micken Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Hi, I've recently upgraded my broadband connection to 10MB on a cable modem and installed a router with both ethernet and wireless connections. I've cloned the gateway pc to the router and notice the following performance differences.1. With the gateway pc connected to the modem and with no router and other pc's connected the download and upload speeds are as I would expect, using a variety of measures.2. With the router (acting as gateway) connected to the modem and with the single (previously gateway) pc connected to it but with no other pc's connected and using the same tests as in 1. above I get download speeds of around 25% of 1. above but upload speeds are only slightly less than 1. above.Does anyone have any ideas or links for information on this. I've been searching around but I'm not coming up with any answers.The router is a Linksys wrt54gs, it was a doddle to set up and in all other respects I'm perfectly happy with it.RegardsMick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 In step 2 is the gateway pc you connected to the router still acting as a router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Hi cozofdeath and thanks for your reply. The pc in 2. is simply connected directly to the router by ethernet cable on port 1, another ethernet cable on port 2 takes the connection to a switched hub that serves the rest of the house (2 desktops). What I might do just out of interest when I've got all my kids at home is do a simultaneous speed test from alll three desktops and a wifi laptop and see what results we get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted June 27, 2006 Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 I'm interested to see if the computers are going through the PC you had set up as a gateway, and then through the router. Did you change your IP Scheme when you added the router? When you put the router in place, the gateway your computers use should change to the inside IP Address of your router. It should not stay at the PC you had set up as a gateway. Does that make any sense to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted June 27, 2006 Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 I'm not the best at networking but if you wanted to keep the gateway I believe you would have to setup routing and remote access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 Hi homecomputeraid. System goes like this: 10MB internet to cable modem, this goes to router via cat5 cable, router then goes to 3 desktops via cat5 (one desktop was previously gateway, but not now), router sends wifi signal too.Currently 4MB+ download and 200KB+ upload on each of the desktops and on a single wifi laptop.Thanks cozofdeath bit by bit (no pun) I'm getting the speeds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Did hard reset of WRT54GS v.5 after firmware upgrade to v.1.50.8 then full power cycle for modem, router and pc. Tested the speed by downloading SP2 whilst running a trial version of Network Magic Premium with Speed Meter Pro that allowed me to monitor the WAN and LAN speeds. Got a throughput of 9.98mbps on the WAN according to Speed Meter Pro. The Windows download information settled on 1.16MB/s. All wired LAN connections are 100Mbps and the wireless connection is 54Mbps. Using Speakeasy speed tests to NY concurrently on two wired desktops gives Download speeds of 6+Mbps and Upload speeds of 470+kbps on both machines. Looks like this has settled the issue of my 10meg connection being effectively routed through the WRT54GS. I can recommend Network Magic for checking and managing your home network. There's a 30 day trial of the Premium edition which drops to a Basic freebie afterwards. I have reservations about the purchase of the Premium version being on an annual subscription basis, however it's not that expensive considering the ease of use of the software and it's GUI. I'll see what the freebie leaves me with after the trial period. Details here http://www.networkmagic.com/ Thanks for all the helpful advice and I hope that the comments I've added will assist others in getting the best out of this router. From my reading I know it's a mixed bag of tricks and that there's a certain love / hate relationship with the later models like mine. Wonder if I'll be attracted to 3rd party firmware? For the moment though .... if it ain't broke ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks for the update Micken. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted July 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks for the update Micken. :)You're welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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