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[Seran]

Okay, so I recently bought a house, so am finally where I can get decent internet connections.  I got CableOne 10 mb/s set up, and I was perfectly happy with it (speeds range from 7.5 mb/s up to 11 or so depending on traffic, which is plenty for me and also the best I can get here).  However, that's with my modem ran directly to my PC, when I put my router in the loop, it drops down to 2.5 mb/s, never more than that.  

I've tried turning off the router's build in firewall, NAT filtering, Some other stuff, haven't tried DMZ yet.  Also tried firmware update on the router.

Maybe net gear is just shit?  I guess I shouldn't have bought the cheapest one wal-mart had.  I should've known better, was just tired of not having XBoxlive because of no router.

Edit:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_chart/Itemid,189/

While my router's not on the list, I see a lot of the NetGear ones do horrible.

[Teo McDohl]

I had this problem with a brand new Linksys router.  My speeds were fine, then they'd suddenly drop to around 2Mbps.  I was typically getting 20Mbps.  Thankfully, a firmware update fixed that issue.

That being said, I haven't really trusted D-Link and Netgear for a while.  In my line of work, I see D-Link switches and routers experience bad ports all the time.  I don't think you have a straight-up performance issue.  I think there's something screwy going on.  If it's new, I'd return it and look for a different model. 

[Deusstyles]

Personally I've gone through too many problems with linksys routers, the last two had were crap they never put enough memory in them for what I use them for (tho to be fare most people don't need a six port switch in their home) so my roommate went all apple fan boy and got an Air Port Extreme, thus far I have had zero problems with it.

On a related note, I totally want to be able to justify this and these

[Teo McDohl]

Just so you know, Linksys is now owned by Cisco.  They turned the brand into their small business line of products.

[Seran]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168050

Going to give this one a shot, its rated very well by the testing site I linked above.

I guess I never ran into issues before, my old internet was only 800 kbp/s so no issue with any router out there.

And definitely returning the netgear.

[Deusstyles]

Just so you know, Linksys is now owned by Cisco.  They turned the brand into their small business line of products.

Yeah I know, Volkswagen owns Porsche but while Volkswagens are nice cars Porsche are over priced slide monkeys with engines that leek oil and blow up more than Wile E Coyote.

[Teo McDohl]

Just so you know, Linksys is now owned by Cisco.  They turned the brand into their small business line of products.

Yeah I know, Volkswagen owns Porsche but while Volkswagens are nice cars Porsche are over priced slide monkeys with engines that leek oil and blow up more than Wile E Coyote.

Now I'd like to hear why you know this about Porsche.  Also, while Volkswagen owns Porsche, it's a fiscal ownership only.  Cisco did more than simply buy Linksys add it to the product line. 

[Deusstyles]

First I know that about Porsches because my friend works on them as a race car mechanic and he complains about having to fix them after they've blown their engine after each race (he doesn't have to do that for the other cars). As for the slide monkeys all you have to do is watch a GT2 race and you'll see the rear ends are looser than <insert exploitive hear>. Finely them leaking oil is just the way their engines are designed I don't know but thats how they're do it.

Regaurdles of what changes have been made to Linksys over the years they're still crap routers. If I still had DSL I'd be using my 2Wire but alas quest even with FTTN isn't worth the headache. Again this opinion is likely because of what I have on my network, all I know is as soon as I went over 700 or so sessions (even though the table is 1024) it started to slow down and drop packets, and I hates my packets getting dropped.

[Teo McDohl]

I've never seen packet loss on any Linksys I've admin'd (that was functioning properly).  Of course, most of the time, I'm working with managed Cisco switches and routers.  But those Linksys that I've worked with, they work like champs.  The one in my house works well, even with 4 wireless PCs and the Wii.  That being said, every product line has a bad apple, or a model that one should steer clear of.  The older Linksys SRX routers were freaking monsters.

I liked the Porsche story. 

[Omegamatt Shadowstar]

I feel like something is right with the internet now that Doos is back, openly defying the spelling and grammar nazis.

[Seran]

Funny analogy with Porsche, if it weren't for Porsche (the Dr.), then there wouldn't be Volkswagen.  Or the other way around either, if it weren't for the Volkswagen project, there wouldn't be Porsche.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen

First history segment.

[Deusstyles]

If it went for Xerox we would have a mouse. Apple invented the GUI my ass.

[Teo McDohl]

If it went for Xerox we would have a mouse. Apple invented the GUI my ass.

The mouse was invented in 1952, originally.  The Xerox PARC team simply found a use for it.  And while the PARC team did invent the GUI, they couldn't do a damn thing with it.  The Xerox Suits didn't see the value; it was Apple that took the GUI and made it a commercial success.  So while PARC did invent the GUI, it was Apple that brought the GUI to the spotlight (and made Microsoft want to copy it).

[Deusstyles]

I never said they invented it, but it's where Steve jobs first saw a GUI and co-opted the idea, and we'd never have it without Xerox PARC. It doesn't matter it's just a good thing they did, though there is something comforting about a command prompt.

[Seran]

It's prompt, and you're in command.  Very comforting.