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wesleys_dad

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Im currently with brighthouse for tv and internet..they are advertising 1k speeds for 10$ more monthly...I have their modem and a router wired to our 3 computers and my question is will i recieve 1k speeds with 2 of the 3 computers equipped with 10/100/1000 on board lan cards...or will my router cut down the speed to 10/100...Im not sure if the router is capable of these speeds...they say they dont have to come to the house to install anything different so im assuming the modem can handle those speeds but im not sure if the router has to be changed to accomodate the increased speeds...
Im currently on road runner high speed which is 750kbs and the increased speed is supppose to be 1k...
Some of my neighbors have said they dont see any increase but after looking at their systems they are running 10/100 nic cards.....
thanks for any advice guys....
 
Let's say you do get up to 1000Kbps.

10/100 = 10Mbps/100Mbps = 10,000Kbps/100,000Kbps

Your NIC/router speed is not an issue here.
 
Holy cow. They must use 1,000K to look like a bigger number to sway unknowing customers... Meh, must be a new tactic...


But seriously 1 meg download isn't much at all. I think for like $70 or $80/month (no idea what you pay for your less than 1 meg right now) ATT gives you like 6 meg download... 6,000K.
 
Most residential routers using stock firmwares can route about 20mbit per second. Your equipment will be fine with 1mbit.

Just for comparison, I pay $54.99 for 10 mbit. The 1 mbit plan is $34.99 so not a difficult choice. They do also have a 7mbit plan for $44.99.
 
Karlos said:
Most residential routers using stock firmwares can route about 20mbit per second. Your equipment will be fine with 1mbit.

Just for comparison, I pay $54.99 for 10 mbit. The 1 mbit plan is $34.99 so not a difficult choice. They do also have a 7mbit plan for $44.99.
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Who are you with???
 
TechieSooner said:
Who are you with???
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I'm with Rogers cable in Canada. I've been around the same amount for the last 10 years or so. They started at 2mbit back in the @Home days and increase it by a couple mbit every 2 years or so. Really can't complain :D


YeOldeStonecat said:
Remove any doubt....quickly and easily see what "most" home grade routers will do for benchmarks..
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_chart/Itemid,189/
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I guess my information is a little out of date, which makes sense because the original WRT54G is exactly 20mbit and that's what I had when I researched it. I'm surprised the D-Link routers are so high on the list though.
 
Karlos said:
Most residential routers using stock firmwares can route about 20mbit per second. Your equipment will be fine with 1mbit.

Just for comparison, I pay $54.99 for 10 mbit. The 1 mbit plan is $34.99 so not a difficult choice. They do also have a 7mbit plan for $44.99.
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Very nice. They really WANT you to be on 10mb at the difference in those prices :p

Embarq is pretty nice as well, but more spaced out ($25 for 1.5mb, $30 for 3mb, $40 for 5mb, $55 for 10mb)
 
$55 for 10mb would be great. I think it's about that much and I'm only getting about 3Meg down for cable (Cox/Suddenlink)
 
Ya, wish I could afford it right now. We JUST got those plans available to us (have been stuck on 512/128 for the past ~10yrs since we were on the fringe of service), but right now I have to settle for the 1.5mb service because of the economy.

Nice thing is that Embarq has great service around here so you get what you pay for.
 
Grentz said:
Thats pretty unheard of these days, consider yourself extremely lucky ;)
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I absolutely do, but here's the kicker. If I remove my router, the same exact 6mb connection only yields 2mb up and down. I don't get it
 
Captain Colonoscopy said:
when I put in my proxy filter and do a speed test I get like 12MB/s down . . . . . odd . . . . :D
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That reminds me of the message you get when you try to run a speed test from DSLReports on your Blackberry "Blackberry uses proxy servers to filter out useless data. The speed test relies on useless data to work correctly." :p (Or something to that effect).
 
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