Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Matt Giwer wrote:
>>Apoligies.

>>Here is my problem and this is to save me $80. My cable ISP sneakily
>>increased by max rate from about 220 kb/s to 550 kb/s. Most sources will
>>not transmit anything like that fast but those that do lock up my five
>>year old Linksys $80 cable router so I have to reboot the router.

> Sorry I cannot help, but most people would probably be glad if their ISP
> increased the max data rate.

They upgraded so that only the last mile is copper and gave the internet a
share of the increased bandwidth.

> Mine increased the max data rate from 15 Megabit/second to 20 Megabit/second
> for downloads, and from 2 Megabit/second to 5 Megabit/second uploading.
> (Verizon FiOS fibre optic to the home service.) Fortunately the D-Link
> DI-624 router could handle that, as could the 100 Megabit NIC it connects to
> on my main machine.

Thanks. Worst case a new D-Link rather than replace a Linksys.

> Is it likely that a cable router would be that slow? I would have thought
> they would go at least 10 megabit/sec because that is the slowest ethernet
> speed I know of.

I meant kB/sec.

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