home internet setup question

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Hi,

I've found out that my home network is getting bottleneck at the wifi modem router, which is has 4x 100Mbps ports, to which my PCs are connected.

Mind you, i get almost 100Mbps through wifi transfer, so the wifi is not bottleneck yet.

I have spare gaming router which has 1Gbps ports. I was considering of buying cheap usb modem and connect the two. The only problem is that I don't know if my internet connection will get punished for something like that.
My max internet connection is 1 Mbps <- i think modem - usb - router connection should overall be way faster than 1Mbps . . .

thanks.
 
beers said:
Is 1 Mbps the ISP package you pay for?
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yeh, basically my internet line will go up to 1Mbps if i test it.

So i was thinking if i use cheap modem with usb connected to my gaming router i can get everything on 1Gbps network as the gaming router has 1Gbps ports.

i just don't want to slow down my internet by a cheap usb connection. I know usb 3 is ~300 odd Mbps but i seriously doubt that the modem will work on that speed.
 
Then it really doesn't matter what hardware you use as your WAN performance is limited by your ISP.

On the LAN side just hang the gig portion off of one of your LAN interface so it acts like a switch. Then clients on the secondary router will have gigabit to each other and you won't finagle around with some USB setup that won't work.

Alternatively just use the router with gigabit interfaces as your WAN facing device..
 
Do you do much on your LAN that requires you to have 1Gbps, or is everything just web-based? 1Mbps is extremely slow, even by DSL standards.

What internet service do you have? DSL? Cable? Generally with DSL you need to use specific modems provided by your ISP, while Cable is more lax and anything DOCSIS 3.0+ should work fine.

You can always add a gigabit wireless router and connect your current modem/combo unit to the WAN port on your new router. This would give you 1Gbps between your local devices.
 
Australian provider. 1Mbit is still on the slow side but not entirely unexpected.

On the modems, I've always found DSL providers to be extremely flexible on modems, you just need to be able to configure vpi/vci. But for cable, I need to call the company and get them to register the modem.
 
Cromewell said:
Australian provider. 1Mbit is still on the slow side but not entirely unexpected.

On the modems, I've always found DSL providers to be extremely flexible on modems, you just need to be able to configure vpi/vci. But for cable, I need to call the company and get them to register the modem.
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Seems to differ per region I guess. For cable here, you can buy any DOCSIS 3.0 modem but yes, you need to register that MAC address with your ISP. When I used to have DSL we needed to use only one brand as that was the only one which was supported by the ISP.
 
Geoff said:
Seems to differ per region I guess. For cable here, you can buy any DOCSIS 3.0 modem but yes, you need to register that MAC address with your ISP. When I used to have DSL we needed to use only one brand as that was the only one which was supported by the ISP.
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Boo, DSL has its own standards too :P

Usually if you can match your modem or module with the intended standard it should work with the provider. I used a WIC-1ADSL on a Cisco 2651XM on Verizon for a while, although they really freak out on the support side if you don't say the term Westell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_line#ADSL_standards
 
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