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Poor Internet Speeds
Hi Guys, I have Windows 7 Ultimate and a Dell Inspirion computer and 2 locations to work from. In my first location I have a cable modem and wireless router that I get 9.2Mb download speeds. When I move the laptop to my second location with an ADSL modem and linksys wireless router I get .5Mb download speeds.
Not to be too wordy - I thought I had an ISP issue so they upgraded my modem and their rep hooked his laptop to that modem directly and got 8.2Mb download speeds... .I was happy! Until I hooked my router back up and only saw .5Mb download. I contacted the router folks they did a firmware upgrade and recduced the MTU down to 1300 same issue - they said defective router.
Bought a new DLR 665 XtremeN router and same issue (using that now in my other location and still see over 9Mb download speeds there). Replaced cable between router and modem - same. Hooked my machine up directly to the new modem and had a few issues with RAPPPOE but got past those and once connected still only see .5Mb download speeds.
I am now at a loss. I grabbed some network traces with WireShark and they show lots of retrans packets ... I just recently read that this may be because that is how WireShark displays the data... don't know where else to turn. If anyone has any ideas I would certainly love to hear from you!
Thanks,
Ron