Gigabit Wired Router Recommendations?

[MilesAhead]

Yeah, back then you had to watch out for slow internal modems that emulated the COM1 port. I remember I got an add-in card that had a 32 byte hardware buffer that was rated at 56KB/sec and even had an experimental mode for twice that if you pulled a jumper. Connect a USR external 56k modem and you were flyin'!!

[doctorhardware]

That is if you had a good phone line. I use to connect at 18k which was a good day. Most of the time I would connect at 9600 a snails pace.

[MilesAhead]

Yeah, nothing more frustrating than repeated carrier drops. Glad I go through the network card now.

[PurpleDemon]

Funny, I remember re-running my phone line with thicker copper when I got my top of the line US Robotics 56k modem. Only got to about 42k, but that was super then.

Now I feel deprived going from 15MBS to 6 MBS just by moving cities.

[doctorhardware]

What a PIA someone hacked my router. Over half of the settings were changed I just got done fixing what was changed. My wife's laptop would not connect to the router. Had to turn back on Use Router as DHCP Server. It was turned off and all the ip addresses were all changed. I have been working on and off since noon. Well I have it finally fixed and changed the log on password again. So let see if this happens again. I am also going to save the router configuration file. I hate it when something like a router gets hacked. I had to use a back door to get back in to fix the router.

[UncasMS]

what kind of "back door" would that be?

setting it back to the defaults normally does the trick enabling you to use the standard password

[doctorhardware]

Well I pulled the flash ram chip and found the address where the password is stored. Changed the password back to the default and installed it back into the router. I used a eprom programmer to read the chip and reprogram the chip. I know that will not happen again. That does not nesassarly reset the pasword back to the default.

[UncasMS]

sounds like a

[MilesAhead]

One more question guys. I have the gigabit network going but one side receives almost twice as fast as the other. The Vista64 side with the faster HD actually receives only 1/2 as fast as the Vista32 side. I'm not sure on some of the network settings. Should I have Flow Control enabled on both cards? In the advanced settings the buffers were already at the max so I can't increase them any.

Copying large videos one direction I'm getting between 44 to 48 MB/sec using TeraCopy.
The other direction seems to be in the range 12 to 27 MB/sec.

Any hints?

[MilesAhead]

Whenever I have added another network card on a system that has integrated network adapter I have always ended up with an additional network connection rather than a replaced one.

burrell, I got things going but I'm wondering why push is faster than pull?
I've seen a few other similar posts on the web but no solutions. Seems the Vista64 Gigabit interface can Send a lot faster than it can Receive.

If I "push" big files from the Vista32 PC with PCI gigabit card, they copy @30 MB/sec, but if I "pull" the same files from the Vista64 side I get only 22 MB/sec but if I copy onto the PCI machine from that machine the copy is routinely 44 to 48 MB/sec. I'm really bewildered here!

[doctorhardware]

That does not make any sense. I wonder if it is something to do with Vista 64. I would think that Vista 64 should be faster?

[MilesAhead]

It is really weird. If anything I'd like it to be the other way around so I can lob stuff over to the quad core for processing. I played around with TeraCopy buffer setting and it's not too bad. On the low side with big files it's about like copying to my external USB drive. Still I don't understand why going the other way I can get over 50 MB/sec. It would be nice to get that both ways.

[PurpleDemon]

Bewildered is a good word for that. I would think Vista 64 would be faster as well.

I have never used 64bit Vista. I would be interested what atifsh's take would be on this.

I would just be guessing at this point. Did you disable your integrated one?

[MilesAhead]

Bewildered is a good word for that. I would think Vista 64 would be faster as well.

I have never used 64bit Vista. I would be interested what atifsh's take would be on this.

I would just be guessing at this point. Did you disable your integrated one?

I have the integrated one disabled in the network settings. I still have the wire on it. For some reason my networking has always been like that. Back in Win98 if I "pulled" a file from the other machine I got an access violation. But if I "pushed" the same file over it copied ok. Really bizarre. My 100 Mbs network was symmetrical though. I don't know enough about the settings so I just did trial and error and copied big files with TeraCopy as a benchmark. If I could get the slow side up to @35 MB/sec then I could live with that. After all, when I copy files to my external it's about 23 MB/sec max.

[MilesAhead]

Looks like I have to choose my file copy tool depending on which way I'm dragging and dropping! If I "pull" a big file onto the Left PC with TeraCopy I can get 44 to 50 MB/sec. In the other direction for some reason TeraCopy does poorly. But I just found that in the "slow" direction if I use the regular shell left button drag & drop it's showing @35 MB/sec on the test 700 MB file. That's not so bad. Just have to remember which way I'm copying and use the right gadget.

It's nice when backing up across the network since now I can max out the external USB drive. The network isn't the bottleneck anymore.