Cable Forum - 50M Upgrading from 50mb to 100mb

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35416498)

firstly, you are not going to get 100mbit if you NIC is connected at 100mbit because there is other stuff going on in the background which you have got to allow for. In order for you to get 100mbit (and soon to be more) you need a gigabit NIC with any ports on your roters/switches/modem also at 1 gigabit.

secondly, speed tests are still dodgy. Unless you like tormenting yourself take my advice and download 8 large files from gamershell (or newsgroups if you use them) and look at the speed. When the shub said I was only getting 36mbit on speed tests I was still pulling over 12mb/sec on downloads.

Thanks GM you were spot on. I bi-passed the route and wired directly into the modem and now I receive between 101 - 105mbit :)

I have a Hub being delivered on a self-install but will keep the modem as back-up just in case.

As another option does anyone know a good wireless router with Gig ports?