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Thanks for the info, chuck!

Yeah, I've learned that pings matter in gaming and a faster connection doesn't always lower the pings. And pings go higher with more stops to make, like in a router. Let me look up some more information on that router, if it can give me more than QoS, I might grab it. And Gigabit would be nice, the connection on my motherboard is going to waste, as of right now.

Thanks!

~Ibrahim~
 
Ibrahim,

what version router are you running btw?


Through a stock linksys router's wireless connection (miracle it stayed up long enough to run)




about draft .11n .... the first draft and second drafts are completely different from one another. If memory serves first draft products raised hell with channel freq harmonics. Also from what I read there is going to possibly be two more revisions before it's finalized
 
Ibrahim,

what version router are you running btw?


Through a stock linksys router's wireless connection (miracle it stayed up long enough to run)




about draft .11n .... the first draft and second drafts are completely different from one another. If memory serves first draft products raised hell with channel freq harmonics. Also from what I read there is going to possibly be two more revisions before it's finalized
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Hi! I'm using the WRT54G V3. Nice speed on wireless!

Yeah, I don't think I'll be needing draft-N or any 'N' at all. The two laptops I use are just for simple web browsing and e-mail. Nice info, though.

~Ibrahim~
 
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Damn, so close but i couldnt beat you. Kudos man, your e-penis is bigger than mine, albeit by a very close margin! But wait a sec. I win on the upload, ha! i have a bigger server bandwith! 😛

I'm running a d-link 4300 gamers lounge.
 
Hi, I've had a wireless network for about a year now. Now we have three total computers and the internet seems slower, on all three computers, even the one that is wired straight to the router. Right now I have 3Mbps/384k. If I upgraded to 6Mbps/512k, would that make it faster?

~Ibrahim~
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Contrary to popular opinion, the answer to this is it depends. If you are sufficiently far enough from a CO, whether you upgrade from 3.0 to 6.0 or 60.0 or 600.0, it won't get any faster unless they agree to install a repeater. That's because the signal degrades and provider isn't artificially capping speed at that point. It becomes a matter of physics.

I suggest you do upgrade only if there's a guaranteed minimum speed so if you aren't reaching at least the minimum consistently or you aren't getting any faster, then you can force them to lower the speed and save the money since the higher speed didn't get you anything anyways.

I went from 3 to 6 and I found that my download speed increased a little from 1.7 to 3.2MB/s. I'm probably 10,000-15,000 feet from a CO.
 
Hi, I've had a wireless network for about a year now. Now we have three total computers and the internet seems slower, on all three computers, even the one that is wired straight to the router. Right now I have 3Mbps/384k. If I upgraded to 6Mbps/512k, would that make it faster?

~Ibrahim~
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"seems slower" slower than what? When? How? You must quantify and then isolate the source of your woes if you are to overcome your obstacle on your path to obtain streaming pornucopic bliss. If you seek faster internet you must first quantify faster and then obtain and verify it. Many a shady solution provider will promise to revolutionize your experience if you do not define what you actually want from them. If you seek only internet that "seems" faster the obstacle is not your DSLAM, nor your s/n ratio, nor even the uptime, latencies, or dynamic fair usage policies that your carrier provides. The only obstacle to your happiness is in your own mind. Change your expectations and you'll change your world. Never was I happier then when I enjoyed watching illegal images of disheveled low-res copulation over my 23k connection to AOL load 1 line of pixels at a time. This is the Yin and the Yang of PC progress. You must strike a ballance or you may consume all the bandwidth in the world and never be satisfied, your clicking finger exhuasted, and your HD empty.
Oh Boy.

-Flasher702 speaking on the Zen of Network Performance

Seriously though "seems slower" isn't much information. Do some speed tests, some ping tests, exhaustively attempt to see if there is anything within your own network you can do to increase performance before you fork out more money for extra bandwidth that might not even fix your problem.
 
