I just moved and am having some odd issue with my Netgear WGR614v3. My old setup worked great.
Old setup:
Old Toshiba cable modem on Comcast HSI 10 meg > WGR614v3 to:
1 wired PC
1 wired Netgear Gigabit Switch to: PC/Xbox360/Tivo
No wireless except for PSP now and then
Net Setup
New Arris VOIP cable modem on Comcast HSI 10 meg > WGR614v3 to:
1 wired PC
1 wireless PC 802.11g
Left Tivo, Xbox360, etc out of the picture for now.
When wired PC is connected directly via ethernet to Arris modem I get SWEET speeds everytime (970KB to even a nice solid sustained 1MB from EasyNews). My last connection would sometimes get close to this during really off peak hours but usually in the 6-700KB range and was getting nasty unstable. So new area appears to be much faster, fewer users, etc.
Now when I wire to the netgear, the wired PC immediately drops down into the 3-450KB range. I immediately switch it around, and its back to 900KB+ downloading the same file. I've done the switch 4-5 times now and its conclusive. The wireless PC is off, nothing else is going through router. Checked logs, etc.
Router is set to spoof my PC's mac. It gets the same IP, subnet, dns, gateway, etc. Only real difference is I'm not going through the Gigabit switch and my NIC is gigabit, but its connecting at 100 fine. I wouldn't think I really need to mess with the MTU or flows on the card itself. I am pretty sure when connected directly to the Arris its 10 or 100 base also. So all I really have is a big finger pointing at the router, but it handled the speeds fine just days ago on the old setup. Its got last firmware update, wireless security, no extra devices connected, etc. Seems odd, so any suggestions for this mystery before I go out and spend $100+ for the Dlink 4300?
Old setup:
Old Toshiba cable modem on Comcast HSI 10 meg > WGR614v3 to:
1 wired PC
1 wired Netgear Gigabit Switch to: PC/Xbox360/Tivo
No wireless except for PSP now and then
Net Setup
New Arris VOIP cable modem on Comcast HSI 10 meg > WGR614v3 to:
1 wired PC
1 wireless PC 802.11g
Left Tivo, Xbox360, etc out of the picture for now.
When wired PC is connected directly via ethernet to Arris modem I get SWEET speeds everytime (970KB to even a nice solid sustained 1MB from EasyNews). My last connection would sometimes get close to this during really off peak hours but usually in the 6-700KB range and was getting nasty unstable. So new area appears to be much faster, fewer users, etc.
Now when I wire to the netgear, the wired PC immediately drops down into the 3-450KB range. I immediately switch it around, and its back to 900KB+ downloading the same file. I've done the switch 4-5 times now and its conclusive. The wireless PC is off, nothing else is going through router. Checked logs, etc.
Router is set to spoof my PC's mac. It gets the same IP, subnet, dns, gateway, etc. Only real difference is I'm not going through the Gigabit switch and my NIC is gigabit, but its connecting at 100 fine. I wouldn't think I really need to mess with the MTU or flows on the card itself. I am pretty sure when connected directly to the Arris its 10 or 100 base also. So all I really have is a big finger pointing at the router, but it handled the speeds fine just days ago on the old setup. Its got last firmware update, wireless security, no extra devices connected, etc. Seems odd, so any suggestions for this mystery before I go out and spend $100+ for the Dlink 4300?
