but you need to read up on the issue some. The TH community could give you some feedback, but judging by your question it shows you understand nothing of how the Internet vs networks operate.

I can guarantee your home network is not the slow point if Google takes 20 seconds to load... At work, my office shares an ungodly slow 4 bundled T1s for a whooping 6 Mbps up/down. That's 6 Mbps shared amongst 45 people and I'm constantly doing remote support and large downloads and I can still open Google in less than 1 second. Take a hard look at your ISP speed and your slow, slow HDD and you will find the source of your frustrations...

well i didn't ask for criticism thank you but i am switching to century link soon and they are giving us a modem router combo so i'm riding on that to help solve my issues.

 

[Clayto1332]

Run a speed test each way (directly in modem and through your router). Your router may be going out or something on your network could be straining it or your internet connection. Also what model of router are you currently using?

 

[OlsonPolson]

Run a speed test each way (directly in modem and through your router). Your router may be going out or something on your network could be straining it or your internet connection. Also what model of router are you currently using?

I did speed tests for both and the modem is faster 100% of the time almost by 5x sometimes, and i have a netgear wnr2000v3

 

[OlsonPolson]

Run a speed test each way (directly in modem and through your router). Your router may be going out or something on your network could be straining it or your internet connection. Also what model of router are you currently using?

I did speed tests for both and the modem is faster 100% of the time almost by 5x sometimes, and i have a netgear wnr2000v3

 

[bill001g]

Hard to say why but a number of people have this issue now and then. Most times it is related to cables or just some strange incompatibility between the router and the PC. Most time the port is dropping to half duplex which greatly degrades the speed....but there is little you can do since you can not even think to set the option on most routers. All you can is try some different cables. You can also try newer firmware on the router to see if you get lucky.

Very technically a router will always be slower than a modem. A router must manipulate every packet to convert the private addresses to the shared public one. This of course takes time. Now if you had a 15 year old router with the tiny processors they used to run you might see some detectible slowness but the newer devices are so fast that that only advanced network measuring equipment can detect it..no way a person could tell.

 

[Clayto1332]

^this

 

[OlsonPolson]

Hard to say why but a number of people have this issue now and then. Most times it is related to cables or just some strange incompatibility between the router and the PC. Most time the port is dropping to half duplex which greatly degrades the speed....but there is little you can do since you can not even think to set the option on most routers. All you can is try some different cables. You can also try newer firmware on the router to see if you get lucky.

Very technically a router will always be slower than a modem. A router must manipulate every packet to convert the private addresses to the shared public one. This of course takes time. Now if you had a 15 year old router with the tiny processors they used to run you might see some detectible slowness but the newer devices are so fast that that only advanced network measuring equipment can detect it..no way a person could tell.

Do you think getting century link, which is what i'm switching to soon, and them giving me a new modem/router combo would help stop this problem? Century link will have cables that go underground and no satellite, but i'm using a satellite currently for this internet. The modem even though it's faster it's still not that faster than my router.

 

[bill001g]

It will be amazingly faster no matter what you use. Satellite is painful to use when you have used any other form of internet.

Just for simplicity try to use their box, you really don't need your router and I would only consider it if it has feature (like VPN or firewall) that vendor router does not.

You have to be very careful about chasing "faster". You can buy a super fast sports car but if the road in front of your house has a speed limit of 20mph with cops standing every 50ft it will go no faster than the neighbors econobox.

As long as the modem/router from the vendor can go as fast as the connection to your house runs then nothing will make it run faster. This of course only applies to things on the internet if you have servers in your house that is a different subject.

 

[OlsonPolson]

It will be amazingly faster no matter what you use. Satellite is painful to use when you have used any other form of internet.

Just for simplicity try to use their box, you really don't need your router and I would only consider it if it has feature (like VPN or firewall) that vendor router does not.

You have to be very careful about chasing "faster". You can buy a super fast sports car but if the road in front of your house has a speed limit of 20mph with cops standing every 50ft it will go no faster than the neighbors econobox.

As long as the modem/router from the vendor can go as fast as the connection to your house runs then nothing will make it run faster. This of course only applies to things on the internet if you have servers in your house that is a different subject.

See that's the problem with my neighborhood, It's new. our neighborhood can't have the chances to get better internet because not very many people are in it yet. But they have recently been putting more boxes by roads and are getting closer and closer to our house every month it seems. They said we will get about 3 mb /s which is better than what our last internet service provider was giving us, 1.5 mb/s