[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - router performance

[Bob Kline]

I'm on Comcast, and talking
about a home router.

   -- Bob


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Adam Erickson <adam at openfad.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tested this on home modems for verizon/comcast/at&t?
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A friend read something in some Intel
> > literature which mentioned that router
> > performance could be improved by
> > selection just, say, G, rather than B/G.
> >
> > I tried this on my Linksys wireless route,
> > selecting G only.
> >
> > The results were astounding.  A 35%
> > increase in uploading speed, and a
> > 25% increase in the download speed,
> > as measured by http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> > late at night.  In fact, I get the faster
> > upload speed doing the test any time
> > of the day.
> >
> > Why?  i.e., what might be behind this?
> > I have no wireless devices that use B
> > anyway, and no real reason to have
> > the B/G option, which is the default.
> >
> > So the router spends that much effort
> > trying to decide whether to use B or G?
> >
> > The bottom line is that I've apparently
> > lost a lot of performance for a long time......
> >
> >
> >    -- Bob
> >
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