Do routers reduce throughput??

Rexxx007 · Post by **Rexxx007** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 1:30 pm

as far as i can tell. no i did the speed test
before router install and the after,same results. then a month ater i got a friend that lives across town to do the same test at the same time with me. him with no router, me with and we were close with the same speeds up and down.

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 1:41 pm

yea no

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 1:44 pm

My linksys router totally cripples my speeds. Without it I get 5000/1000, with it I get 3000/700. Quite a difference.

Chromzy · Post by **Chromzy** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 4:03 pm

I'm in the same boat as WEE, the linksys router does rob me of throughput

Regards,
Chromzy

steve · Post by **steve** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 5:54 pm

I've done numerous speed/download tests with & without my Linksys BEFS41 router, and I have no appreciable difference. A lot of people have reported slowdowns with the Linky's though, guess I'm lucky for a change. Mine works great, I can be simultaneously downloading files on 3 computers at once and barely see a slowdown most of the time.

donald_k · Post by **donald_k** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 10:50 pm

unfortuantely my speeds from 8000/3000 without the router go down to 4000/1000...damn Linksys. Get a Netgear as people who are on OOL who got slowdown from the Linky love their Netgear units.

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 11:48 pm

This is great. So the answer is yes and no?? Anyone with the router want to show some documentation of the slowdown?

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 12:02 am

Does anyone know? Which router do you recommend? Do some reduce throughput more than others? Thank!

Andrew

dannjr · Post by **dannjr** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 2:49 am

Well I can say that the Ugate 3200 didn't slow me down any..
Cablenut has the same one and his speeds have stayed up..
You do have to twaek it different than the norm.
Older firmware with the router had given some small problems but thats been fixed..
One thing that I like Ugate for, is that they listen to the customers, and if I have to call which has happened twice to beat them up for older firmware I only had to wait on the phone 5 minutes max...
Look at the support you can get also not just the speed.
Also another thing on this router is that I have yet to have to worry about forwarding ports or having it drop connections..
I should mention this there was a problem with it dropping connections on games this seems to have been fixed with the new firmware too

crstokes · Post by **crstokes** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:35 pm

I've had a weird issue with the Belkin N1 Wireless router. Awesome speed (300mbps) as long as I'm unsecured. As soon as I'm secured, it drops to 54. Anyone know how to deal with this issue. I have talked to about 6 Belkin Techs who don't have a clue how to help me. I'm waiting for my next callback from a "level 3" tech, (which one of the techs tried to convince me resided in customer service, who of course routed me back to tech support.)

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:11 am

crstokes wrote:I've had a weird issue with the Belkin N1 Wireless router. Awesome speed (300mbps) as long as I'm unsecured. As soon as I'm secured, it drops to 54. Anyone know how to deal with this issue. I have talked to about 6 Belkin Techs who don't have a clue how to help me. I'm waiting for my next callback from a "level 3" tech, (which one of the techs tried to convince me resided in customer service, who of course routed me back to tech support.)

Wow...bumped a REALLY old thread here. Your issues is more with wireless on the LAN side, than routers and throughput with internet traffic.

When you run wireless security..you introduce some overhead. Depending on the performance abilities of your computers...the amount of slowdown will vary a little bit...as security requires CPU power for the encryption.

Which security type are you using? WEP has more overhead, so slows you down more. Not to mention it's old..and not really secure anymore. WPA or WPA2 is what you want....better security, easier to setup, and less overhead..so better performance.