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[Jagblade]

Okay folks, this has been going on for a while so if any of you would be so kind I'd like some advice on what the issue could be. To begin I'll tell you my little story about my laptop and then my gaming desktop. Once I first got my laptop, I was using my neighbor's wi-fi (with their permission of course.) My download speeds were between 500-900kbps (estimated) each time, this is when the signal was maxed out with a 54.0 Mbps reading. When it was red with only 11 Mbps, my Download speed was 200-300kbps.

Eventually I get enough money and decide that I'll get a wireless router of my own to used, I set my sights on the DGL-4500 because of it's promises for great speeds and stable gaming, I figure that coupled with a Cox High Speed Internet connection I'll be fine. A note here, my Cox connection uses the value package, "up to" 1.5 Mbps. My old desktop hard wired into the modem has a 500-700 Kbps download speed when my gaming desktop and laptop are on and connected to the DGL. Anyway, I did not yet own my gaming desktop and was on the laptop, I set everything up, the gaming router is in the same room as my laptop. I get excited to see the signal completely maxed out at 54.0 Mbps again.

Then on my first test download (and every download after it) I notice something. My download speed won't pass 103Kbps! How is this? My neighbor's when in the red gave me up 300kbps at all times...Even running a cable between the router and laptop didn't improve things. About a year later I get my mammoth Gaming PC. 12 GB ddr3 @ 1600mhz, i7 720 @ 2.66, and an EVGA X85 motherboard with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Surely this will let my downloads surpass the issues before...right? No, I run a Cat6 cable from my gaming PC into the router, and guess what? No speed improvement at all! Even when every other connected device is turned off, my Download speed won't go over 103kbps.

At this very moment my stats are this: Packets sent- 5,286,969 / Recieved- 34,012,266

That looks odd...my connection is also reading at full strength and as a 1gbps connection, can anyone help me figure out why things are going so slow? Anything advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Not sure if this is a key detail, but my High speed Internet line and modem are...antiques... The modem is a Surfboard SB5120, 6 years old, as is the cable line.

[Rustie18]

well if u can still get a refund get a refund for this product. I had it for 4 days and it whent downhill i just sent it back to new egg and got my money back. I though the same thing about this product but it crashed on me every hour its annoying having to unplug the router and plug it back in just better getting ur money back.

[Magno99900]

That Cox value pack pretty much makes out at 180-220kB/s if you want 500-700kB/s step up to at least a 5meg service.

[Jagblade]

As my post said, My computer hard wired into the modem already gets around 500kbps. But even when it's off, My gaming PC across the room, that is plugged into the router, that is plugged into the modem, will not go over 103kbps.

[Reinvented]

I think you are confused about your terminology here...

Theres Kilobits and Kilobytes. 

Kilobits is denoted by a lowercase "bps".  So, it will look like Kbps.
Kilobytes is denoted by an uppercase "Bps". It will look like this: KBps.

Kilobits works in thousands, whereas Kilobytes works in hundreds.

Your connection states it's rated for 1.5 Megabits per second.  If you take 1500 and divide it by 8, you will get your speed in Kilobytes per second.

That roughly comes out to 187.5 Kilobytes per second.  Your connection is fine. 

[EJeanmaire]

I think you are confused about your terminology here...

Theres Kilobits and Kilobytes. 

Kilobits is denoted by a lowercase "bps".  So, it will look like Kbps.
Kilobytes is denoted by an uppercase "Bps". It will look like this: KBps.

Kilobits works in thousands, whereas Kilobytes works in hundreds.

Your connection states it's rated for 1.5 Megabits per second.  If you take 1500 and divide it by 8, you will get your speed in Kilobytes per second.

That roughly comes out to 187.5 Kilobytes per second.  Your connection is fine. 

This.

I hate to say it man, but that's all a 1.5 Megabit connection will give you, 187.5 Kilobyte theoretical max minus the other slobs in your neighborhood Cox makes you share that line with, minus the connection distance and slow down through the internet to wherever you are benchmarking your numbers on.

[Jagblade]

Ah, crap then, okay it's not so bad. At least I can actually connect. Anyway, I'll probably just invest in a completely new line and modem for this PC, maybe go for their preferred package. Up to 10mb doesn't sound all that bad. Thanks for the assistance guys.