Over the years...I kept hearing about the alleged speed increases that cable had been making...but I wasn't seeing it.
Finally, I figured out that it was my Linksys router that was the bottleneck. Turning features off on it helped (namely wondershaper and WiFi) a little bit, and directing QoS sensitive devices to my other (same model) Linksys router. Enough that I put off upgrading it for a couple more years longer than I should've. Including where I had purchased a new Buffalo router, and put it on a shelf for over a year, before finally removing the shrink wrap and replacing the Linksys. (When it started losing its mind now and then....) Current router is running dd-wrt and the main thing I do is use QoS. Guess its because from day one (of Cable Internet service), I had setup a Linux box as my home router (back when 3.5" floppy drives existed and people did Linux routers that way)....so I was already running bind and dhcp and such, and continued to do so even while I briefly ran various routers with their stock software. In the beginning, I didn't run dhcp...paranoid I guess. Later when I had to...it was set to only do reserved IPs. But, now I do have a set of dynamic.....because more and more stuff is showing up without the MAC address printed anywhere. Plus with my RADIUS setup, each device is a separate user..... On 04/19/2012 09:56 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > When I switched to Verizon FiOS I was disappointed with the bandwidth > I was getting. It turned out my little Linksys router was the > bottleneck. I removed it and found the box provided by FiOS was fast > enough to keep up with the full bandwidth I was paying for (which > makes sense!) > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
