First post, by BigBodZod
Just installed a new WAP device as I have a couple of wireless notebooks and a Samsung Tablet that needed to be connected.
My old router was a Netgear FVS318G VPN router, wired only.
I found out later it has a WAN side bandwidth limitation of around 10MB even though the WAN port is a 10/100Mb port. By reading the Netgear forums many users found the same thing.
Speedtest.net always gave me about a 15 ~ 16 Mb down and about a 5 ~ 6 Mb up, didn't really think this was too bad on my Comcast 25Mb account until I connected up my new Asus RT-AC68U WAP.
Now Speedtest shows a 55 ~ 56 Mb downstream and 11 ~ 12 Mb upstream.
Now I realize the new router has a dual-core CPU in it but I really didn't think the CPU and the updated Asus-WRT OS would make that much of a difference.
I have not changed anything on the Comcast side of things other then this router, still have the same Arris VOIP/Data modem attached too.
Anybody else see increases like this by just swapping out their router ?
No matter where you go, there you are...