High Speed Internet
- Thread starter chittowntrader0
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This is my current Comcast speed. I pay for the 8mb service. The strange thing is that I have 3 routers that all limit the speed to 5-10mb once installed in the loop. Currently I have to just hook up straight to the cable modem to get these speeds.
If anyone knows why this happens I would really appreciate it. I spent hours with tech support from Comcast, Linksys, and Vonage trying to figure out the problem and they all gave up.
Quote from Dustin:
This is my current Comcast speed. I pay for the 8mb service. The strange thing is that I have 3 routers that all limit the speed to 5-10mb once installed in the loop. Currently I have to just hook up straight to the cable modem to get these speeds.
That speed result is 33 Mbps right? You are paying for only 8 Mbps? I am confused.
I think the Netgear unit has a 10 megabit top speed on the WAN side. I think the Linksys units are both 10 or 100 megabit units on the WAN side.
I have no manuals on these units.
You might check to see if there is any type of logging in the router. See if you can find a connect speed. Perhaps the router is connecting at the higher speed but internally limiting the output.
If the log gives no clues and there is no menu entry for the WAN-side speed setup I'd do a "hard" reset (sometimes a little button accessed through a small hole) of one of the Linksys units and then connect it to your cable modem. Ensure you copy down any settings you may have set up. Some routers "remember" the WAN speed and will always try to reconnect at that speed. The rest will wipe everything and perhaps the unit will sync up at the 33 mbps rate.
If it works at the 33/100 mbps rate then reset the other Linksys and try it. Ensure that the Netgear unit is always a downstream unit.
Jack
I have no manuals on these units.
You might check to see if there is any type of logging in the router. See if you can find a connect speed. Perhaps the router is connecting at the higher speed but internally limiting the output.
If the log gives no clues and there is no menu entry for the WAN-side speed setup I'd do a "hard" reset (sometimes a little button accessed through a small hole) of one of the Linksys units and then connect it to your cable modem. Ensure you copy down any settings you may have set up. Some routers "remember" the WAN speed and will always try to reconnect at that speed. The rest will wipe everything and perhaps the unit will sync up at the 33 mbps rate.
If it works at the 33/100 mbps rate then reset the other Linksys and try it. Ensure that the Netgear unit is always a downstream unit.
Jack
I believe that I have the typical COMCAST 6mb service.
I had a 4655 / 1001 result from the West Coast to NYC.
Also tested 7006 / 1427 from my home in California to a site that was less than 100 miles away:
Again, the real key is the "latency" that occurs across the United States (mps) and there isn't much you can do about that via broadband. ( 117ms vs 34ms as seen above in the ping test ).
I had a 4655 / 1001 result from the West Coast to NYC.
Also tested 7006 / 1427 from my home in California to a site that was less than 100 miles away:
Again, the real key is the "latency" that occurs across the United States (mps) and there isn't much you can do about that via broadband. ( 117ms vs 34ms as seen above in the ping test ).
Guys : What's happening then when there's a market event like the Fed announcement and the exchange volumes suddenly escalate? My trding platform where I have 100 symbols on the watchlist completely freezes up.
Is it the standard 6Mbs service from Comcast that's being overloaded by the sudden attempt to keep up with all the changing prices on the different stocks?
The trading computer I use exclusively to run the platform has a AMD 64x2 Dual Core processor and did have 1 gig of memory(last weekend upgraded to 4 gigs) and runs through a Linksys Cable Modem and Router.
Could it be Comcast limitting the amount of bandwidth to customers using alot of it as that article referred to earlier in this thread?
Any help appreciated.
Is it the standard 6Mbs service from Comcast that's being overloaded by the sudden attempt to keep up with all the changing prices on the different stocks?
The trading computer I use exclusively to run the platform has a AMD 64x2 Dual Core processor and did have 1 gig of memory(last weekend upgraded to 4 gigs) and runs through a Linksys Cable Modem and Router.
Could it be Comcast limitting the amount of bandwidth to customers using alot of it as that article referred to earlier in this thread?
Any help appreciated.
Its your data provider running out of steam not your internet connection (to prove this try tripling the number of stocks you observe during normal times for equivalent volumes).