The Bachelor Boi
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|  [ HOW TO ] Effectively Use a 16 MB Connection
I would like to share my findings in an attempt to both answer questions of my own as well as provide an answer to others whom I am sure have the same thoughts as myself!
I recently switched to a new service provider after moving. This provider (Hometown Cable Plus), which is not listed anywhere on this site so I posted here, offered a 16MB service, which I gladly tried out!
Now here's the inside scoop... I live in a very newly developed neighborhood, the entire neighborhood is wired with direct fiber optic to each house (also meaning hometown cable is the only provider for cable, telephone and internet at this time). But that's actually good news to me, because after subscribing to the service and pluging my first computer in for a test run, I receive over 40MB down and 2MB up. Herein lying the problem...
I have now been though several versions of routers, primarily netgear models but also linksys ones. Each of which, I have listed my outcome to below. The problem is, I can't seem to find a router that can handle properly sharing that amount of speed. And the most I can ultimately get after adding a router from any given pc is 12 MB down and 2MB UP. So what is the best router to use to effectively share this massive amount of bandwidth. I specifically need a device that has a built in firewall as well as the ability to se static ips within the router, which is why I generally trust and use the netgear brand.
NETGEAR FVS318v3 - No more than 8MB down and 2 MB up
Ultimately I found the problem to lie within the cpu and build of the product itself, there is no fix at this time.
NETGEAR WPN824 - No more than 12MB down and 2 MB up
Not sure why this router does not allow higher throughput.
LINKSYS RTP300 - The same results as above, this router was used because I do intend to use VoIP as well.
Please feel free to add your own thoughts and suggestions. Thank you for any feedback you leave! |
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CMoore2004
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Jonesville, MI
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| You want to use static public IP's or private IP's? My Buffalo is probably the fastest router I've had. If your ISP will give you multiple public IP's, have you considered just using a switch?
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The Bachelor Boi
@htcplus.net | reply to The Bachelor Boi
Sorry for the confusion, I want to statically assign internal network ips from the router to specific network devices. Such as 192.168.0.xxx |
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CMoore2004
i r teh smarts
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Jonesville, MI | I'm pretty sure they all let you disable DHCP and do it your way. Perhaps you mean you want them statically assigned by the DHCP server, which any router running DD-WRT is capable of. My WHR-HP-G54 performs excellent and can run DD-WRT. |
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Hayward
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Key West, FL | reply to The Bachelor Boi
Also guessing you really meant 16mb (bit) not MB (Byte) connection because that would be really impressive... for peanut cost.
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