My router is capping my internet speed

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:52 pm

I'll stick with my sucky DSL for now.

Speaking of WRT54... I had one of those way back when, could be rev 5 or 3. Don't remember.

Read a couple forums. The consensus seem to be get Tomato or other custom firmware on there and try to tweak it so you can minimize the CPU load, which will get your throughput up. And Tomato seem to have a CPU meter. You may also want to slap an external cooling fan on it.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:09 am

FishPants wrote:Any of you guys still running WRT54G series routers should replace them ASAP. The reason you're getting crappy throughput rates on that thing:

1. Just because it says it's 100mb port doesn't mean the ASIC supporting it can run that speed.
2. Your router is easily pwned, who knows maybe every time you plug it in you've become part of a botnet and that's killing some of your bandwidth by participating in DDOS attacks?
3. It's an old piece of crap, find one that's readily DD-WRT compatible (or has good stock firmware). My old Netgear WNDR3700 routers were champs on stock firmware (DD-WRT was mediocre on it).

i have a WRT54GL with Tomato. based on this conversation, i decided to see for myself and ... the speeds i'm getting are 2x what i thought they were!

(not that i ever need 60Mbps down... i'd gladly pay less for slower speeds if i could, but Comcast doesn't make that possible.)

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:15 pm

I have to pay extra to Time Warner just to get that.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:20 pm

Waaaaa! I can't watch HD movies on three TVs and download a 25 GB game from STEAM in less than 2 hours. Waaa!

The ISP is finally getting hammered enough by residents that they're considering putting "high speed" lines in. But only if they get enough official requests and it's only in a certain part of the town. Of course we're not in that part of town, but I'm submitting a form anyway.

Hamsterball_Z · Post by **Hamsterball_Z** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:44 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Read the cnet reviews?

SmallNetBuilder.com is the place to go for router reviews.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:23 pm

Say what you will about Comcast...

We do use the Arris gateway (modem/router all-in-one) that they provide.

RLMullen · Post by **RLMullen** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:58 pm

FishPants wrote: I'm currently running a Fortigate 60D at home for the intrusion prevention stuff (Was doing a PoC for a work related project and got to keep it). Unfortunately they are about $500 unbundled, and around $1000 with a year of support and subscriptions. If you've got the money they are worth every cent of it for the added protection, but more importantly they are rock solid.

Did you seriously just recommend a $500 router for home use, and then proceed to suggest spending an additional $500/yr for "support"?? What the fuck are intruders doing to your home network to justify that kind of expense?

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:09 pm

Ok, after putting random numbers in the speedtest url I feels slightly less 3rd world.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:29 pm

Loving that upload speed-

That's from work.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:01 pm

Dont know why my speedtest ping is so slow.

Whats kinda interesting is Ive always gotten 5 megs more than I pay for. Im paying for 60 and get this..

So Im getting more extra than a lot of others pay for alone.

Have you guys seen Google's pricing plan? Its F'n amazing.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:16 pm

oh yeah, workplace results! how bizzzzarrrre:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:07 pm

I never knew Belkin owned Linksys.

Oh I ended up deciding on the ASUS RT-N56U n600. So far it rocks. Love'n it.

Hamsterball_Z · Post by **Hamsterball_Z** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:15 pm

Cisco sold them to Belkin a year or two ago.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:49 am

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:02 am

Comcast doesn't suck (when it comes to internet speeds).

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:45 am

No, not horrible. I'm happy with my speed. In fact, the only problem I have with my WRT54G is that it sometimes chokes when I have multiple connections at once.

RLMullen · Post by **RLMullen** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:04 am

Not bad for DSL, but worse than 61% of the US.

The damned cable company won't pull a cable 200 yards down the road into our small neighborhood.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:15 am

Blackhawk wrote:I'm happy with my speed.

How could you not be? You're surfing the internet at an astonishing 12 SmooveBs!!!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:42 am

RunningMn9 wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:I'm happy with my speed.
How could you not be? You're surfing the internet at an astonishing 12 SmooveBs!!!

