lan network speeds

As far as I know internet connecton is only 10mbs. The speed from the router to your desktop should be 1000mbs.

fmcomputer said:

As far as I know internet connecton is only 10mbs. The speed from the router to your desktop should be 1000mbs.

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the speed from my router to desktop is only 10mbs
the wireless speed from my router to my desktop was 130 mbs before i moved it and hardwired it.

Dave guess you could try seeing if there are new drivers for your NIC card and software upgrade for your router to see if that helps.

You could also try setting it to 100Mbps on your computer with your Linksys powered off and then power up the Linksys to see if that fixes the negotation problem.

thanks rad,
i will try the drivers and the firmware to see if that works.
i tried the router trick

If no improvement, consider a new NIC.

CoriBright said:

If no improvement, consider a new NIC.

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yeah, probably not a bad idea. even though the one that i have is less than a year old

NIC's are dirt cheap, I wouldn't waste too much time playing around trying to get it to work.

dave29 said:

my desktop has a 10/100/1000 ethernet jack and my router (linksys wrt300n) supports 10/100/1000 mbs.

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The WRT300N doesn't support gigabit. The switch is 10/100. I'd go with RAD's recommendation of trying to manually set 100Mb.

harsh said:

The WRT300N doesn't support gigabit. The switch is 10/100. I'd go with RAD's recommendation of trying to manually set 100Mb.

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yes i was trying it at 100, i never tried it at 1000.
you are right though, the 300 does not support 1000. i thought it did

The other suggestion would be to try a different cable. The reason being is that switches and network care are "Supposed" to try the fastest connection first then go down from there when they are set to auto negotiation. Obviously 10Mb/Sec is the least desirable when it comes to wired LAN Speeds.

So I would try a new / different cable and if you have a known good one that works / worked at 100mb then that would be the best one to try.

funhouse69 said:

The other suggestion would be to try a different cable. The reason being is that switches and network care are "Supposed" to try the fastest connection first then go down from there when they are set to auto negotiation. Obviously 10Mb/Sec is the least desirable when it comes to wired LAN Speeds.

So I would try a new / different cable and if you have a known good one that works / worked at 100mb then that would be the best one to try.

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just tried, same results

What firmware version is on the router and also what is the driver version of the network card? Manufacturer and model of the card too if you can provide.

dave29 said:

just tried, same results

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I wouldn't worry about it. Unless you've got fiber (FIOS) internet, your never going to get above 10mb anyway.

If you buy the WD HDD for storing blu-ray and streaming them over the network to your htpc, then you might want to get all your gear up to 1000mb (gigabit) range. I'm looking at those option as well when I get my NAS.

dudeman

the_dudeman said:

I wouldn't worry about it. Unless you've got fiber (FIOS) internet, your never going to get above 10mb anyway.

If you buy the WD HDD for storing blu-ray and streaming them over the network to your htpc, then you might want to get all your gear up to 1000mb (gigabit) range. I'm looking at those option as well when I get my NAS.

dudeman

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TWC and Comcast have a speed boost feature that will push your download speeds above that 10Mb for bursts. And if you have a D* HR2X or R22 DVR then there's also the media serve feature and the Direct2PC software that can require faster then 10Mbps transfers, along with the hope to come soon MRV feature.

RAD said:

TWC and Comcast have a speed boost feature that will push your download speeds above that 10Mb for bursts. And if you have a D* HR2X or R22 DVR then there's also the media serve feature and the Direct2PC software that can require faster then 10Mbps transfers, along with the hope to come soon MRV feature.

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Cool, I need to check out that the media serve feature and Direct2pc.

Who is your provider Dave29? And if you have TWC or Comcast with the boost feature, do they provide or is a gigabit router available?

I still wouldn't worry about it though because as RAD says it's only burst speeds that may go over 10mb if you have the above listed internet providers with the boost feature.

Now when you start streaming those blu-rays where the transfer of huge amounts of data is sustained. then obtain a gigabit router. Your PC is already gigabit, the network cards on motherboards and even pci cards are pretty much all gigabit now.

dudeman

One thing not to be overlooked and I don't see mentioned yet is the duplex mode on the card/switch. A HALF DUPLEX connection instead of FULL DUPLEX is going to have traffic collisions specifically during big downloads and result in a performance hit. So while a 10mb connection may not seem all that bad, a 10mb-half duplex can be. If I have purchased 100mb capable equipment I would not be satisfied with anything less than 100mb-FULL DUPLEX connections.

it is running 10 mb full duplex now. i want it to run 100 mb full duplex but it wont. like stated in other posts, i want to get it to work at 100 mbs full duplex for video transfer/media share and directv 2 pc. i think i may look at getting a gigabit router

i just looked at the linksys wrt350n with a storage link. it is gigabit, but would the storage link work as good as a NAS device

You may want to do some double-checking of your equipment. My DSL modem has only has four 10MB ports. That wouldn't be a problem if I was just connecting to the internet. However, my network consists of several computers, a new color laser printer, and a wireless access port (set up with WPA2 encryption) so that a laptop and another computer can access my network.

I ended up purchasing a 8 port switch and wired everything so that the only slow link (10M) is from the switch to the router. Everything else is a 100M.

How old is your broadband modem?