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maybe it's one of the cheapest 108mbps routers on the market, but it has excellent build quality, which is why I bought mine, plus netgear has a very nice built in firewall with the 624, and the range on mine is unbelievable, I get perfect signal in places I couldn't get any signal with a regular 54mbps linksys router like you had
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I bought the same wireless when I got my laptop last year and it is awesome.. the range and signal strength are great. I won't be changing it any time soon.
 
I completely agree with both of you. These routers are awesome and I tell everyone that is looking for wireless networking to try to find these cause of the range and reliability. (ebay has alot of them real cheap!)
 
i know its good, but its a corporate connection, i had some in austin test it and it did 50000kb down and 10000 up...i think it would go faster but i think it was maxing out the test site...its an oc192 line 10gbps line split over about 20,000 connections
 
I just ran speed test from work jsut to see what I would get, and I got a strange result. My upload speeds are consistantly faster than my downloads.

I am in rochester NY these are the results i got in each server

seattle Wa Download--->3286kbps Upload--->5007kbps
San Fran CA Download--->3444kbps Upload--->5271kbps
LA CA Download--->3639kbps Upload--->5699kbps
Dallas TX Download--->4263kbps Upload--->7615kbps
NY, NY Download--->6125kbps Upload--->6763kbps

Is this a fluke, or is the firewall screwing something up
 
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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My Speedtest results. Not bragging. I am paying for 3Mbps service.

6 months ago I was getting sub 200k service.

It seems that my nice dsl provider had oversold local service and the system was well above 100% saturation.

When dsl service suddenly declines, and all the obvious computer settings and malware has been eliminated, don't blame your system, instead start checking the provider.

 
I just ran speed test from work jsut to see what I would get, and I got a strange result. My upload speeds are consistantly faster than my downloads.

I am in rochester NY these are the results i got in each server

seattle Wa Download--->3286kbps Upload--->5007kbps
San Fran CA Download--->3444kbps Upload--->5271kbps
LA CA Download--->3639kbps Upload--->5699kbps
Dallas TX Download--->4263kbps Upload--->7615kbps
NY, NY Download--->6125kbps Upload--->6763kbps

Is this a fluke, or is the firewall screwing something up
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Neither.

The results are perfectly logical and most likely correct.

I can not explain the technical stuff, but will give it a shot in basic terms. If you are at work, and depending upon your type of service, it is possible to set the system up with various upload and download settings depending upon their own needs. Most likely they are trying to have identical upload and download settings. Now actual performance is dependant upon your computer's settings, as well as the net's load, distance etc.

If you were to tweek your computer's settings, you might get better or equal results (or maybe not).

At the same time, the business system could be modified for higher download speeds, and lower upload speeds, or visa versa.
 
Business connections are not uncapped. Unless the company is paying a LOT. Usually business connections cost more per MB than residential since they are used more heavily. There may be some providers that will open up your limit during down times, but it's not going to be uncapped and usually this sort of thing is for residential vs business. If you know of a provider that does uncap for certain (like one of their NE told you), let us know!
 
That kind of price for a t1 is going to be shared, no way is it a dedicated one. And a t1 is only 1.5mbps. When I uncap my modem I have two ds3's at my disposal, that's 90mbps, but docsis 1.1 doesn't like going that fast and theres always load, hence my 20mpbs max. Companies like ford would have ds3 or even oc3 most likely, maybe even bigger, and I can tell you those are well over the $10k mark a month. Those kinds of connections would be dedicated in most cases so you could get the full 45-150mbps out of them, but that's not the same as a cable or dsl modem being uncaped.
 
You really should brush up. DSL isn't set at a specific speed, there's 256k, 512k, 1024k, 2048k, etc in synch or asynch versions meaning upload will be the same or be different respectively. T1 isn't faster than cable unless the cable is less than 1.5mbps, course full T1's are a full non shared 1.5 synch. Fractional T1's are in 64k incriments usually with bursts of up to 1.5mbps. A T3 for DS3 (same basic thing) is 45mbps, usually only sold to larger business' and backhauls for ISP's. OC3's are 150mbps links again usually only sold to providers and large companies. There are many more speeds available, like the OC192 someone mentioned above, up to OC768 which is almost 40gbps only used for interstate backhauls through the likes of at&t, mci, etc.

DSL and Cable are simply a means to get to the ISP's backbones, whatever they may be; just like dial-up. I've had aDSL going over 8mbps for short runs, aDSL and sDSL can hit over 20 depending on the DSLAMs in use, vDSL will go much faster; around 200mbps. Cable can go well over any of those, but if the ISP doesn't have enough bandwidth to the net, you won't see it. I can provision my cable modems for various speeds from 256k to 8mbps (our current max speed that we sell) with uploads to 1mbps. Once my companies network goes to docsis 2 devices those speeds will be able to go even higher. Docsis 1 is capable of about 40mbps down and 10 up, docsis 2 ups the up to arond 30mbps max.

