Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
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Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 12:11 PM
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After setting it up I noticed my FTTC speed was no higher than 20Mbps (it had previously been 32), so I assumed that the power cut that had fried the previous router had also affected the line. However when the replacement Netgear arrived, I found that my BB speed was indeed 32...using the Netgear.
If I swopped it back for the US Robotics, I only got 20Mbps.
Can anyone shed any light on why this is? I flashed the US Robotics to the latest firmware, reset to factory defaults and reconfigured it, but to no avail. It's not really a problem as it was only £15, but I'd like to know why there's such a difference in speed between the two routers. It seems to be primarily suited as a cable router, and the specifications for the router say max bandwidth 200Mbps so I can't see where the problem is.
- Curious Dave
You know what a turtle is? Same thing.
Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 12:39 PM
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Quote from here http://www.tomsguide.com/us/cheap-router-roundup,review-754-9.html
Quote The USR 8004 from U.S. Robotics is a vanilla router with little in the way of bells and whistles and even less in the way of performance
Not many ( if any! ) home routers would be capable of routing 200Mbps, most would probably be between the 50 and 100 mark.
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Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 12:58 PM
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Quote ultra-fast 10/100 switched LAN ports capable of speeds of 200 Mbps
It's the "add together the up and down speed" marketing hype.
Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 1:16 PM
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Maximum Bandwidth:
Full-duplex: 200 Mbps (for 100BASE-TX), 20 Mbps (for 10BASE-T)
Half-duplex: 100 Mbps (for 100BASE-TX), 10 Mbps (for 10BASE-T)
From here:
http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-wired-product.asp?prod=net-8004&page=specs&loc=unkg
Plus I think that TomsHardware review is out of date (2006). The router I've got does support UPNP, because whenever I connected anything to wireless, the damn thing kept adding port-forwarding entries until I turned if off!
You know what a turtle is? Same thing.
Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 1:51 PM
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Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 2:32 PM
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I know what routers do, I just didn't know how they did it. So it's physical processing power that determines how fast it can route traffic then?
I have seen one before (I bought one for a friend who had cable about 5 years ago), but obviously that was when cable speeds rarely exceeded 10Mbps, but now we're into the realms of 32/80 Mbps fibre it no longer cuts the mustard! I did wonder why it was by far the cheapest one in the shop!
Well it'll do fine whenever I need a temporary spare, or to check that a fault isn't router-based, and £15 isn't a bad price to pay for something that's basically going to live in a drawer 90% of the time.
You know what a turtle is? Same thing.
Re: Difference in FTTC speed between two makes of Router
10-07-2012 3:20 PM
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Quote So it's physical processing power that determines how fast it can route traffic then?
To some extent, yes. When its routing between WAN and LAN then there is a need, at least, to process each packet to translate public WAN IP addresses to/from private IP's i.e NAT , as well as determining where/if to route incoming packets on the WAN.
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