Slow Speed With Wired Router

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Both Apple and Asus learned the hard the way that Aluminium doesn't work with wifi.

lol, you never used a TiBook.

[J Arcane]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Both Apple and Asus learned the hard the way that Aluminium doesn't work with wifi.

In this case, it's not just the Transformer's fault. I get shoddy signal with my other devices too.

Originally Posted by Mot Wakorb

There shouldn't be loss through one of these devices (not current ones at least.) You're not adding enough overhead in NAT translations at all, because the firewall does the job of keeping a table without mangling the packets.

This is a nice thought, but I've literally never seen it be true in real life on consumer-level hardware.

Originally Posted by Slack3r78

lol, you never used a TiBook.

I did!

Think was pretty sweet for its age, honestly, even if it was falling apart.

[Mot Wakorb]

Originally Posted by J Arcane

This is a nice thought, but I've literally never seen it be true in real life on consumer-level hardware.

Just as my argument here is anecdotal, yours is as well - I've not had issue like you have with consumer hardware. Milage varies for everyone.

[Bone]

My routers typically have little to no real impact on my speeds. Else I would have just used the cable company's modem as my router.

[Psykoboy2]

Didn't do a damn thing. I'm now getting a green light on the port on the router the PC is plugged into. Not sure what changed, but I'd say we're good.

[Mot Wakorb]

Originally Posted by Psykoboy2

Didn't do a damn thing. I'm now getting a green light on the port on the router the PC is plugged into. Not sure what changed, but I'd say we're good.

If you did nothing, replace the cable. Likely bad somewhere.

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by Mot Wakorb

If you did nothing, replace the cable. Likely bad somewhere.

Seconded. Something's causing the switch to autodetect 10/100 instead of gigabit. Cable's most likely culprit.

[PathMaster]

Cable issues are a bitch in any scenario.

[AntonThaGreat]

Originally Posted by PathMaster

Cable issues are a bitch in any scenario.

I've had times where one bad cable took out an entire office network, that one was a bitch to figure out. We were getting all kinds of strange errors and behavior all over the place.

[PathMaster]

My most recent issue was a bad port out of several 48 port switches. Took an entire building down on site.

[Karak]

Originally Posted by AntonThaGreat

I've had times where one bad cable took out an entire office network, that one was a bitch to figure out. We were getting all kinds of strange errors and behavior all over the place.

Thats what I was saying in my first post. A fucking cable can completely debilitate your workflow. Our work basically started up that if something appears hitching with no known cause we look to cables first

[PathMaster]

Originally Posted by Karak

Thats what I was saying in my first post. A fucking cable can completely debilitate your workflow. Our work basically started up that if something appears hitching with no known cause we look to cables first

I am afraid to even think about that to be honest. Our Network room is an ungodly mess of wires. Old phone system with copper and newish switches. Lines labeled incorrectly or illegibly. Yuck! Not my fault luckily. Frankly though, I am more worried that it sits beneath a bathroom and it is in the same room as the boiler. DUST!

[Slack3r78]

Originally Posted by PathMaster

I am afraid to even think about that to be honest. Our Network room is an ungodly mess of wires. Old phone system with copper and newish switches. Lines labeled incorrectly or illegibly. Yuck! Not my fault luckily. Frankly though, I am more worried that it sits beneath a bathroom and it is in the same room as the boiler. DUST!

You really, really do not want to see the wiring closets where I work. Unmitigated disaster is an understatement. All our racks have cabling guides, but for some reason our cable guy (who's been here literally decades) never actually used them. We're talking closets that can have a dozen plus 48 port switches where cables are just intermingled, hanging at random, or strung out between racks. It's nightmare fuel.

[PathMaster]

*cringe*

It would be interesting to show off cable disasters, but that would be a different thread.

[Karak]

Originally Posted by PathMaster

I am afraid to even think about that to be honest. Our Network room is an ungodly mess of wires. Old phone system with copper and newish switches. Lines labeled incorrectly or illegibly. Yuck! Not my fault luckily. Frankly though, I am more worried that it sits beneath a bathroom and it is in the same room as the boiler. DUST!

Hahahaha. We spent 20,000 restoring the room, under the floor AC and moving the entire room. I got them to buy correct wallmounts and so forth so it isn't so bad. SADLY that actually doesn't stop from the random bad cable or pinched cord