20 meg connection requiring new router
18-06-2007, 21:41
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20 meg connection requiring new router
I have recently been bumped up to vm's20 meg connection however i have been told by a techie friend that i will need a new router possibly as my belkin wireless 54g only has a ten meg WAN port on it.
is this correct, as im not getting a 20 meg service through the router but when the pc is connected directly it is.
any ideas on which modem is compatible with the 20 meg service
cheers
Trev
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19-06-2007, 01:03
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Re: 20 meg connection requiring new router
Yes, that's definitely true, your router only has a 10Mb WAN port yet it's dealing with 20Mb broadband.
As for recommendations, i'm not sure. 
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19-06-2007, 11:52
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Re: 20 meg connection requiring new router
Here you go:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/87...info-here.html
It's one of the stickies at the top of this sub-forum btw
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19-06-2007, 12:18
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Re: 20 meg connection requiring new router
That stickie was very useful. Unfortunately, my router ( the Apple Airport Extreme) was not listed.
Though I'm getting good service from it now with 1 desktop and 3 wireless laptop computers connected I concerned that there may be problems when the 20 Mb service starts.
Anybody out there with this router on the 20 Mb system care to comment please? TIA.
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19-06-2007, 12:50
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Re: 20 meg connection requiring new router
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Originally Posted by redrobe
I have recently been bumped up to vm's20 meg connection however i have been told by a techie friend that i will need a new router possibly as my belkin wireless 54g only has a ten meg WAN port on it.
is this correct, as im not getting a 20 meg service through the router but when the pc is connected directly it is.
any ideas on which modem is compatible with the 20 meg service
cheers
Trev
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which router have you got as 99% of the routers even the belkin units have got 10/100 ethernet ports on the unit and standard those are set too 100 automatically 
soz druchii but a bit of wrong info there mate
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19-06-2007, 14:01
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Re: 20 meg connection requiring new router
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Originally Posted by DocDutch
which router have you got as 99% of the routers even the belkin units have got 10/100 ethernet ports on the unit and standard those are set too 100 automatically
soz druchii but a bit of wrong info there mate |
No mate, i'm on about WAN ports, not LAN.
Sure, LAN ports these days are usually 100Mbps, even 1000mbps, however WAN ports may still only be 10Mbps. And even if they are 100Mbps, most routers just don't have the CPU power to deliver that kind of data rate.
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