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Bottleneck: Router can be a reason?

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Louis Cyphre

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I have a broadband cable and a 4-node SMC Barricade router. What's been so frustrating with the setup is the bottleneck issue. The router gets jammed even when I download pdf files sometimes, which makes downloading files of a considerable size like multimedia formats practically impossible. Is this something that can be improved by switching to a different router? Also, can DSL be better than cable in that regard? Feedbacks would be appreciated very much.

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It sounds to me like you are just being limited by your bandwidth. If you're downloading a large file, your comptuer will use as much bandwidth as it can. Anything else you want to do (browsing, downloading other files, etc.) is going to lag because of it. I don't think this is a problem with your router.

That is unless I misunderstood the original question...
 
Thank you for your insight very much, Crashsector. So, the only way I can stay away from constantly having to restart the router would be to download one file at a time, I take it. :(
 
Well I don't entirely understand your situation. Maybe you can explain the problem a little more? Do you mean the router just shuts off after a large download, or the download finishes and everything else still downloads slow, etc.
 
Also, if you want to see if the router is the cause, try eliminating it by connecting your computer straight to the broadband. Make sure you have a software firewall on your computer before doing this. Then try to do more downloads and see if your performance improves. If not, then you are probably being capped.

u_KevinO
 
Crashsector said:
Well I don't entirely understand your situation. Maybe you can explain the problem a little more? Do you mean the router just shuts off after a large download, or the download finishes and everything else still downloads slow, etc.
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The connection to the Internet drops, so I have to restart the modem and the router. Sometime, I even have to go to the router setup page and renew the lease. Machines on the network usually still ping another, but not to the Internet. The downloading computer tends to keep the connection, but the other machines on the network normally lose it. Usually, our Macintosh loses its connection first, but sometimes even the download machine loses it. This could be a smaller issue if I'm the only one to use the broadband, but I share it (and the bill obviously) with my wife, so I feel like being a pig if the connecting drops like crazy when I download stuff. Please, let me know if you are still not clear. :)
 
KevinO said:
Also, if you want to see if the router is the cause, try eliminating it by connecting your computer straight to the broadband. Make sure you have a software firewall on your computer before doing this. Then try to do more downloads and see if your performance improves. If not, then you are probably being capped.

u_KevinO
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I have tried this, and yes, the problem went away. So, do you think it's probably the router, too? :)
 
sounds like the router, then. I'd try a firmware update first, then consider a replacement. For the latter, make sure you've got a return option when you buy the new one in case it's not the solution.
 
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