Broadband Routers

[Adion1]

I am lucky enough to live in an area where Verizon FiOS is available. I noticed that my upstream speed was only about 20% of what Verizon said I should have. Some investigation showes that the bottle neck is my router. A D-Link DGL-4300, which is hard wired into a gigabit switch and my computer is hard wired into that. I'm not a gamer but I do send out large files so the upstream speed is important. I can't find any documentation that tells me this or other typical "home" routers have overall limits on their upstream capacity, so I don't know if I've got a defective unit or simply need to step up to a more capable router. My service is now at 20 / 20 and if I connect directly to the Verizon box I get better than 20mbs down and about 18 mbs up. When I go thru the router the down stream is the same, but the upstream drops to about 1.3mbs.

Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this, or what router would give me the full band width I'm paying for.

Al

[Aragorn]

Reading the dlink page makes reference to

Intelligently manages and automatically prioritizes network traffic to better execute bandwidth-sensitive applications including VoIP and multimedia applications

It's possible that the default 'intelligence' is throttling your upload. I would check the user guide to see if you can turn the traffic management or at least shape it the way you want.

[Adion1]

That was too frickin easy. I've been reading about these things for a day and a half, and the answer was like a big tree hidden in the forest. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Yesterday the verizon guy made me feel stupid for not going around the router to check the service before I called him. Today... well you know.

Thanks
Al