For DSL, are you sharing it with your TV? And how many neighbours are on your same line? You might find that your CIR drops considerably during peak viewing times. Other than that, 'familiarity and contempt' comes to mind 1.5 Mbps was blazingly fast when I first got it... Now I want 8Mbps.
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erm...you're confusing DSL with Cable. DSL comes over a phone line Cable comes over...'cable'. :roll:

I have Cable but at peak times of the day my data transfer rates drop like huge elephant turds....this only just started happening early this year and I was hoping that by now my ISP would have fixed the problem. I guess it's time to try DSL???
 
Hi, I've had a wireless network for about a year now. Now we have three total computers and the internet seems slower, on all three computers, even the one that is wired straight to the router. Right now I have 3Mbps/384k. If I upgraded to 6Mbps/512k, would that make it faster?

~Ibrahim~
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"seems slower" slower than what? When? How? You must quantify and then isolate the source of your woes if you are to overcome your obstacle on your path to obtain streaming pornucopic bliss. If you seek faster internet you must first quantify faster and then obtain and verify it. Many a shady solution provider will promise to revolutionize your experience if you do not define what you actually want from them. If you seek only internet that "seems" faster the obstacle is not your DSLAM, nor your s/n ratio, nor even the uptime, latencies, or dynamic fair usage policies that your carrier provides. The only obstacle to your happiness is in your own mind. Change your expectations and you'll change your world. Never was I happier then when I enjoyed watching illegal images of disheveled low-res copulation over my 23k connection to AOL load 1 line of pixels at a time. This is the Yin and the Yang of PC progress. You must strike a ballance or you may consume all the bandwidth in the world and never be satisfied, your clicking finger exhuasted, and your HD empty.
Oh Boy.

-Flasher702 speaking on the Zen of Network Performance

Seriously though "seems slower" isn't much information. Do some speed tests, some ping tests, exhaustively attempt to see if there is anything within your own network you can do to increase performance before you fork out more money for extra bandwidth that might not even fix your problem.

Haha, great quote...

Yeah, I ran those "tests" and they all came back negative: nothing is qualitatively slower, it just felt slower. Might've been my head screwing with me; either way, it seems to be back at its normal speed or I've gotten used to 'slow'. Thanks again!

Yeah, I've decided to keep my 3Mbps until Verizon FiOS discovers Kentucky, lol!

~Ibrahim~
 
do somewhere farther than chicago if you are only 50 miles away, do san fransisco to show what you're actual speeds are, only from testing a server far away will you properly test your cable speeds
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No, you should do your speed test to something nearby, otherwise you're just testing internet congestion and while that may be interesting that's not your connection speed and will vary widely and almost unpredictably. Ideally you want something that is as close as possible that isn't within your upstream network connection. You want to test your connection speed to the internet, not your connection speed to the guy next door using the same provider because you're just boucing off your local node, AP, or CO so that doesn't really count. And you don't want to test your speed to something on the other side of the world because then you are dealing with multiple hops, oceanic long-hauls, and internet congestion that has absolutely nothing to do with you or your upline provider. The only thing your carrier has control over is your speed to the nearsest backbone node, that's what you want to test. If you read the instructions on the speedtest they say to pick the server closest to you, this is why.
 
I've got and 8x512 through my company. Best thing about it is the approx 50ms ping time out of our network. At that point it's out of the ISP's control but my pfsense firewall can easily handle 20Mbps if I open it up. It's an old dell P4 1.7 with 512ram. Kick linksys in the A$$! I also run a second 3x1 out of the same firewall for all my work systems. Faster is better!
 
Actually I have the WGT624 v2 I bought about it about a year and a half ago for $50. I call it cheap cause at the time it was the cheapest one I could find with 108 speeds. Before it I had the Linksys WRT54g and it cost more and I got inconsistant speeds with it.
 
Yeah? :) Here's mine:



This is on my ISP's "standard" (5Mb/512Kb) service. Not the "lite" version, not the "extreme" (10Mb/1Mb), and not "Nitro" (25Mb/1Mb).

Clint
 
my connection is kinda weird actually, im in oklahoma city, i had direct to my isp in austin with oc192 then that was going out to the test server in houston, so my speed wasnt exactly accurate it would be faster...but it is a work connection,lol



thats my home internet which isnt bad considering i am on a connection that is supposed to be 4Mb down and 768k up
 
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