I know. I downloaded three SmooveBs just last night. I hear he makes for a great antivirus.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:44 am

In true Grandpa Simpson style, I have mailed a letter to my ISP (as they require) regarding higher speeds. I even included a picture of the speed test to let them know I don't appreciate what they're currently offering.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:56 am

Smoove_B wrote:

In true Grandpa Simpson style, I have mailed a letter to my ISP (as they require) regarding higher speeds. I even included a picture of the speed test to let them know I don't appreciate what they're currently offering.

Include a copy of all of our speed tests, and just end the letter with a clean white page with the letters "WTF?" on it.

5 Mbps down in 2015 should be reasonable cause to riot.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:33 am

This is my DSL speed:

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:42 pm

Cable company called and gave me an unofficial estimate that it would cost ~$10,000 to connect me to their network, giving me access to 35 Mbps.

I'm actually considering it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:03 pm

They were about 1/4 a mile from me years ago. They told all of us residents that if we signed an agreement with them together and we each paid so much..i think it was $1000 ...that they would run it on up to us. None of us bit. A year later they ran it themselves and we got free installs for joining for nothing at that time

Post by **FishPants** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:01 pm

RLMullen wrote:
FishPants wrote: I'm currently running a Fortigate 60D at home for the intrusion prevention stuff (Was doing a PoC for a work related project and got to keep it). Unfortunately they are about $500 unbundled, and around $1000 with a year of support and subscriptions. If you've got the money they are worth every cent of it for the added protection, but more importantly they are rock solid.
Did you seriously just recommend a $500 router for home use, and then proceed to suggest spending an additional $500/yr for "support"?? What the fuck are intruders doing to your home network to justify that kind of expense?

I recommended it for anyone that has the money. It doesn't crash, it intercepts malware, has intrusion prevention, acts as a vpn concentrator and end point, scans emails for malicious attachments and also does content filtering among many other things. It's really quite nice.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:09 pm

FishPants wrote:
RLMullen wrote:
FishPants wrote: I'm currently running a Fortigate 60D at home for the intrusion prevention stuff (Was doing a PoC for a work related project and got to keep it). Unfortunately they are about $500 unbundled, and around $1000 with a year of support and subscriptions. If you've got the money they are worth every cent of it for the added protection, but more importantly they are rock solid.
Did you seriously just recommend a $500 router for home use, and then proceed to suggest spending an additional $500/yr for "support"?? What the fuck are intruders doing to your home network to justify that kind of expense?
I recommended it for anyone that has the money. It doesn't crash, it intercepts malware, has intrusion prevention, acts as a vpn concentrator and end point, scans emails for malicious attachments and also does content filtering among many other things. It's really quite nice.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:48 am

I was getting about 7mbps/1.5mbps at home and decided to call Comcast to see what was up. They told me the tier I was paying for provided 6-8mbps. I told them a competitor could give me 55mbps for the same price (~$60, no bundle). They gave me the loyalty number and they were able to bump me up to 50mbps, lower the price, and switch out my modem with a docsis 3.0 modem.

This is what I get now wireless-

I'll take it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:12 pm

Having a little problem today. Its not router related just ISP.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:42 pm

Smoove would kill for those speeds!

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:33 pm

I should document where I am today (and where I'll be in a month).
2/24/2015

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:20 pm

Just over 1/2 Smoove. Slower than the traffic jam on Diversey, Elston and Fullerton.

Bring on the Obamanet, because my ISP is already stuck in neutral gear for the internet.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:59 pm

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:05 am

Daehawk wrote:

Ugh, that ping. That has a greater affect on online play than bandwidth.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:40 am

Is a 34ms ping really all that bad?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:58 am

Dont know. never really get any better.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:00 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Is a 34ms ping really all that bad?

Not in the Philippines.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:22 pm

Just got one of these. It is pretty nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhJNYn6cwA

MindToyGames · Post by **MindToyGames** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:52 pm

My wired Ethernet connection, not too bad I think. Wireless is roughly half this amount on the download side, and about the same on the upload side, which is a little weird.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:50 pm

Pings are usually lower around 9 or 10ms. Upload is usually better as well. Still good enough.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:03 pm

Alefroth wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:Is a 34ms ping really all that bad?
Not in the Philippines.

Most sources I've read call anything sub-100 'good enough' for multiplayer gaming, with sub-75 being ideal. 34 seems pretty damned great - I can't think of much where a few milliseconds less would matter. 34 is already one tenth of the blink of an eye.