This is going to sound strange, I have a cable connection which is rated at 10mbps(1250KBps theoretical top speed) and was always getting 800KBps top speeds from known fast servers, if my g/f was also downloading something at the same time from a fast server we would both get about 500KBps. All in all about what you would expect from a 10mbps connection, now it gets wierd though.
I decided to buy a router because i have a PS3 and my ISP only provides 2 IP's so i kept having to turn my PC off whan i wanted to go online with my PS3 and that got old real fast so i bought a router. Its a Cisco/Linksys WRT-54GL and i never ran it for longer than 10 sec before flashing the firmware to Tomato. After setting it up and getting the PC's connected and working fine i added a new HDD to my computer, long story short i ended up reinstalling both my OS's. This is when i noticed that during the updates i was seeing d/l speeds of 1500-1800KBps, i didnt think much of it at the time and thought it must be in kbps not KBps. After finishing the installs i installed all my steam games again as i accidentally wiped them during the OS reinstalls, they were downloading and updating at 1500-1800KBps and now that i was in my OS i confirmed this with network monitoring software. Note that now when both me and the g/f are both downloading from fast servers we each get about 900-1000KBps. So how did my internet connection double from adding a router?
The only thing i can think of is that the modem was not effective at providing 2 IP's and this slowed it down, as now my router takes only 1 IP and splits it so the modem no longer has to provide 2 IP's like it was before.
I decided to buy a router because i have a PS3 and my ISP only provides 2 IP's so i kept having to turn my PC off whan i wanted to go online with my PS3 and that got old real fast so i bought a router. Its a Cisco/Linksys WRT-54GL and i never ran it for longer than 10 sec before flashing the firmware to Tomato. After setting it up and getting the PC's connected and working fine i added a new HDD to my computer, long story short i ended up reinstalling both my OS's. This is when i noticed that during the updates i was seeing d/l speeds of 1500-1800KBps, i didnt think much of it at the time and thought it must be in kbps not KBps. After finishing the installs i installed all my steam games again as i accidentally wiped them during the OS reinstalls, they were downloading and updating at 1500-1800KBps and now that i was in my OS i confirmed this with network monitoring software. Note that now when both me and the g/f are both downloading from fast servers we each get about 900-1000KBps. So how did my internet connection double from adding a router?
The only thing i can think of is that the modem was not effective at providing 2 IP's and this slowed it down, as now my router takes only 1 IP and splits it so the modem no longer has to provide 2 IP's like it was before.
