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Re: [LUG] Router

 

To you both my eternal thanks. I need to look at my internet
connection. Thanks for being patient with me.

Rich


On 28 December 2017 at 15:52, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/12/17 09:30, Daniel Robinson wrote:
>> Hi Rich.
>>
>> I'll try and break this down for you.
>>
>> Internal network : Transfer speeds UP TO 1Gbps (between internal devices)
>> Internet Speed router side : Transfer Speeds UP TO 100Mbps. (between ALL
>> devices and modem going out)
>> Internet Speed in your area : UP TO 8.1Mbps Down, 2Mbps Up
>>
>> So your upload speed will always be 2Mbps to the internet from any
>> device regardless of internal network wiring.
>>
>> Hope this helps somewhat.
>
> Daniel's done most of the clarification work for me (thanks chief) so
> hopefully it's clearer now where the speed bottleneck is for your
> network - it's the ISP and the broadband package you're paying for
> firstly and then the slower 100Mbps connection from the old router into
> the 1000Mbps device. Or at least, it was.
>
> It seems now that you've ditched the old modem (was it really just a
> standalone unit?) and replaced it entirely with a new all-in-one unit
> that functions as your ADSL modem, router, wifi basestation and has an
> integrated 4 port switch. Presumably it has a Netgear or D-Link badge on
> it. "Hubs" are no longer a thing thank god - the 4 ports on your new
> gadget are full switching ports and we refer to these devices as
> "switches" to distinguish them. We all knew what you meant to be fair
> but hubs and switches are very different things.
>
> So now if I'm still following along correctly, you've only got the new
> all-in-one box between your wired and wifi clients and the big bad
> internet. All wired machines will be running at 1Gbps internally and
> your wifi clients at whatever speeds are negotiated depending on the
> 802.11 standards supported (A/B/G/N/AC etc) between them and the
> basestation.
>
> Finally, all internet traffic is shunted through your ADSL connection at
> whatever speeds your ISP provides, which Daniel helpfully says are
> ~8Mbps/2Mbps wherever you live. And of course it doesn't even matter if
> you replace your internal networking with a Â40k Brocade converged
> 100Gbps switch: nothing, including Dropbox uploads, is going out of your
> network faster than 2Mbps because that is your hard limit.
>
> Does this all make sense now?
>
> Cheers
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