| [NV] Cox Fiber - Not Getting Correct Speeds Don't know if this is the right area as pretty sure mostly used for cable internet but I just got Cox Fiber installed and not getting even half of my speed... If I plug directly into my laptop and run a speedtest I do.. But once I through my network switch into the mix and run a speed test I get 80-150Mb/20Mb when suppose to be getting 500Mb/500Mb....
Anyone suggest some good equipment or maybe settings or something to get the correct speeds? |
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| said by SteveLV702:Don't know if this is the right area as pretty sure mostly used for cable internet but I just got Cox Fiber installed and not getting even half of my speed... If I plug directly into my laptop and run a speedtest I do.. But once I through my network switch into the mix and run a speed test I get 80-150Mb/20Mb when suppose to be getting 500Mb/500Mb....
Anyone suggest some good equipment or maybe settings or something to get the correct speeds?
Where are you doing a speedtest at? Depending on routing/etc most speedtests wont get anywere close to 500mb. Speed/duplex could be any issue too make sure you are linking up at 1000/full, sometimes switch-switch can result in duplex issues. |
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| reply to SteveLV702
i had no idea Cox even supplied fiber to customers (i know that they have a fiber backbone but never knew they could deliver fiber straight to the customer i assume your a business or a enthusiast) |
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| said by bryant313:i had no idea Cox even supplied fiber to customers (i know that they have a fiber backbone but never knew they could deliver fiber straight to the customer i assume your a business or a enthusiast)
Yes just very very expensive..
said by cooldude9919:Where are you doing a speedtest at? Depending on routing/etc most speedtests wont get anywere close to 500mb. Speed/duplex could be any issue too make sure you are linking up at 1000/full, sometimes switch-switch can result in duplex issues.)
well I tried to do on cox's test servers »test.lvcm.com but doesn't seem to wanna work on any of my mac's so used speedtest.net looking in switch settings not even seeing a setting for 1000/full or even a setting for a speed/duplex. |
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| Your better off using Verizon's speedtest, being that they offer FTTH, and so they have test server's better fitted for testing super fast connection's.
»speedtest.verizon.com/fios300/ |
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said by SteveLV702:I just got Cox Fiber installed and not getting even half of my speed... If I plug directly into my laptop and run a speedtest I do.. But once I through my network switch into the mix and run a speed test I get 80-150Mb/20Mb
So you're getting the correct speed when your gear is out of the picture? |
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What switch do you have? If it's some off the shelf consumer level crap I would suggest something along the lines of a cisco 3500/3750. I have an idle cisco 3500 gigabit switch that's just been collecting dust.
If you need firewall,nat,dhcpd , I would setup a mini-itx box w/pfsense or shorewall. |
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said by lilstone87:Your better off using Verizon's speedtest, being that they offer FTTH, and so they have test server's better fitted for testing super fast connection's.
»speedtest.verizon.com/fios300/
Thanks but that gave me just about the same results as speedtest.net
said by JustSomeGuy:So you're getting the correct speed when your gear is out of the picture?
Yes and no it gives me the correct download speed of 500Mb but it only gives me 50Mb upload which is still far from my 500Mb that suppose to be getting as I am suppose to be getting 500Mb Up and Down
said by nickphx:What switch do you have? If it's some off the shelf consumer level crap I would suggest something along the lines of a cisco 3500/3750. I have an idle cisco 3500 gigabit switch that's just been collecting dust.
If you need firewall,nat,dhcpd , I would setup a mini-itx box w/pfsense or shorewall.
You going to laugh at me but havent even gotten a switch yet.... so ya so far its a consumer level crap its a Apple TimeCapsule which before I got the Fiber cox told me all I needed was a 1gb router and so I contacted apple and they said that the time capsule was a 1gb router and so cox said was good enough....... so I went along with it.... |
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| Ah... Well there's your problem. While the network interface is 1gigabit, The processor on that time capsule can't handle the traffic. |
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| well that just sucks :'( |
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| Yeah... If cox offered fiber to my house I'd grab it too.. Instead of I just have a couple of cabinets on 2 gig-e lines from HE.net in PhoenixNAP.
The good news is it's not terribly difficult to find plenty of devices that will support that bandwidth. Based on what you want to use the network for I can provide some suggestions.. |
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| He's right your gonna need better equipment for that kind of speed, and better have a computer with 1gb card, and a good processor. |
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| reply to SteveLV702
500M is one hell of a connection. In my profession I do alot more with alot less.
You need some datacenter grade hardware to support that kind of speed... |
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said by lilstone87:He's right your gonna need better equipment for that kind of speed, and better have a computer with 1gb card, and a good processor.
I would hope they are not bad
15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display, 2.7Ghz Processor, 786GB Solid State Drive.
27" iMac 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz, 2GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 3TB Fusion Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5
Windows 8 Enterprise Edition Machine don't remember all the specs just know has a 128GB Solid State Drive then a 3TB 7200RPM Drive, like 32 or 48GB of RAM and 3.8Ghz i7 processor.
Then all my webservers and game servers have dual processors and atleast 16 - 32 GB of ram |
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| Ah.. If you're hosting web/games and personal stuff I would get a cisco 3550 or 3750 switch.
I would put the servers onto their own vlan and the personal machines on a separate vlan behind an Asus RT-N56U. Based on performance reviews the Asus could push 1gbit to wan and lan devices without issue. |
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| said by nickphx:Ah.. If you're hosting web/games and personal stuff I would get a cisco 3550 or 3750 switch.
I would put the servers onto their own vlan and the personal machines on a separate vlan behind an Asus RT-N56U. Based on performance reviews the Asus could push 1gbit to wan and lan devices without issue.
now question would machines using wifi be able to get speeds up to the 500/500 or they still restricted to the like 150/50
now see if I can afford this equipment me broke now after getting the fiber as very expensive they charge for construction luckily only a very very small portion of it  |
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| No.. Expecting such speeds over wifi would be silly. I don't think there's a current wifi standard that supports that much. |
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| said by nickphx:No.. Expecting such speeds over wifi would be silly. I don't think there's a current wifi standard that supports that much.
Didn't think so thought they where working on one though.. |
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| So what kind of equipment does cox have at your place, providing that supposed 500/500Mb connection? |
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| said by lilstone87:So what kind of equipment does cox have at your place, providing that supposed 500/500Mb connection?
Depends on if they do a sonet build or not. We have a few fiber connections with them, here is one on a sonet ring. |
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