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Re: Has anyone upgraded their interest and purchased router? said by whsbuss:Yes your results make my point. If your PC and NAS are GigE, connecting them to your actiontec Rev E will limit LAN speed to 100MB.
You're confusing megabits and megabytes. There's 8 bits to a byte, so 1 gigbit is 1000/8= 125 megabytes per second in each direction. If I had my computer and NAS connected directly to the actiontec, they would be limited to 12.5 megabytes per second transfers, which they far exceed. |
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said by whsbuss:Yes your results make my point. If your PC and NAS are GigE, connecting them to your actiontec Rev E will limit LAN speed to 100MB.
You are completely wrong. WAN speed will be limited to 100Mb (not MB, MB=MegaBYTES, Mb=MegaBits) if the router has a 100Mb WAN port. With FiOS Quantum, the router has a 1Gb WAN port to accomodate the higher than 100Mb speeds.
The LAN speed will be limited by the speed of the ports on the router/switch. If the router has GigE ports for the LAN side of the router, then the speed will be limited to 1 gigabit per second (Gb, not GB) between devices on the LAN. |
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| said by davidplatt:You are completely wrong. WLAN speed will be limited to 100Mb (not MB, MB=MegaBYTES, Mb=MegaBits) if the router has a 100Mb WLAN port. With FiOS Quantum, the router has a 1Gb WLAN port to accomodate the higher than 100Mb speeds.
The LAN speed will be limited by the speed of the ports on the router/switch. If the router has GigE ports for the LAN side of the router, then the speed will be limited to 1 gigabit per second (Gb, not GB) between devices on the LAN.
change WLAN to WAN and everything that you said is correct, WLAN is usually means wireless lan |
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| I have changed it to WAN from WLAN.
I don't understand how anyone would actually think that device to device communications on the LAN side of a router would be controlled by the speed of the WAN port. They are two separate circuits.
And I just love people referrring to their 30MB connection instead of 30Mb connection. The case of the letters in this case matters!!!
I wish I could get a Triple Play for $137 a month with 30MB/30MB internet considering it has 30Mb/30Mb internet. I'd take an 8 times boost in speed for the same price. |
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said by lijacobs:said by Acct101:Note: I do not download, I just want faster page access. Like it used to be when broadband first came out. thanks
Upgrading to a higher speed tier won't affect how fast web pages load. I've found that the biggest reason that web pages load slowly is the load place by antivirus software. I don't think you'll notice any difference browsing if you're on the 35 Mbps tier, unless you're already maxing it out with large downloads or a bunch of people using it simultaneously-- or if you do a lot of torrents.
At home I have both a 10/1 connection from Road Runner, and a FIOS connection that hits 26/31. At $DAYJOB in a datacenter environment, I have the luxury of browsing via a multiple Gig-E's blend. I don't notice ANY difference browsing on Gig-E versus FIOS 25 Mbps, and barely notice the difference between FIOS and 10/1 Road Runner. To reiterate, this is for general browsing, YouTube, Netflix, remote desktop (Windows terminal server), etc.
Large downloads from MSDN and such-- big difference in some cases, if the server is well connected. But that's a small percentage of what I do online. |
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