Connecting a router to a router?

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Poison47

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My brother has his own router in his room that gets the input from our main router then outputs to his game consoles/computers, but he doesn't really do anything that requires a fast connection.

I do however...

This Christmas, my own direct cord from our main router is one of the things i am asking for. I was thinking about getting my own room router like my brother, but will this cut down the speed a whole lot?

im positive it would if i am on internet explorer and playing a PS3 game online at the same time, but would it still be a reasonable speed?

or crap?

And my internet is already high speed and really decent.

haha thanks
Poison47
 
How do you currently connect.... how ever it may be if you play a ps3 game and surf at the same time now it will perform almost exactly the same. Actually it may perform better if you are currently connecting wirelessly. Doing multiple things at once will reduce the total available bandwidth for all users but the line you are asking for is likely 100 megabit and I'm sure your internet connection is not that fast. That said you will max out your internet connection sooner than you will max out the line running to your room. I'd say go for it because any communication between your pc and ps3 will be faster if both are directly connected to your router instead of the other router because you're pretty much creating your own private network.
 
AdmnPower said:
How do you currently connect.... how ever it may be if you play a ps3 game and surf at the same time now it will perform almost exactly the same. Actually it may perform better if you are currently connecting wirelessly. Doing multiple things at once will reduce the total available bandwidth for all users but the line you are asking for is likely 100 megabit and I'm sure your internet connection is not that fast. That said you will max out your internet connection sooner than you will max out the line running to your room. I'd say go for it because any communication between your pc and ps3 will be faster if both are directly connected to your router instead of the other router because you're pretty much creating your own private network.
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you confused me

haha, im sorry, but i know nothing about networking


My PC and PS3 are both connected to wireless internet. and i was thinking about getting my own cord directly from our main wireless router(wireless has gotten too slow for me). then i was just going to plug the cord either into the PC or PS3(which ever one i was using)

and then i thought of getting my own router for my room. but im concerned about speed
 
Why not just move the wireless router to your room and connect to it directly and let your brother connect wirelessly?
 
That may not be realistic for him depending on what kind of internet connection he has. Perhaps it's DSL and there isn't a phone jack in his room. Anyway, that would speed up your connection (to run a hard line and use a router) provided your problem is the fact that you're connecting wirelessly. If your problem is really that you're maxing out your internet connection then I'm afraid a direct line won't help matters much. I could tell you which your problem is if you gave us some sort of indication as to how fast your internet connection is. If you don't know how to look it up I'd suggest a simple speed test. Make sure no one is using the internet when you test it otherwise your results won't be accurate and go to speedtest.net. (I've always found them to be pretty good) Let us know what you come up with.
 
wired is always goin to get priority over wireless and wired will give better speeds u could jus take a cord from ur router then buy an access point and connect it and it would be your own wireless :D
 
AdmnPower said:
That may not be realistic for him depending on what kind of internet connection he has. Perhaps it's DSL and there isn't a phone jack in his room. Anyway, that would speed up your connection (to run a hard line and use a router) provided your problem is the fact that you're connecting wirelessly. If your problem is really that you're maxing out your internet connection then I'm afraid a direct line won't help matters much. I could tell you which your problem is if you gave us some sort of indication as to how fast your internet connection is. If you don't know how to look it up I'd suggest a simple speed test. Make sure no one is using the internet when you test it otherwise your results won't be accurate and go to speedtest.net. (I've always found them to be pretty good) Let us know what you come up with.
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Well cord just kicked my wirelesses ass

on speedtest.net:
wireless downloaded at 3070 kb/s and uploaded at 889 kb/s
cord downloaded at 15137 kb/s and uploaded at 1681 kb/s

but i dont think you guys understand my main question

we have a main router downstairs connected to our modem. I currently use wireless, which as i just showed you is slow as ass. for Christmas, i asked for my own cord from our main router to use it instead of wireless. I was thinking that it would be convenient to get my own router for my room for all of my devices(main computer, PS3, Laptop). but would this make things run slower?

im pretty much ditching wireless in 2009, so i dont need any more info about that.
 
get a switch, it'll be easy for you.
Google for basic networking knowledge.

Who cares if the router is slower, what's a few ms.
 
Yeah, he's probably right... you don't really care much about being separated from the other network. It'd probably be easier if you just got a switch. As for speed, it's only going to be slower (not much) if you're using multiple devices at once. Otherwise it won't make much of any difference.
 
You will not get faster DSL internet doiwnloads off of a wired connection vs a wireless connection. Your wireless G speed is 30-54mb, your internet is less then 8mb.

Problem you are haing is signal loss, thats why your speed is faster on wired.

What you need to do is get a wire connecting your room to his. Getting a second router will do nothing for you.
 
Which is why I suggested he get a switch seeing as how he has multiple devices and doesn't care if he's on the same network with the others.
 
Buy a switch instead

I agree with the point that you should use a switch instead of putting in another router. I have been troubleshooting for homenetworking users and it is quite painful to see them plug in a router behind a router, then they start complaining that their dsl speed is slow as molases. :eek:

A switch will give you enough jacks to plugin but a moderated connection. The speed will always be faster than your fastest wireless connection.

In our compound, I am the only person who is paying for dsl. The 23 other houses just connects through ethernet cables I have setup for the whole compound. No one complains that their internet connection is slow. [if they start complaining I will just remove their cable from my switch :D]

All these users are connected to 3 switches and the switch are connected to my single modem/router. :p
 
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