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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:37 PM

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.

Single question from experience. Is this an old router problem or does it need
replacing? No remote diagnostics expected rather has anyone found this problem
or has anyone found it works even with ridiculous 550 rate?

I have no connection with any vendor or ISP. The ISP rate comes from
Time-Warner aka Roadrunner in Tampa. The rate increased with no change in price.

In any event I am looking for experience on it being a defective router or
routers are not this fast and always choke or what.

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#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:37 PM

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.

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.

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.

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:38 PM

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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