Best way to force a 10mb connection?

[spoon805]

What is the best way to force a 10 mb connection from a 10/100 router? (Netgear 4-port router)

My best guess would be to place a hub between the routers and the devices. Is there an alternative?

I tried using an "old" hub to do this, but i kept losing packets from the Internet. This lead to a loss of 75% of my speed to the net to some sites. Do you think a newer hub might be better? Or a hub is a hub?

Does anyone make a 10 mb switch or possibly a NON-auto Sensing 10/100 switch?

Thanks in advance.

Simon

 

[JackMDS]

The WAN part of the Router (the modem connection) is only 10Mb/sec.

Go to the NIC properties, and force them to run at 10Mb/sec.

The whole system will run 10Mb/sec.

 

[spoon805]

I can't find that properties section

I'm running the Netgear RT314 4 Port DSL/Cable Router. I telneted into the router, and there is no "NIC" properties.

However, if you are referring to the NIC properties of my ethernet cards in my machines, I've already done that. I want force a 10 mb connection before the ethernet card (data link layer?)

Thanks

 

[Garion]

The NIC is what controls the speed and does all the interaction with lower layers. Since you can't change the speed at the switch level you have to set it at the NIC (or use your hub which should also work). A hub is pretty much a hub (unless yours is bad), so another won't make much difference.

Why do you want to slow it down? That's a rather odd request..

- G

 

[spoon805]

Currently, I did exactly that - lower my speed on the NIC of my machine. And it works fine. However, I want to connect more devices to a single port on my router (10/100). Sounds simple right? Well, I ran into a few problems.

1) I can only connect at 10 mb - still trying to figure out why.
Therefore, I need a hub/switch that can connect at that rate. However, when I placed a switch (10/100 Autosensing), it attempted to connect at 100 mb, but could not comeplete the connection. It would not drop the connection speed to 10 mb for a succesful link.

2) When I use my current 10mb hub (which is old and has been handled poorly), sometimes I get only 25% of the transfer rates I usualy get to the internet. However, sometimes, its my normal rate. All depends on the site. I've tested this thoroughly, and its not a question of "when" i logged onto sites.

I'm still doing a lot of trial and error. Any additional insights would be great. Thanks