Changing my Router Speed

[Thee Ox]

Hello all.

I have a Linksys 4 Port Eatherfast Cable/DSL router - -Model BEFSR41.
I have two computers attached to them - one is my home pc, the other being a deployed computer from my job, as I work from home. I am hooked up to high speed cable internet service with 5 Megs.

Bottom line, work pc is not working at its best, and my work's IT department called and pinged my system.

The system pinged at 100 milliseconds, and the right ping should be at 35 milliseconds.

Is there any way I can get the speed back from 100 to 35 milliseconds? And, the 192.168.1.1 Linksys address is not working either.

Please...any advice is deeply appreciated because I work from home and really need to keep this job.

Thank you in advance.

Thee Ox

 

[DCIScouts]

Moved to Networking forum.

I'd take it up with your ISP. Remember that with cable it is UP TO 5 Mbps, not a consistent connection at that level. More than likely you're trying to connect at a high traffic time and it is adversely affecting your times. What ISP do you use, and are you in a highly residential area, city, rural, etc...? You may want to consider switching to DSL as it may have a lower bandwidth, but you'll get a much more stable connection speed as your connection is more or less a direct link to the DSL hub; unless you absolutely need all that extra speed... However, remember that with DSL you'll also have some fairly major drop-off in speed compared to cable the further you get from the internet hub...