Recent content by brucew268

Speedtest.net says 71Mbps down and 18.7 Mbps up 12ms ping rate... paying for 38Mbps. My wife and I each tend to have 6-12 browser tabs open all day, Outlook checking three email addresses, streaming music on each laptop. So 12 ms doesn't sound so bad, nor does 71Mbps down. Upload seems a little...

Well enough? Yes, I suppose I don;t have any real problems. But I was a bit underwhelmed a couple years ago when I moved to fibre. The speed tests said that my 38Mbps was delivering a good bit more than that, but my internet traffic sure didn't feel much faster. I've have assumed that I'm...

I'm running 38Mbps fibre modem to a no-name router in router mode only which passes off the a Netgear GS108 switch which handles a Wireless AP and a few Ethernet streaming devices. So since my Ethernet traffic between devices is handled by the switch, and Ethernet to WAN is limited by the fibre...

Wireless downstream of switch vs upstream? I’m trying to get my head around "The How To Improve Network Performance" articles. I see that the article recommends getting the internal network switching tasks off of the router, which I’ve done for the wired connections (Netgear GS108), but the...

I won't tell my ISP if you don't ;) Thank you for those clarifications... kind of what I thought. But being not terribly literate in networking issues, I assumed I was missing something.

I'm a bit confused. My ISP says that my fibre modem provides up to 38 Mbps downloads and 19.5 Mbps uploads. But I am getting close to 70 Mbps. I understand reasons that might make it slower, but faster? Also, if WAN>LAN throughput is a measure of the best speed I can get through my WAN...

Error resolved Thanks for your notes, though my current system does not yet have any Windows 7 machines. Perhaps once I add a W7 device, I'll refer back to your posting. But then I don't know what LLTD or IPV6 are... I did find a solution to my problem, which does not seem to be based in the...

I currently have the problem that laptop A can see and open files on laptop B, but laptop B gets errors when it tries to access shared folders on laptop A. In reading the SNB How-To article about networks on Windows XP, I ran across the warning about an all-wireless network due to it playing...

As I look at the software provided by NAS's or in trying to find network mgmt software oriented and priced for a consumer, I'm having trouble finding how they solve this problem. All the computers in our home office are laptops and we often user them for meetings away from the office (often...