I have Comcast Cable Internet and I just bought the Netgear Rangemax Wireless G/Mimo Router, I was told at Best Buy that it was a lot faster and better than my old Netgear Wireless G Router but when I do a speedtest at www.speedtest.net the stats aren't what I was expecting... I made sure I picked the closest station and everything, I mean I don't even have my Xbox 360 hooked up to it yet...
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That is with nothing but youtube and this site running...
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You got to be kidding me! You are only testing your internet speed at speedtest.net. Your old router was completely fine. Your old router is as fast as your new router. The salesman took advantage of your ignorance and made a sale.
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well being on comcrap your are limited to a set bandwidth for your whole block, if im not mistaken. so if all your neighbors have it and are downloading a crap load, you could just get little bandwith coming your direction. IMO, thats why dsl is better.
However, those speed tests are usually not accurate. try other sites, try downloading a big file from a company with good servers (microsoft, apple) etc and see what speeds you get.
edit, the salesman was not lieing it IS faster, just for your intranet not internet -
It could be a firmware update away from achieving good performance. Did you have faster speeds on your old router? Also, the catchphrase for cable is "up to" so much of the rated value. You could probably have numerous connections on your cable line which could slow you down.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Take the router back, the one you had is fine. And the range max only works with their hardware. So you will have to buy another card for your nb. But it only effects your internal speed, has nothing to do with you ISP Speed.
If you needing faster internal speeds GigE is the way to go. -
Well the speed I have right now isn't horrible while surfing and I don't lag on WoW but will I lag when playing XBL and WoW at the same time?
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If your internet couldn't use all of the bandwidth your old router could put out, then you won't see a difference by getting a new router. Sounds like you got con'd by best buy.
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your router has nothing to do with it
call comcast and see if you can upgrade to a faster tier of service which will cost more money
What is wrong with my internet?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by ZAW 4700, Dec 4, 2007.