[rocks.in.my.shoes]

Ever since I hooked up my router, my upload speed is horrible, especially with things like AIM?

[Acid Reign]

you need to forward certain ports on your router.. i forget what AIM runs on, but it will allow you to speed up alot.

i had the same problem with bittorrent. i was getting like 3 kbps. after i forwarded the ports, i was getting 200+

just look up in google "[program] tcp/ip port"

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

Thanks.

What about web browsing? I forwarded port 80 for HTTP. Is this correct? Browsing has not seemed to improve.

[Acid Reign]

browsing isn't affected at all, you only forward 80 if you're running an HTTP server and want people outside the router to be able to access it.

i'm not sure the "technical" reason... but i know it works for BT

if your browsing is slow, its your ISP

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

Is it possible that a router networking 2 PC's would slow down internet browsing though?

[Acid Reign]

only if both were using the internet intensively

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

Does the router have anything to do with the Local Area Network? I've got an icon in the system tray that says, "Local Area Network - A network cable is unplugged"

Should it be plugged in?

[Acid Reign]

it'll say that if a cable is disconnected anywhere, even if you are going straight to the modem

that message just tells you that you have no physical connectivity

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

What I'm trying to determine here is why my browsing and download speed is so piss poor (6k/s) on my wireless router connected to a laptop. I e-mailed Netgear about the port lights being yellow, not green, and this is what they said:

Please note that the yellow light on the Lan port is an indication that the connection speed is 10 mbps. Please make sure that your adapter on the computer supports 100 mbps. However, you can check the speed of the adapter by following the steps given below:

1. Click on Start/Settings/Control Panel/Network and Dial up.
2. Right click on LAN connection and select Properties. Now click the Configure button.
3. Click on Advanced and select Speed / Duplex Mode
4. Change the value to 10 mbps half and click Ok.

I did this and there was no improvement. So I come to the conclusion that perhaps my adapter does not support 100 mbps?

It is a Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

What else can I do?

[Acid Reign]

4. Change the value to 10 mbps half and click Ok.

is there a setting you can change it to thats 100mbps and full?

half duplex and 10 mbps are the slowest forms...

how old is that NIC?

[edit- is this hardwire or wireless?]

This post has been edited by Acid Reign: 23 July 2004 - 02:42 AM

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

I did try 100mbps full and it did not change anything...at least not on the laptop. On the desktop (which is directly connected to the modem), it worked really well.

It is a wireless from 2003.

Could it be the adapter in the desktop or could the ports be too old? For example, my external hard drive was slower on USB 1.1, but once I plugged into the laptop 2.0 ports, it improved much more.

This post has been edited by rocks.in.my.shoes: 23 July 2004 - 03:29 AM

[Acid Reign]

what 802.11 standards are each of those on?

if unless you've got a G router and a B wireless card, they'll have to be the same

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

What do you mean?

802.1p QOS is disabled.

[Acid Reign]

i mean the actual router and card themselves... what are they?

802.11a
802.11b
802.11g

those are the three released standards.. it should say it somewhere huge, acting like its something hugely important

[rocks.in.my.shoes]

They are not labeled on the outside anywhere and I haven't seen it in any of the properties.

What do they mean?