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Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:22 pm
by Usman55
"in reality my download speed is 150 kbps and 10 up kbps"
I have the same speeds. When I hover over the WLAN network, it says it is 100MB/s.
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:40 pm
by Bogoh67
mandai wrote:the dsl downstream speed is supposed to be 1536 Kbps but it isnt
Why do you say that? If your modem reports this speed, then that is what your ISP is giving you.
Wireless G can go up to 54Mbps if you have a good signal, it doesn't sound like your router is the problem.
because i have two routers and one has sucky speeds and one doesnt have as sucky speeds
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:57 pm
by mandai
As long as your router's bandwidth is above what your ISP is giving you then it will not be the bottleneck; 1Mbps is equal to 1000Kbps.
Downloading a 10GB file over a 1.5Mbps connection would take about 15 hours.
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:16 pm
by Agust1337
Usman55 wrote:"in reality my download speed is 150 kbps and 10 up kbps"
I have the same speeds. When I hover over the WLAN network, it says it is 100MB/s.
100mb/s? it sounds like megabits, megabyte and megabits are not he same.
So in reality:
100 megabits = 12.5 megabytes
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:28 pm
by Bogoh67
mandai wrote:As long as your router's bandwidth is above what your ISP is giving you then it will not be the bottleneck; 1Mbps is equal to 1000Kbps.
Downloading a 10GB file over a 1.5Mbps connection would take about 15 hours.
well i dont have 1000KB/s i have 150 :( and its not to fun
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:49 pm
by mandai
You could always ask your ISP if they can offer more bandwidth, but you might need to pay.
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:20 am
by Bogoh67
mandai wrote:You could always ask your ISP if they can offer more bandwidth, but you might need to pay.
Now are you sure its my ISP that's offering me the slowness because I don't want to call them and find out that it's really my modem/dsl/router
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:05 am
by mandai
I don't see any reason to blame the router.
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:18 am
by Bogoh67
Well as I said before I have two routers both use the same(one at a time of course) one goes slow unlike the other
Re: Buyin' a router
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:10 am
by mandai
What link speed are you getting out of the slow router?