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Posted by Justin on September 6, 2009, 6:35 pm
I set up some relatives with a Linksys cable modem router on their
Comcast connection. It is the WRT54G2 V1.5.
As soon as we connect the computer directly to the cable modem the speed
increases by a hell of alot.
I have WPA encryption enabled with a long password; a few sports figures
names and a massive number - 20 characters and impossible to guess; so I
don't see how anyone can be using it illegally.
Could the router be bad?
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Posted by $Bill on September 6, 2009, 8:05 pm
Justin wrote:
> I set up some relatives with a Linksys cable modem router on their
> Comcast connection. It is the WRT54G2 V1.5.
> As soon as we connect the computer directly to the cable modem the speed
> increases by a hell of alot.
> I have WPA encryption enabled with a long password; a few sports figures
> names and a massive number - 20 characters and impossible to guess; so I
> don't see how anyone can be using it illegally.
>
> Could the router be bad?
Test numbers ?
I assume you mean that a wired connection is faster than a
wireless connection. It has a 10/100 switch for wired
access and that would give you 100 Mbps vs 54 Mbps when
running wireless (minus any extra crap for encryption), so
I would think you should get at least double the speed when
running wired.
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Posted by Bill M. on September 7, 2009, 12:02 am
wrote:
>Justin wrote:
>> I set up some relatives with a Linksys cable modem router on their
>> Comcast connection. It is the WRT54G2 V1.5.
>> As soon as we connect the computer directly to the cable modem the speed
>> increases by a hell of alot.
>> I have WPA encryption enabled with a long password; a few sports figures
>> names and a massive number - 20 characters and impossible to guess; so I
>> don't see how anyone can be using it illegally.
>>
>> Could the router be bad?
>Test numbers ?
>I assume you mean that a wired connection is faster than a
>wireless connection. It has a 10/100 switch for wired
>access and that would give you 100 Mbps vs 54 Mbps when
>running wireless (minus any extra crap for encryption), so
>I would think you should get at least double the speed when
>running wired.
I believe best case actual throughput on a 802.11g connection is about
24 Mbps, but that's still quite a bit faster than most people's
Internet connection, so the bottleneck wouldn't be the wireless
portion. OTOH, we don't know if the wireless portion is connected at
802.11b, with about 6 Mbps throughput. Without more numbers and
details, it's hard to tell.
--
Bill
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Posted by Justin on September 7, 2009, 3:08 pm
$Bill wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>> I set up some relatives with a Linksys cable modem router on their
>> Comcast connection. It is the WRT54G2 V1.5.
>> As soon as we connect the computer directly to the cable modem the
>> speed increases by a hell of alot.
>> I have WPA encryption enabled with a long password; a few sports
>> figures names and a massive number - 20 characters and impossible to
>> guess; so I don't see how anyone can be using it illegally.
>> Could the router be bad?
>
> Test numbers ?
>
> I assume you mean that a wired connection is faster than a
> wireless connection. It has a 10/100 switch for wired
> access and that would give you 100 Mbps vs 54 Mbps when
> running wireless (minus any extra crap for encryption), so
> I would think you should get at least double the speed when
> running wired.
No, I mean the wired connection is just as slow as the wireless.
I don't need numbers, youtube takes forever to load on the router, it
takes a second connected directly.
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Posted by $Bill on September 7, 2009, 7:03 pm
Justin wrote:
>
> No, I mean the wired connection is just as slow as the wireless.
So when you say directly connected, you mean to the modem and not
the router ?
> I don't need numbers, youtube takes forever to load on the router, it
> takes a second connected directly.
How long does it take to go to a speed test site and run both scenarios
to give us some idea ?
Do you have the latest firmware for the router installed ?
Have you tried powering the router for a couple of minutes and resetting
it back to the default config and then setting it back up again (shouldn't
require much if any setup) ?
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> Comcast connection. It is the WRT54G2 V1.5.
> As soon as we connect the computer directly to the cable modem the speed
> increases by a hell of alot.
> I have WPA encryption enabled with a long password; a few sports figures
> names and a massive number - 20 characters and impossible to guess; so I
> don't see how anyone can be using it illegally.
>
> Could the router be bad?