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hi
I am thinking of getting a internet router so i can share my broadband cable connection. My first question is, will this work: ethernet cable from cable modem, into the router. from the router, 2 ethernet cables in 2 diffrent ports, going to 2 computers. will this alow me to get the internet on 2 computers??Second question is: will this setup above slow me 150k cable modem down. at the moment, i can get about 18kb/s. would this half if both computers were downloading???
Thanks
Ashley
yes it will work using a router
obviously if two computers are on the internet at the same time it would slow it down a bit, but that depends on how much bandwidth they are takin up
for instance if yo uare downloading a file on one PC, then the other PC would experience a slower speed.
but to be honest you cant really notice tghe difference, especially if you only got to clients using the router
if i was you id go for it
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You should be getting better download speeds than that.
Perhaps tweaking some settings on your computer may help.
Go to this site and look for tweaking guides in the FAQ section for tweaks that you can apply.
DSL Reports.comHope this helps.
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Also, my understanding is that a router shoud transfer data at 100 Mbps via cable and and up to 54 Mbps wireless. This is much higher than your modem speed of 150kbps. So the router as such does not slow down your network!
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Using a router isn't going to slow down your broadband. You might have to tweak your NIC settings or router but using a router to route your network traffic is the best way to go.
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One thing to be aware of with a router. If one system is doing a big download it will try to use all of the Cable bandwidth during its download. This will make casual browsing very slow on the other system.
There is no concept of "dividing bandwidth" on small home small business routers. It is shared, and who ever has packets waiting at the ISP's end of the slow cable modem link will have access to the cable link first. During a download there will often be thirty or more 1500 byte packets setting in the queue at the ISP's end waiting to come down the slow link. If you make a request from the other system, its packet of data back to you will have to set in the queue behind all the other packets.
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