I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is about 156Mbps (measured by http://www.speedtest.net), which seems to be what to expect.
Now, having a device provided by the ISP to act as router seems to be good for people who trust both the ISP and the manufacturer. (Please comment if I'm being too paranoid.) So, I setup the router to work in bridge mode and connected one of the 4 lan ports to the Wan port of a secondary router TP-link (Archer C1200, Wireless dual band gigabit). It is supposed to comply with 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz and 802.11a/n/ac 5GHz. Not that this matters per se, as I disabled the WiFi. The point is: I connected the computers to the lan ports of my secondary router (with original firmware, but I intended to install ddwrt), and the setup works, except that the speed never reaches 100Mbps. Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. Or maybe the primary router is thottling speed when in bridge mode? Is this possible at all? (And if so, what could be the purpose of such measure? *spooky*) Someone has a similar setup? Any experience with that (TP-link) router? Thanks, Jorge Almeida
