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Posted by PackratŪ on February 20, 2005, 7:26 pm
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> All...I thought I would share a few things...
>
> 1) I upgraded to Comcast Gold - but I was not getting the download
> speeds of 6000...more like 3000 to 4000. The uploads were avg 730 up.
> It was suggested that a tech come out to measure signal strength. So I
> scheduled a tech to come out to check my signals...in the meanwhile...I
> was out of town all last week. When I came back - my speeds were
> around 5000 on avg. The tech came out this morning and said they had
> been working on the nodes last week and that may explain my speed
> increase.
>
> 2) Originally - when I had HSI setup - they installed an amplifier in
> my house. The tech noticed it and said that since Comcast has done all
> the field upgrades - the amp is no longer needed for HSI, and may
> actually hurt service. He said it's ok for TV - but not needed for
> HSI. He bypassed the amp for the cable modem service - and yes -
> speeds jumped up to 5500 on average.
>
> 3) He was ok with me having a router - but to be clean we bypassed the
> router and went PC to Cable Modem for all the work and testing. When we
> put the Linksys BEFSR11 ver 1.1 (firmware 1.46.02, Aug 03 2004) router
> back into the mix, the speeds seem to slow down a bit - and there is
> clear latency issue - where it is now taking longer to load and refresh
> pages. Now I am avg 5400 - with a clear delay in loading and
> refreshing pages compared to not having the router in the mix.
>
> Has anyone else seen a diff between with router and without router?
>
We've seen some issue in the DSL world among various router manufacturers.
You might want to checkout the forums on http://www.broadbandreports.com.
I have seen posts regarding certain Linksys units which were not able to
handle speeds over 5Mbps on the WAN side, even though they are "spec'd"
at 10. Another thing to check is the MTU. I believe 1500 should be the
default for cable. Perhaps you could borrow a different router and test
the theory...?
jpac
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