fhaber
Enhanced For Lynx
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New York, NY
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July 24th, @10:11AM
| 54G 1.x-es Maxed Out With Mach 20?
I've had RCN cablemodem for years, with stellar service. I recently reorganized my package, getting their "Mach 20," I guess. In any case, SE's NYC and DSLR's "NJ" speedtest show the expected 2MBPS up, which is of course sweet. The clinker is that the download speeds haven't gone up much from the solid 6.4 I've enjoyed for years.
I have two Linky 54Gs, a 1.0 and a 1.1 (not many lightning strikes in Manhattan). Both run oldish versions of HyperWRT/Tibor. They're super-solid, and I'm reluctant to change that.
Oh, did I say I run 98% of the time with the radio off? 11G in NYC is often not worth the trouble - just too much interference.
All my machines give the same speed - Win, Xandros, OS X.
A couple of years ago, I returned my rented RCA 350 and put in a Tosh 2500 cablemodem. I got about a 10% speed boost in DL from that, from 5.5 to 6.0.
Do these old 54Gs have enough CPU to give more? Should I at least TRY direct connect? (Gulp, have to make that firewall hot.) |
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punker
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Palmdale, CA
clubs: | yea they do the olerd gs v1 v2 can do 22mbps n the WAN
V3,v4+ can do 33mbps on the WAN |
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fhaber
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New York, NY | 22mpbs? Good to know.
What's "olerd gs" BTW? |
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NetFixer
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Murfreesboro, TN
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July 25th, @10:00AM
| said by fhaber  :What's "olerd gs" BTW?
Some posters here speak a dialect of anagram and texting rather than standard English.
My interpretation would be "older WRT54Gs" 
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Test your firewall. |
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no_one
@QWEST.NET
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Only way to know for sure is try a direct connection. If you have XP the XP firewall should be enough if turned on with no exceptions to stop incoming. Plus do not have to do it permanently just some short speedtest tries.
May be the router may even need a different firmware. To many rules or SPI may slow the firmware down. |
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punker
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Palmdale, CA
clubs: | reply to NetFixer
it's faster |
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fhaber
Enhanced For Lynx
join:1999-11-23
New York, NY | reply to no_one
It's the same with direct connect. I'm on it with RCN TS now. |
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fhaber
Enhanced For Lynx
join:1999-11-23
New York, NY | reply to fhaber
Denoument: It was the cablemodem. Tosh 2500 couldn't do more than 6 down, no matter what bloviators on the web say. I'm back to rental, and the RCN-supplied Moto gives me 19-20 firm. |
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