Jeff,
Thanks...That is good. Got Tharin's and your reply to his.
Still thinking......
Best,
Duncan
At 12:01 01/14/2008 -0800, you wrote:
Yes, it is setup for full duplex...100mbps. See the answer to Tharin Olsen
for other details, Thanks for the suggestion, Duncan.
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Possible router faliure
Jeff,
You have a much more complex LAN than I. Not sure I can help much. I am
troubleshooting an old router, too BTW..... :)
Anyway, I would start by making certain that both your PC and laptop nic
cards are working properly. Like are they both set for 100mbps full duplex?
Can they talk to each other using a cross-over cat5e cable (w/o a hub or
switch)?
Then, pick a switch/router and see if they still talk. If so, slowly keep
building until a problem is found. That should be where your problem is.
If the setup has been static (installed) for some time, perhaps one or
more cable connections has gotten dirty, intermittent, flakey, bad.
Perhaps your cable modem, router, access point may need a f/w upgrade.
Just a thought, cuz I'm doing this now with my old router...... :)
Sorry, can not speak to the wireless side. I do not do any wireless.
Best,
Duncan
At 18:03 01/13/2008 -0800, you wrote:
Hi folks,
I don't ask much of the list very often but I'm up against it now. I am
running all Linksys equipment, BEFCU10 cable modem, BEFSx41 hardware
firewall router, and a WRT54G wireless router setup as an access point
off the wired router.
PC is custom with Aopen m/b, 1GB Corsair dual channel RAM. Athlon 2600+
CPU, 120 and 250GB Seagate Harddrives, Nvidia FX5500, 256MB video,
Liteon DVD burner, and Viewsonic E70f+ monitor.
My up and download speeds have slowed to near dial-up proportions,
consistently. For example, I start a download of something, from
anywhere, and get an immediate burst of speed, 4,5, or 6MB, and it
immediately begins to slow to 1-300K, some times less!
I have checked my speeds with Broadband, DSL, and SpeedTest. All give
the same results in the 2-300K area downloading. I have called Comcast
regarding this and all they came up with was to disconnect everything
and connect directly to the modem. They claimed that their equipment
indicated that I was getting 4-5+MB consistently and uploads in the 350K
vicinity. I did connect directly to the modem and, for once, Comcast was
telling the truth.
This all started sometime after I had installed the wireless router. We
had a defective Netgear which it replaced. I have removed the wireless
completely and it is still slow.
I have removed the wired router, reset it, and tried a new setup. No luck.
Removed wired router and tried to set up wireless as primary. I had no
luck with this as it does not recognize the wireless router. I have no
idea why.
When all routers are connected the connected PC and laptop work
perfectly, except very, very slow. My email is so slow downloading that
it occasionally times out. Please yell if you need some more info.
I am sending this to two lists to warn those of you that are on both.
Sorry for the long post, but can anyone help?
Jeff
