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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DGL-4500 => Topic started by: newfmp3 on July 14, 2009, 11:45:49 AM
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When I got this router a few months back, I simply connected 4 pc's, and all connected at 1gig right away.
Somehow, now everything connects at 100. There is no option in my windows machines now to turn on 1gig. I have a P5Q with a artheros 8121 10/100/1000 card on it. It won't allow me to choose 1000 unless it detects the router is capable of 1000. Like I said, originally i had this option now I don't
I did recently upgrade to 1.20. I'm wondering if something has changed somewhere. Any suggestions?
OH, and my wireless signal is horrible since 1.20. I can't connect at times, and others it just drops my wireless devices ( laptop, nokia n800, etc)
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it's these darn artheros cards. Leave them on Auto, and they seem to run at 1gig. Even though there is no option to manually select 1gig, they are indeed running at 1gig speeds
Tested 7 gig transfer between machines
Auto - 2 mins or so at ~68meg/sec
100 full - 20 mins ( never waited for the entire thing but it was SLOW) at less then 10meg/sec
On a side note, my wireless still runs like @#$@ since 1.20 firmware, having to reboot it every other day. And I want the old fashioned status lights back! This overpriced router with it's gimmicky OLED display doesn't show us what we actually NEED to see. I want status lights that indicate duplex mode, and connection status - ie 10/100/1000 full or half.
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Agreed with you. The OLED is nice but it doesn't provide enough information. It can't tell the connection speed of each LAN & WAN port which is the basic feature which most routers and switches can show different color of the little light. Due to the OLED screen can provide more information (programmable), it will be very nice if it can tell the MAC or DNS/NetBIOS name & the duplex status of each port.
Moreover, if the bandwidth status page can be enhanced that it can show Mbps & Kbps seperately for Send & Receive (like my previous Berlkin). Now, when I have tons of download, the OLED can tell let's say Receive is 5Mbps. However, it will show 0Mbps Send status which is meaningless & useless because I can confirm in Windows that it is being utilizing at 200~400Kbps upload.
Also, we can't reboot the router thru the operation of the OLED.