DSL is very dependant on the distance to the CO (central office) of the telco company, closer equals faster. Cable doesn't have this limitation as fiber is run from the HE to the nodes where it breaks out to the houses nearest the node. Usually very short runs so very little loss is incured. The cable network is basically just as capable as fiber systems as we do have the ability to run fiber to houses (or business') and run it straight into our backbones. Fiber will always have a max bandwidth advantage over coax however. Since we have fiber so fully deployed it won't be a huge step for cable operators to switch to fiber to the house through the use of multiplexing. I run point to point fiber for a few of my customers and I've turned up enough frame relay, T1's and DS3's to know what I'm talking about.

Please educate yourself on connection types and speeds before posting "DSL is 1.5mbps", it can only make you look stupid.
 
that's better to hear, but you may want to be more careful when making comments on someone, still, on the internet connections, since the op has pretty much left, we might as well just leave the thread, there isn't much point to it anymore
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Hey, I'm still here! I get an email whenever someone replies, so I've checked it quite a few times.

The topic, however, is completely dead, lol!

~Ibrahim~
 
IMO wireless is for laptops. Use cat 5e or 6 for your home network and encrypt your wireless to minimize it eating your bandwidth or people stealing it. Could even turn it off if you leave a spot on your desk for your laptop to be plugged in when you're home. The truth is although you might pay for higher bandwidth speeds, you may not see them. I wouldn't bother if I were you. If you do, get a gaming router for gigabyte lan, like those from D-Link and make sure your cable modem is Docsis 2.0. Odds are, it is. But check anyway. Them ar ma two bitz.
 
Well, I got the Video with the Download Embedded plug in for Firefox and it came out .flv. So I used SUPER to convert it to .3gp (and extract MP3)...I wanted .GIF for a startup image, but that is OK.

I think I found my new ringtone, lmao!

I think the real, human one is funny, but it can't beat the originality of the Family Guy one.

~Ibrahim~
 
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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the problem here is, you have to limit your upload, the more you use the upload, the less control the adsl line will have to download..
so if you have a lot of people doing p2p with huge upload, you will choke your dsl to dead..
limit the upload to the p2p applications to less than 80% of your upload speed, that should give the necesary to still download correctly
 
I think you should also make this a ringtone, my favorite song of the week
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OyxNgnQ9m30
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lmao...Where do you find these things?

@tamalero

Hi! Thanks for the response, but I kind of got the issue resolved. Yeah, I try not to use P2P apps, at all.

~Ibrahim~
 
its a dedicated oc192 line...its not capped, 60,000+ employees needs lots of bandwidth, but even still, the limiting factors is not my internet...its the test server, the fact that my computer only has a 100Mbit NIC, so thats my limit... and we run 24 hrs a day so there isnt a time that i would be the only one there
 
I didn't call you stupid, I simply said saying something like that makes you "look" stupid, for all I know you're a rocket scientist.
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Actually, he's 14. I don't care if he's got an IQ of a billion. There's only so much you can learn in 14 years. Like how nipples hurt during puberty...or how to walk and poo in the potty. 😛 I think the adult perspective doesn't really begin to develop until most people reach 20ish. How can you think like an adult if you've just come out from under the parental wing? My point is, he's a cocky 14 year old...and we've got to tolerate them on forums and in games like Halo2...until they start requiring credit cards for both and banning parents from the internet who let their kids play M-rated games. =\
 
its a dedicated oc192 line...its not capped, 60,000+ employees needs lots of bandwidth, but even still, the limiting factors is not my internet...its the test server, the fact that my computer only has a 100Mbit NIC, so thats my limit... and we run 24 hrs a day so there isnt a time that i would be the only one there
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Are you saying you don't have to wait on Tom's slow server to upload? 😛
 
lool, its still slow from their end...look at the ISP on my work post and it will explain who i work for.
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Nope angel, I'm still in the dark. Your work post? You mean a previous one? I didn't really catch anything in there that would give it away...am I missing something?
 


mayn, if you lookin to upgrade ya internet speed - look at it from a price vs performance perspective and whether you need the extra speed.

jus changed from 3 Mbps/256 Kbps to 7 / 800... and a I notice a huge difference, and it only cost $5 more.

as for routers... pick somethin that does at least 54 mbps, although you will notice a slight performance decrease (as compared to 100 Mbps wired connection) which is kind of obvious due to interference and a slower protocol. 108 and 125 mbps routers are pretty, I have myself a 108 mbps buffalo wireless router and it runs beautiful, has a long range too.
 
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