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100 MBPS fiber internet - What hardware do I need?

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HGC

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My ISP just hooked me up with 100 MBPS fiber optic broadband service. And cheaply, too. WooHoo!

Though it clocked in at 90+ connected directly to my PC, my 12 year old Linksys router is limiting it to 20-30. A new D-Link gaming router arrives today that promises 100 WAN in the specs. I have two connected PCs, one Vista and one XP Home.

My question is, is this all I need to make the most of my fortunate situation? Would gigabit LAN NICs or just a switch with no router (I guess I'd have to use software firewalls) be any better? Would an expensive enterprise class router be better? Anything else I'm missing?

I don't do LAN parties. I'm just looking for maximum throughput from the internet to my two Windows boxes.

Many thanks.



 
100Mb/s Wow, where do you live. i'm moving in next door. Here 100Mb/s fiber costs about 4grand a month

I would suggest something with a gigabit wan interface.
If you know networking well i would suggest a computer with 2 gigabit interfaces running Mikrotik. If not get something like the D-link DIR-655. I think thats the one that has all gigabit interfaces and wireless N wifi.
 
So you are getting nearly a 1Gb internet connection to your house or did you just capitalize the wrong letter? If you are going to truly saturating the bandwidth go for enterprise equipment. Otherwise SOHO stuff will just be overworked and be bogged down.
 
GigE NICs and switch/router would do just fine.
There's a reg value to edit for Vista, to loosen the network util limit.
Not sure about XP.
 
Wow.. I don't think it would be possible to use up all of that by yourself. The people you download from would probably be your bottle neck or the hard drive on your computer! I do not know about Mikrotik but pfsense is pretty good.. any old computer should work and it would be cheaper then an enterprise class router. You could even get a Soekris box to put it on, but you might not get the full 100 with that, since they use 100Mb/s ports
 
Originally posted by: networkman
Color me skeptical.
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Agreed. I think the OP has his units mixed up. I have 20Mb/ps fiber and thats just about the limit for what i would want to pay for just myself.
 
Yeah, i was skeptical too. But who knows. And yes, you will be hard pressed to find a server that can fill that up.
And as for using that by your self, I know i sure could, And if it was a 100Mb/s upload it would be all that much better.
I would be hosting game servers and shared hosting.
 
Thanks for the comments, guys.

I can hardly believe it myself. I'm getting 75,000 kilobits per second from some online speed test sites.

I live in the small rural town of Fairfield, Iowa, population 10,000. The local ISP/phone company got a large loan from a govt. agency to hook up the heartland. It costs $60 a month, including unlimited local and LD phone service. TV is coming in a few months.

The D-Link Gigabit Gaming Router with normal CAT 5 cable seems to be doing pretty well for only $75 from NewEgg. I guess I'll just make sure to get gigabit LAN motherboards next time and leave it at that. Spending hundreds on a better router won't do much I guess, as most all of what I get online will be sent so much slower anyway.
 
That's like 2.5 T3's, right? What ISP is running that kind of pipe to SOHO users? Seriously, I'll move if it isn't the Middle East. More details, please!

Edit: you beat my post by 30 seconds 🙂. They need programmers in Iowa?
 
Here is their website with all the details.

http://www.liscofiber.com/

We have a lot of small companies here, including some techs, the home office of a large wholesale brokerage company, and a books division of Reader's Digest. LISCO, the ISP, got a $9,000,000 loan from something called the Rural Utilities Service to hook up the whole town. There is a God!

I'm not a programmer, so I'm not too sure of the market for them, but obviously some are needed.
 
Well, those of us on verizon or any large Telco, it'll be decades before we see this. They'll have the ability to do it but they're all for making the most profits while providing the least service. These smaller ISP's are actually more geared towards satisfying their customers needs. 100mbit/sec fiber, not bad at all. Consider yourself very lucky and...don't move. If the major telco's weren't all for making the most profit, most of the US would actually have this by now but they don't want to re-invest the money they get back into the infrastructure. Oh well, I'm still "satisfied" with my 10mb/sec cable service.
 
Yes, Consider yourself VERY VERY lucky, this seems like the real deal.
Now, only if i could get that here. i pay the same price for 10/1, 100/100 would be very useful.
 
Damn that would be nice. I think I would have ti invest in mroe hard drives though. If you're using a Gigabit router bump to cat5e for your short runs, I would even upgrade the NIC if you don't have gigabit.

I would die for half those speeds.
 
Originally posted by: mooseracing
Damn that would be nice. I think I would have ti invest in mroe hard drives though. If you're using a Gigabit router bump to cat5e for your short runs, I would even upgrade the NIC if you don't have gigabit.

I would die for half those speeds.
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im happy with the 8 down i get....i dont even know what id do if i had 20 down. i dont need anywhere near the amount of multimedia (i assume thats why you want it) some of you guys seem to crave.

read a book, fer chrissakes 😉
 
Originally posted by: kevnich2
Well, those of us on verizon or any large Telco, it'll be decades before we see this. They'll have the ability to do it but they're all for making the most profits while providing the least service. These smaller ISP's are actually more geared towards satisfying their customers needs. 100mbit/sec fiber, not bad at all. Consider yourself very lucky and...don't move. If the major telco's weren't all for making the most profit, most of the US would actually have this by now but they don't want to re-invest the money they get back into the infrastructure. Oh well, I'm still "satisfied" with my 10mb/sec cable service.
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I love disinformation and hating "corporationy corporations".

You will see 100 meg services everywhere within the next 5 years. Cable/telco are already rolling it out. It is exactly because of competition that you see this.

I for one don't like paying for the OPs internet service. But I am and it isn't right.
 
The D-Link DGL-4100 router that I bought is connecting at the same speeds that I get without a router, i.e., 55,000-75,000 kbps.

I've really been enjoying the smallnetbuilder site, but it got me wondering if there is any advantage to a router with gigabit WAN, as opposed to the 100 mbps WAN on this router. Why would a product aimed at gamers and/or SOHO offer 1,000 mbps WAN?

 
Originally posted by: HGC
wondering if there is any advantage to a router with gigabit WAN, as opposed to the 100 mbps WAN on this router. Why would a product aimed at gamers and/or SOHO offer 1,000 mbps WAN?
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Because they can for little/no increased cost. If your upstream is limited to 100 Mb/s, then it can't improve performance as it would link at 100 Mb/s in any case.
 
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