On 9/15/05, Lawrence Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good afternoon, all.
Today I had my service swapped over from cable to DSL. When I hit Speakeasy's speed test after the new service was setup however I got a bit of a shock. My download speed was clocking in at only 800kbps ( upload is about 650 ). I was a bit concerned and so I reconnected my cable modem and tried again...and got very similar results ( 780 down and 500 up ).
I disconnected my Linksys Firewall Router ( BESFX41 ) and went directly against the modems. This looked much better. My upload didn't change in either case but my download for both went up over 3k. I have a standard Linksys Router ( BEFSR41 ) here also which I hooked up. This had almost no impact on the speeds, so it's definetly something with the FIrewall Router.
I went thru the admin menu of the troublesome equipment and I can't find anything that might put this thing into half duplex mode or otherwise cripple it's performance. I have no logging enabled on the router and no special filters running. I double-checked Linksys site and am running the most current firmware ( dated 2004 ) and Google has not turned up any leads. I have been using this unit for the last 2+ years and to be honest with you it has been a LONG time since I've done a speed test, probably when I first got everything networked up, so I couldn't say when it may have done this to me. I know I could just put in the non-firewall in place for now but I really don't want to give up the firewall.
Any ideas / suggestions / experience?
-L
When my linksys was finally dying, after 3+ years of constant service, it was doing much the same... speed seemed to wind-down, and when I hooked the ports up directly to system (including the wan port) they were indeed all linking at half-duplex, save, I think, port 1. I ended up retiring it. I went the geeky route with a small multi-homed debian box and a WAP to keep the wireless, but my speed with comcast jumped up again, then higher when I moved to Speakeasy...
just my experience
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