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Boat Forum / Boats / January 2007RotoRooterRouter
I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port router. Ran a speed test immediately afterwards and noticed to my delight a 20% uptick in download speed. My old Netgear router was about five years old, I guess, and the Linksys router I bought was introduced two years ago, I was told. Interestingly, the number of wired routers available is down substantially since the advent of WiFi. I suppose almost everyone is going wireless in the home, but I still think wired is mo' betta. When we built this house, I connected several rooms with Cat5e cable. I do use wireless at the kitchen table sometimes, and it works just fine, but it is not nearly as fast as wired. The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. >I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of >buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. I have the same setup, only I had to run the cat cable after the house was built. I wired both kids bedrooms, my office, my wife's office and the basement game room. > I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead > of buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. I use a Linksys combo router. 4 ports wired and WIFI. Works great for the detached outbuildings. -W I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your download speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a fraction of the speed of any local router connections. Most hispeed internet connections, dsl, cable, etc. average somewhere around 1 to 2 meg. Local hardwired ethernet is either 10meg or 100 meg. Most local are 100meg. I'm thinking you did not do a valid comparison. It's hard to do a valid comparison as your hispeed internet connection speed also varies depending on who else is active in your immediate area as you share the routers belonging to your provider with your neighbors. As well as the type and length of the connection and the percentage of errors. >I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of >buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. > I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your download > speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a fraction of the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> >> The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. I have no idea, but it did. I test speed several times a week on three sites and I tested immediately after installing the new router. I never had speeds as high as the test now reports. As Yoda told me: Gift horses in the mouth look not. "Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message > I have no idea, but it did. I test speed several times a week on three > sites and I tested immediately after installing the new router. I never > had speeds as high as the test now reports. As Yoda told me: Gift horses > in the mouth look not. Baffles me too. Perhaps the old router or its software was just hosed in a manner that this new one is not. <shrug>. Just take it. -W >"Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Baffles me too. Perhaps the old router or its software was just hosed in a >manner that this new one is not. <shrug>. Just take it. Believe it or not, I've noticed the same here with hardwired vs wifi - the through put is much faster even when there are three or four computers on at the same time. One of the foster kids we currently have with us is really into playing WoW and that really eats up bandwidth - with the old wifi set up, you would notice it when she was playing - now, it's barely noticeable. Maybe the new routers are handling the through put differently? >> "Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Maybe the new routers are handling the through put differently? Just for grins, I plugged in my old router, ran the speed test, got the same old results, and then replugged in the new router, and got the faster speeds. Sorry to read about the loss of your dog. Losing a family pet really sucks. >>> "Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Sorry to read about the loss of your dog. Losing a family pet really sucks. yeah - thanks. >> I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your >> download speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > had speeds as high as the test now reports. As Yoda told me: Gift horses > in the mouth look not. In a router, the packet comes in and the ip header is stripped off, the mac address is changed to the mac of the router. The ip header is then reassembled and the packet is sent on its way. This happens for all packets both directions. With the new electronics and ASICS it is possible to read the packet in to a buffer and just stuff the new mac address into the packet - a LOT faster. I don't know if that is the answer for this router in particuar, but it general its very close. >>> I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your >>> download speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > packet - a LOT faster. I don't know if that is the answer for this router > in particuar, but it general its very close. Hey, thanks. > I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your download > speed by 20% since your connection to the internet is only a fraction of the > speed of any local router connections. Believe it. Newer routers, especially ones targeted toward the 'gamer' market, are generally faster at handling the overhead of routing your packets. Even more so when there are several computers hanging off the switch ports too. I found my old router worked best when I hung it off another switch instead of plugging the PCs right into it. The PC-to-PC traffic for file sharing and such was enough of a burden to also slow that older router's internet handling. Here's a comparison chart to consider: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=156 So while you're certainly going to be limited to the total uplink/downlink speed to your ISP, that router sitting in between may be slowing things down a lot more than you'd imagine. -Bill Kearney >> I'm having a hard timne figuring out how a new router improved your > download [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > -Bill Kearney Thanks. I've seen a chart similar to that one. But the routers on the site you offered up are wireless. Your point is made there, though. > > Here's a comparison chart to consider: > > http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=156 > > > Thanks. I've seen a chart similar to that one. But the routers on the > site you offered up are wireless. Your point is made there, though. Yeah, I've yet to come across one that focused on wireless only. I'd like to see the same sorts of test results. But given how cheap the wifi routers can be it might be worth using one and just disabling the wireless features. > Yeah, I've yet to come across one that focused on wireless only. I'd like > to see the same sorts of test results. But given how cheap the wifi routers > can be it might be worth using one and just disabling the wireless features. Along similar lines, there is a large Linux community of hackers having fun with those very same routers. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9515501295.html >I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of >buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one. You are right wireless is slower than cat5. The trade off being the wiring. I have an older house and used cat 5 for my office, where the router and my pc's are. But my wife wanted to be able to use her laptop in the living room, screened porch, basement... wireless is the way to go for portability. If you build a new house, absolutely you should wire it with cat 5 minimum. If adding a network to your existing house and need multiple drops, wireless is the way to go. |
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