Newbie question

[stephenm1]

Hello,
I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media's Fibre optic 50MB package. I am seeing noticeable improvements in speed, but i am wondering if my router is slowing this down. I have the Modem and Router that came free with the package. I have a LAN setup with the computer next door - which is wireless.
The router is a D-Link DIR-615. According to the Task Manager the link speed is 100Mbps.
On speedtest i can get upto 48MB p/s, but when it comes to downloading movies or similarly large files i have never seen the speed over 300KBp/s...virgin said a 15GB ble ray movie should take only one hour..a 500MB one takes me 2 hours, not happy atm. I have read that the better routers can achieve 300Mbps. Could anyone tell me is there anyway that i could get a faster connection, be it buying a new router or whatever.

 

[Saga Lout]

Hello,
I recently upgraded my broadband to Virgin Media's Fibre optic 50MB package. I am seeing noticeable improvements in speed, but i am wondering if my router is slowing this down. I have the Modem and Router that came free with the package. I have a LAN setup with the computer next door - which is wireless.
The router is a D-Link DIR-615. According to the Task Manager the link speed is 100Mbps.
On speedtest i can get upto 48MB p/s, but when it comes to downloading movies or similarly large files i have never seen the speed over 300KBp/s...virgin said a 15GB ble ray movie should take only one hour..a 500MB one takes me 2 hours, not happy atm. I have read that the better routers can achieve 300Mbps. Could anyone tell me is there anyway that i could get a faster connection, be it buying a new router or whatever.

If you can get 48Mb some of the time, it's there all of the time. The problem with downloading is the upload speed of the sender and sometimes, that just isn't up to your standard so your download takes longer.

 

[stephenm1]

sorry been on vacation hence the late reply.

Yes i understand that, but i want to know if buying a 300mbps router would make a differance. Which i assume it would or why else would they make them

 

[mhelm1]

The catch is " Up to 50Mbs "
I would expect DSL to normally run around 300Kbs, but at times 50Mbs.
Yes, if speeds go above 20Mbs(your free router)then you would be limited.
This router would work as well, Linksys WRT54GL