Slow LAN Speeds with DI-524 Router

[thenarcissist73]

I'll keep this simple

With my internet prior to installing a router I was getting about 5MB/s online and 9MB/s on LAN, now that I installed a DI-524 instead of a direct link to my internet i'm only getting around 1.2MB/s online and 800KB/s on LAN.

Computer LAN Card: Onboard VIA Velocity Gigabit adapter
Router: DLink DI-524

Why is it being so slow with the router? Is this normal?

Thanks

 

[blemoine]

Have you tried switching the Router with a known good router. also you may want get a switch for you lan pc's and let the router share internet.

 

[thenarcissist73]

would a switch not bog down my connection? and no i havent tried another router, next weekend i might be able to switch it with a linksys WRT54G

 

[earthman]

Are you using the software firewall? How about virus/spam filtering? Any of those things can slow you down substantially. (Shouldn't be that much though)

 

[thenarcissist73]

No i'm not using the software firewall, nor spam filtering / virus filtering.

 

[thenarcissist73]

I swapped my dlink with a linksys, now my speed maxes out at about 3MB/s instead of the 1MB/s on the dlink... but its still not the 9MB/s i was getting...

EDIT: put the router in "router" mode instead of "gateway" and its working great now

 

[imported_cronik]

How did you manage to change it to router from gateway?

I'm having exact same problem.

 

[tuteja1986]

amm ;( i got a dlink router and i get max speed ;( 1.5Mbits

Anyways i know a dude with cable and he also has the same dlink 624+ and he can download at arround 1MB per sec and his cable max out 12Mbits. i don't think its router and anyways where are you downloading from ? also if you are using bt make sure that you have oppened the port. Also download something from a site that is hosted by your ISP ;(.

 

[imported_cronik]

I'm in the USA, I use comcast 6mb down /

 

[thenarcissist73]

I wasnt getting 1Mbit/sec cap, i was getting 1MB/sec cap.

I switched to a linksys wrt54g and changed to router mode (the dlink doesnt support this i dont believe), and now i'm getting ~8.5MB/s (~68Mbits)

I guess 70Mbit is a bit faster than the router was designed for

 

[M1CH43L]

this is interesting, i ahve the same exact router, the DI-524 and recieve speeds at a whopping 100Mbit. I do have an ethernet connection, and one computer is connecting to the network with no wires. This computer connected via ethernet gets 100Mbit.

 

[thenarcissist73]

the difference with you is all your other computers with that router are plugged directly into the router, i'm using it just as an access point on an already existing college network so all the traffic from the entire network is coming through the WAN port (it was with the dlink until i switched to the linksys). thats why using the linksys in router mode (for already existing networks) allowed my speeds to go back to normal.

question though: how do i log back into my linksys router with it in router mode, 192.168.1.1 doesnt work because i'm no longer on the routers network

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : rh.rit.edu
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VIA Networking Velocity-Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-8D-5E-79-32
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 129.21.112.XXX
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 129.21.112.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 129.21.15.136
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 129.21.3.17
129.21.4.18
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 129.21.18.133
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 129.21.3.95

Maybe that'll help, dont think that has anything to do with it though.