What are the Best Speed Settings?

[GcpMC]

I have a netgear wireless g router wgr614v9 54 MBPS and it is slow, i have alot of devices, and the Default settings have been added, and it's not tweaked up. I read online about the MTU Size lowered to 1400 Improves speed, and it did for me, but im wondering what else can help?

My Speedtest for my PC : http://www.speedtest.net/result/4590591154.png

I heard QoS can give like you're Xbox best Speed, but i can't Find it, i have WMM idk what it does people say to enable it and some say don't idk whats best. Heres other stuff aswell :

My UPnP is ON
I Heard it's best to untick "Disable SPI Firewall" it helps DDoS but its just extra protection, idk if i should test the speed without it.

Should i Disable SIP ALG? Some people say it you want to use like Your Xbox, or PC to game it.

can block it and slow it down. I don't know wat to do to tweak it up and have thebest settings.

NOTE :
Please help me i backed up my settings incase anything happens, but i am careful what i do and read online before i do it but i want help what helps you guys and what should be on and not.

 

[bill001g]

If you are running wireless on a old 802.11g router with lots of device you are actually getting pretty good numbers.

You always want to test on wired because wireless is subject to interference from outside your house you can do little about.

If you were running 802.11n you have to leave wmm enabled for wpa2 to work......well at least the standard says it must work that way some router cheat. It really makes no difference in the real world. Random wireless interference will have far more effect than any benifit you could gain. I forget how the packets even get marked, I think it really is only usable in a enterprise install because the ISP would have to mark packets and how would they know you wanted game packets favored

You can turn off the other option but they likely put little burden on the router.

If your router was any of the current ones I would say the cpu is more than fast enough, a router that is 5-7 years old maybe it will bottleneck.

Then again you are only getting 4m which is not a lot of traffic for even a old router to process.

Maybe the better question is how much do you buy from the ISP. It will only run as fast as the plan you purchase from them.

 

[GcpMC]

If you are running wireless on a old 802.11g router with lots of device you are actually getting pretty good numbers.

You always want to test on wired because wireless is subject to interference from outside your house you can do little about.

If you were running 802.11n you have to leave wmm enabled for wpa2 to work......well at least the standard says it must work that way some router cheat. It really makes no difference in the real world. Random wireless interference will have far more effect than any benifit you could gain. I forget how the packets even get marked, I think it really is only usable in a enterprise install because the ISP would have to mark packets and how would they know you wanted game packets favored

You can turn off the other option but they likely put little burden on the router.

If your router was any of the current ones I would say the cpu is more than fast enough, a router that is 5-7 years old maybe it will bottleneck.

Then again you are only getting 4m which is not a lot of traffic for even a old router to process.

Maybe the better question is how much do you buy from the ISP. It will only run as fast as the plan you purchase from them.

Thanks for Replying, the amount spent on the Internet is around $50 a Month, Netwest is the provider. Do you think if the router is upgraded it will help alot or not much? also can it be any router? or only a NetGear one, or a specific # as my old one?

 

[bill001g]

It might but it depends how much speed the ISP says you are suppose to get. If you are only suppose to get 4m then you are at the max if they say you can get say 50m then a new router would likely help.

From what I can tell you have another box in your house that is a modem that the router connects the wan port to. This generally means you can use pretty much any router with any brand.

My guess is it would run better especially if your end devices have new nic that also support 802.11n. I would look for a mid priced dual band router. You should find a number in the $50-$75 range. There are not huge difference between routers in that group. Mostly the difference is how good the support is from company that makes them so stay with the better known brands.

The very first thing to check though is what the maximum rate you are paying for. If it is running at the max rate you really don't want to mess with things

 

[Kewlx25]

A smaller MTU, like 1400, only helps if your ISP uses non-standard MTU sizes, like if they're using DSL with PPPOE, which is something like 1460 instead of 1500. Fragmenting packets hurts performance.

If your router supports QoS, don't forget to set the rate limiting. QoS is worthless without rate limiting.