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Originally Posted by copernob
You love ridiculing people who know sod all about routers or just a little about them.
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not really dude, I actually go out of my way to explain things to people and encourage them to buy and set things up the proper way so everything works and they don't have to keep posting on forums for help. It is Qas that likes to ridicule people so you can look forward to that later
because he isn't going to be impressed with your post.
Anyways, you are the one who keeps flapping on about stuff to do with wireless and the reason why we go on about wired connections is because wireless connectivity is prone to interference as a result of multiple factors and any speed reduction will more than likely be a result of impaired communication between your device and wireless router and not your router and wan connection. That is why we said do a direct wired test because you for all intents and purposes you remove most of the variables which would affect your lan connection and move to being able to test your VM connection.
You can look up patch cables all you want on google but I'll give you the skinny version here. UTP (you made a typo) is Unshielded Twisted Pair) which is by far the prevalent type is use today (you can also get STP which you can look up). The colours are irrelevant and only serve a descriptive purpose. As an example, if you have a large 48 port switch, with all the ports in use, as well as labelling each cable you might want to use different coloured cables so you can immediately see what type of devices are connected to each. As an example. I use black cables for the links between my routers and switches, yellow for my servers and blue for the clients (e.g. pc/tv/bluray player). The difference between cat5, 5e and 6 won't matter to you. The wiring is slightly different inside the cable and the whole point is that each type of cable is able to achieve increasingly higher speeds. You should really be using cat 5e these days because it is rated at 1gbit (1000mbits for you) but seeming as though you are only testing a 60mbit connection cat5 is fine.
Like Milambar said, it is obvious you have got some vpn software on your pc which you aren't even aware of so before you come onto a forum like this and whine about stuff not working you should clean house first. We can't anticipate every single thing you might be using to see if your connection is screwed up. If you think we are bad, you should try ringing VM up. They'll do a factory reset on your router for you and tell you you have got a virus.
Adios ciao au revoir