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ADSL Routers

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by bryza, 2009/04/19.

  1. 2009/04/19
    bryza

    bryza Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am replacing some of my equipment.

    I am useing AOL with Netgear ADSL Firewall Router DG834G

    Connection Speed
    Downstream is 8192 kbps
    Upstream is 448 kbps

    I know nothing about routers and never realy messed around with them

    Can i buy a router that will increase my internet and also speed up say downloads.

    Which routers would you recommend for me.
     
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    wildfire

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    Nope, that's supplied by your ISP and (copper) line length limits their capabilities. Your current router and virtually all others are easily capable of maintaining the bandwidth you have.

    My personal suggestion is to stick with netgear but linksys or belkin are reasonable substitutes.

    Edit: Some clarity for others...

    Most routers are designed to handle traffic in the order of 100 Megabit or a Gigabit and even faster. Asking yours to cope with 8 Megabit is like asking a Porche to do 10 miles an hour on a clear motorway (highway). Internal network bandwidth can be increased by buying a better router but it's rare that external (internet) traffic would benefit.
     
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    PeteC

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    You are lucky to achieve that as no doubt you are on an 8 Mps service as I am. Many poor mortals pay for that, myself included, but as wildfire points out there are many other factors involved such as distance from exchange, quality of the wiring from exchange to home. I get about 5.5 Mps downstream .....

    Just bear in mind that servers only pump out data at a fixed rate - some are notoriously slow - Nero comes to mind where 50 kps is the norm. OTH I can usually get my full speed of 5.5 Mps from Microsoft, especially Technet or MSDN.

    Think of the internet as a motorway network - the M6 springs to mind around the junction with the M5 :) - sometimes travel is fast, other times slower than a snail wading through treacle. Traffic on the internet is the same.
     
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    bryza

    bryza Inactive Thread Starter

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    A few weeks ago i was trying to setup a file server and failed (thats another thread for later) and i printed out all the info for my router and thats the downstream that was printed.

    Thats a good point, the amount of times i have got stuck coming of the M5 onto the M6 absolute manic.

    Thanks again
     
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  6. 2009/04/20
    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    This can be misleading. That 100/1000 Mb is for the local network - everything on your side of the router. As soon as you hit your gateway (the modem) you are at the mercy of your ISP, the distant end, and everything in between.
     
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