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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:45:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Wireless something?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495555</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, we have a dsl modem that has wireless. However, the modem is in the house and we need the signal in the office about 150 feet away. The house is wrapped in the foil wrapping, so the signal doesn't really get out of the house. We need something that can connect with an ethernet cable to the modem (we'll drill a hole in the house wall) and be outside under the eaves of the house (to protect it) and give a wireless signal to the office.

What the heck do I call this? I've looked at wireless switches, repeaters, etc, but they do the wireless the other way.
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 20:51:44</pubDate>
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<title>[Other] VPN</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20485564</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello, I am currently experiencing some issues and they may be normal but I need to ask. I am trying to VPN to my work and I get connected but everything is extremely slow. I was with Insight and now Comcast. And it seems to have become worse since the change. My speed test results for download go from 10meg to 1meg when connected in VPN. Is that normal?
I have one employee that connects and can't get the applications to load at all. Any suggestions, ideas or explanations would be greatly appreciated.
Bob]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-15 05:52:12</pubDate>
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<title>Hub vs Switch</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496915</link>
<description><![CDATA[Putting costs totally out of the picture, is there anything an Ethernet hub can do that an unmanaged switch cannot do just as well (or even better)? From what I know, I believe that there will never be a situation where a hub is a better choice (again, costs are ignored), but I would appreciate some confirmation.   ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-17 05:34:07</pubDate>
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<title>Speed Test</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20490785</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a site where I can test my 50Mbs/50Mbs internet connection? 

speedtest.net only goes up to 20Mbs for download and upload is 10Mbs. 

This site tests my download speed properly but not upload. I think my upload speed is too fast.
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Thanks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 00:11:17</pubDate>
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<title>Traffic seems slow on Gbit</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420462</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello again folks,  I ended up buying the Linksys SD2008 Gbit switch.  Installed just great with no trouble.
I'm concerned with the actual throughput that I see.
Both nics show auto negotiation and in Task Manager "networking" tab the Link speed shows 1Gbps for each.  When transferring an encoded .mkv file of 12GB size it rarely gets over 25MB/sec and usually sits between 10-15MB/sec.  When I transfer a ton of smaller files it gets up to 40MB/sec but usually sits between 10-30MB/sec.  These are both gbit onboard nics from 2 new Asus boards.  Any bottle necks here or is this acceptable for gbit lan transfers.  It's certainly faster than it was through my 100Mbit router I used before but still just seems sluggish.  Measurements were taken via DUMeter installed on both machines.  Any suggestions?
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<pubDate>2008-05-02 10:19:55</pubDate>
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<title>udp flood logs in belkin router</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20489619</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi 
I was just wondring if I could stop these dam udp errors i keep getting in my router about **udp flood** it's happening when i join gaming servers resulting my packet flow to be blocked out with some mini freeze ups i think i have found the problem its to do with nat security on the router 

here are the settings

Connection policy:
Fragmentation half-open wait:
TCP Syn wait:
TCP FIN wait:
TCP connection idle timeout:
UDP session idle timeout:
H.323 data channel idle timeout:

Dos Detect Criteria:
total incomplete tcp/udp sessions high:
total incomplete tcp/udp sessions low:
incomplete tcp/udp sessions (per min) high:
incomplete tcp/udp sessions (per min) low:
max incomplete tcp/udp sessions number from same host:
incomplete tcp/udp sessions detect sensitive time period:
max half-open fragmentation packet number from same host:
half-open fragmentation detect sensitive time period:
flooding cracker block time:

what would i have to change in order to stop the freeze ups from happening the game use's udp mostly.

cheers Alan. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-15 20:21:11</pubDate>
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<title>3Mb when connecting to SF and 10mb to NYC- why?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20496226</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am in the Chelsea district of NYC and all internet providers have the same result where anything outside of new york takes about double the time to access. 

any thoughts?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 23:27:02</pubDate>
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<title>[XP] problem seeing a shared directory, need help or sugguestion</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20492654</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a XP pro machine that needs to having a sharing directory for everyone on a LAN. This machine is a non domain computer. everyone else is on a domain.

i tried to see it's shared but it won't allow me unless I disabled that machine's firewall then it allows me to see the shared folder. I ensured within the firewall the exception is checked on for the File and Printer setting and port number 137, 138, 139, and most importantly 445 is open.

what other ports do I need to be open to make this work correctly??]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 11:46:30</pubDate>
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<title>[XP] Uninformed seeking packet loss assistance</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20491475</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi , I'm in desperate need of some help from someone that knows more than I do, which is probably 99% of this board  :p

 XP Home edition
 Frontier Communications
 DSL - Always on
 Speedstream 6520 it's a modem/router all-in-one
 No firewalls active for testing - router or otherwise
 I don't have another modem to check currently.
 I've powercycled , cleaned out my computer for viruses/spyware, the basic troubleshooting I knew how to do.

Ok, my situation is , I spend alot of time playing online games such as Warcraft 3 and Counterstrike and using the Ventrilo VOiP program. Lately(past 3 weeks) I've been getting high packet loss 10-15% which makes using these programs unbearable. My ISP at first said there was a problem on their end and told me it has since been resolved, however the packet loss/lag spikes are still there. They happen every minute or two for hours then sometimes an hour will go by with no lag at all. I'm basically hoping somebody  can pinpoint where the packet loss is coming from and if it is in fact still my ISP what I should say to them. My tracert's and PingPlotter's show packet loss across almost every hop.

   PingPlotter to my World of Warcraft server, first hop is skipped 

  

        
                                                         Thanks in advance for any advice you can give, I can post additional tests or anything else that could be helpful.       :)]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 06:50:07</pubDate>
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<title>When a Router (non-uplink ports) work and a Switch doesnt</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20491187</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ok guys, I PROMISE I tried looking this one up, but I couldn't see anything; so I'm gonna stick my head out there and hope I don't end up being told 'duh' at the end of this...

Anyway, here's my problem:

I currently have a lovely little network running in my house... Cable runs to the modem, from there to my router, and from there either directly to a room, or to another switch that then runs to other rooms.

Now, in one of my rooms, I want to expand the number of devices connected to the network, so I plug in a DGS-2205, and fire up my pc/NAS/Print server, and nada.  I called tech support and they couldn't figure it out either (whats new).

So seeing if it was the hardware or just me, I took one of my trusty old linksys ROUTERS, and plugged THAT in instead, using ONLY the Switch ports (uplink is it's own connection on the BEFSX41).

Now Tech support was really scratching it's head, so they took the switch back as an RMA.  I received a new one, and same story - Router works, Switch doesn't.  I even went out and purchased a crossover cable to rule that out as well.  

I've tried looking online, but I see nothing that helps.  I did some of my due-diligence by trying to research, and RTFM; even called D-Link and stumped them.  

Any words of wisdom for someone who cant get a damn PNP device to work?!?!?  
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If it was easy, everyone would do it]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-05-16 02:34:31</pubDate>
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