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[kracey]

Just wondering if the max amount of your internet is suppose to be always on full or only going up with use.

I only get 3072 kbits/sec download nad 96kbit/sec upload (Sucks, but that is the best I can get in my area, very small town with local telephone company as the only option)

I was playing Modern Warfare 2 earlier and the usage never went over 23 kbits/sec according to the router and the upload not over 18 kbits/sec.

Is this normal or is there something I can do to increase/maximize my speed/connection

Highest I have gotten my Wired line to spike on the router lcd screen is 467 kbits/sec

[FurryNutz]

It should be near or max to what your ISP is giving you for your package. So if you got to speedtest.net or some other testing sit. The speed should be at least close most of the time. Given there will be other factors, the may inhibit this from time to time. Generally it should be up there. I've got a 10Mb down connection and generally see 8-10 most of the time. However I'm on a cable system here.

[kracey]

Another thing that is weird is with my old cheap router i had 87% signal at the low to 100% signal almost all the time. With this new router on my PS3 its showing a signal rating of like 55% and this one has 3 antenna's (spelling haha took me like 10 minutes to come up with that can not think how to spell it atm)

I was reading the PS3 guide and it says that if my modem has an internal router it will not matter if I set the ports open for the PS3 or that is what I got from the wording. I would just disable the modem router on my own, but my ISP provider was pretty clear not to, so I want to do what they say.

So pretty much, i'm taking it that I am not going to get full performance from this router b/c of it. All I wanted anyways was a better/fast/stronger connection and i'm thinking about just running a wired line to it and that would most likely solve my issues. Thanks again for the help, but i'll probably just end up sending the router back tomorrow.

[FurryNutz]

is the 4500 running mixed mode on wireless? If so, I would run G only mode at 2.4Ghz. If you don't have any devices that need AB or N, the you don't really need to have the router broadcasting something that you won't be using. If your gaming over wireless, it's actually preferred to run wired.

[kracey]

yeah i know wired is better in most cases, but didnt want to have to run the wire over to the ps3 (about 50 ft of cord) I will try what ya said about the G only at 2.4 only thing that uses wireless is my ps3, wii, and a Printer.  so that may help, I ran a wire over a little bit ago and did see my connection go up to full bars (Dark green at times)

Do you think opening ports and giving the ps3 the static ip address would help even if I haven't cut off the internal router of the modem?

[FurryNutz]

wouldn't hurt...I have everything set up that way on my sytem. Check out the gaming and gamefuel sticky..I did it for xbox however most of it applies to all gaming consoles. Give G mode only a try and see how it does.

[kracey]

Should I leave the channel on auto scan or is one better then the other? Set up the static IP, gamefuel and port forwarding so I'm going to try it out with both the wired connection and the wireless connection and see if I notice any difference.

Gonna have to wait til tomorrow though since it's 10:40, feel like an old man 26 and have a set bed time for myself for work purposes haha. Thanks again for all the help.

[FurryNutz]

try auto scan for now...done use port forwarding right not, just use gamefuel settings only. Let us know old man of 26. Wish I was your age.