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Goraz
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 Posted: 02/02/04 - 14:17 Post subject: Wireless Router / Cable Modem Gateway ... Hepl!!!
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To make a long story short, the 3rd computer in the house is hooked up via wireless because of the distance from the cable modem, wiring through walls etc... (i.e- pain in the ass)
Comcast threw in this Netgear Wireless Cable Modem Gateway Model CG814WG
My other 2 computers are hooked up still via a hard wire on this cable modem gateway. So its serves as a cable modem, a router system and a wireless connection.
Question is.... does anyone know if there is a different bandwidth cap on this thing? For some reason, I'm downloading off of fileplanet via the private servers substainally slower than I used to be. I don't think its the traffic either @ fileplanet because I've downloaded several files and results in the same speed.
......just speculating. I could be wrong and it is fileplanet. =\
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Smin
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 14:24 Post subject:
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Unless i'm mistaken, the DL rate you are getting is prob 54MBs assuming it's a 801.11g wireless router and card. If it's anything older than a 801.11g then you are prob getting slower speeds.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 15:12 Post subject:
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That is a 802.11g router, so it should be running at 54 Mb/sec. Although even 802.11b is 11 Mb/sec, which I'm sure is faster than your cable connection which is probably no more than 1.5 Mb/sec.
Go to http://www.dslreports.com, and use their bandwidth tools - first do the "tweak test" to make sure your tcp windows etc are set appropriately, then do the throughput test and see what you get.
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Goraz
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Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 15:36 Post subject:
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Receive Window (RWIN): 64240
Window Scaling: off
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: OFF
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1460
TTL:
(less any hops behind firewall)
129
TTL remaining: 115
How do you teak your RWIN settings? in windows XP
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sinrakin
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 15:41 Post subject:
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64240 looks pretty good for a receive window I think. It's a registry setting - they've got a program called Dr. TCP or something on the site you can download to set it, but I think that's good; the tweak test should tell you if it thinks it needs to be changed. So what did your throughput come out as? If it's within 10% or so of your cable co's advertised speed you're in pretty good shape. They have a separate throughput test that's pretty accurate.
I looked up that router - didn't see any mention of badwidth limiting in it.
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Goraz
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 15:49 Post subject:
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Everything seemed to be OK in terms of the test. The only optional change they said was changing the RWIN. Thanks for your help though Sin. It must have been fileplanet. But I did fail to mention one thing, my download speed does reduce if its a larger file. for instance, if I'm downloading a 200 MB file, it will start downloading at roughly 283 K / sec and gradually level out to 45 K / sec. =\
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gotissues68
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 18:42 Post subject:
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You're having too many collisions somewhere on the network. If the hard wired boxen are dl'ing fine but the wireless is going dog ass slow, then you've got issues with the distance or RF causing packet loss to the wireless boxen.
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Owyyn
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 18:43 Post subject:
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I think with those wireless routers, the farther the computer is away from it, the slower it goes.
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Occulis
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Posted: 02/02/04 - 19:49 Post subject:
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If I recall correctly, file planet is a piece of shit.
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