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To you both my eternal thanks. I need to look at my internet connection. Thanks for being patient with me. Rich On 28 December 2017 at 15:52, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/12/17 09:30, Daniel Robinson wrote: >> Hi Rich. >> >> I'll try and break this down for you. >> >> Internal network : Transfer speeds UP TO 1Gbps (between internal devices) >> Internet Speed router side : Transfer Speeds UP TO 100Mbps. (between ALL >> devices and modem going out) >> Internet Speed in your area : UP TO 8.1Mbps Down, 2Mbps Up >> >> So your upload speed will always be 2Mbps to the internet from any >> device regardless of internal network wiring. >> >> Hope this helps somewhat. > > Daniel's done most of the clarification work for me (thanks chief) so > hopefully it's clearer now where the speed bottleneck is for your > network - it's the ISP and the broadband package you're paying for > firstly and then the slower 100Mbps connection from the old router into > the 1000Mbps device. Or at least, it was. > > It seems now that you've ditched the old modem (was it really just a > standalone unit?) and replaced it entirely with a new all-in-one unit > that functions as your ADSL modem, router, wifi basestation and has an > integrated 4 port switch. Presumably it has a Netgear or D-Link badge on > it. "Hubs" are no longer a thing thank god - the 4 ports on your new > gadget are full switching ports and we refer to these devices as > "switches" to distinguish them. We all knew what you meant to be fair > but hubs and switches are very different things. > > So now if I'm still following along correctly, you've only got the new > all-in-one box between your wired and wifi clients and the big bad > internet. All wired machines will be running at 1Gbps internally and > your wifi clients at whatever speeds are negotiated depending on the > 802.11 standards supported (A/B/G/N/AC etc) between them and the > basestation. > > Finally, all internet traffic is shunted through your ADSL connection at > whatever speeds your ISP provides, which Daniel helpfully says are > ~8Mbps/2Mbps wherever you live. And of course it doesn't even matter if > you replace your internal networking with a Â40k Brocade converged > 100Gbps switch: nothing, including Dropbox uploads, is going out of your > network faster than 2Mbps because that is your hard limit. > > Does this all make sense now? > > Cheers > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- Kind Regards Richard Brown 07747 343637 http://gucu.org.uk/ http://littlebigfoot.org.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq