A networking problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

Have you verified that the cable modem has the newest firmware?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On 04/26/2012 01:47 PM, Sean Keating wrote:
>> So you have to ask what is the difference between the routers and the
>> linux box. Are you testing with the same cables in all situations? Are
>> the routers doing any firewalling or packet filtering? Can you get your
>> hands on another brand of router to see if there is a difference?
>>
>
> Sean,
>
> Turning on/off the router firewall does not help.
>
> Using another brand of router will be my last choice because I have a
> bunch of routers here. Unfortuantely they are all Linksys/Cisco. I may
> have to try a real Cisco router instead of the "home" version.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu
>
>
>> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 07:11 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
>>> I need your advice !!!
>>>
>>> Recently my home network is pretty slow when accessing the Internet .
>>> Contacting the ISP's support shows the problem is my Linksys (E3000)
>>> router. Their tests are:
>>> - connecting the PCs directly to the ISP cable modem ( a Motorola )
>>> shows the bandwidth as high as expected.
>>> - connecting the PCs to my router, which connects to the modem, shows
>>> the bandwidth is pretty low.
>>>
>>> So I got another router (E4200) to test but it shows the same pattern:
>>> slow with router, fast with modem only.
>>>
>>> I do not believe that both routers are bad so I install a Linux server
>>> that acts as a router between the Linksys router and the modem. The
>>> purpose is to check the packets and bandwidth from the router.
>>>
>>> Well, now all my PCs (wireless or wired) behind the Linksys router
>>> access the Internet as fast as when I connect them directly to the modem.
>>>
>>> How can this be ? Some kind of conflicting between the Linksys routers
>>> and the modem ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vu
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>>
>>
>
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