I have made some recent upgrades to my network and it is slower than before. I upgraded the router and my Gigabit switch. The new router is a Bufflo WHR-HP-G54 running Tomato. The old router is a D-link 614+. My old Gigabit Switch was a Netgear GS105. The new switch is an HP J9077A 10/100/1000Mbps ProCurve 1400-8G.
I was getting 300Mbps file transfers between any two computers on my network. Now I am getting about 170Mbs file transfers. I swapped out the switch to the old one and nothing changed. I also unhooked my server and my HD Homerun tuner from the network for these tests. I have not had time to swap out routers again and am dredding screwing up my network for a couple hours messing with routers.
I can't understand why a router that is upstream of the switches would effect the network speed but that is the only thing that is different now. I also defragged hard drives just to make sure that was not messing things up.
I have a cable modem and the output of that goes to the WAN port of the router and one of the LAN ports on the router is connected to my switch. The other computers are hooked to the same switch.
What would cause the network speed to drop? Am I getting interference that is slowing down my transmission speeds or could the router have some effect? I am using CAT5e cables. 170kbs seems a bit crappy for a gigabit network, 300kbs I can live with.
Perry
I was getting 300Mbps file transfers between any two computers on my network. Now I am getting about 170Mbs file transfers. I swapped out the switch to the old one and nothing changed. I also unhooked my server and my HD Homerun tuner from the network for these tests. I have not had time to swap out routers again and am dredding screwing up my network for a couple hours messing with routers.
I can't understand why a router that is upstream of the switches would effect the network speed but that is the only thing that is different now. I also defragged hard drives just to make sure that was not messing things up.
I have a cable modem and the output of that goes to the WAN port of the router and one of the LAN ports on the router is connected to my switch. The other computers are hooked to the same switch.
What would cause the network speed to drop? Am I getting interference that is slowing down my transmission speeds or could the router have some effect? I am using CAT5e cables. 170kbs seems a bit crappy for a gigabit network, 300kbs I can live with.
Perry
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