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test your network
« on: July 12, 2010, 09:09:23 PM »
wow, today I purchased a netgear switch for splitting the internet to my pc and xbox. I hooked it up and all went fine. We have extremely slow broadband, today I realized why. I decided to test my old hub against this new switch, turns out the old hub was cutting my potential speed in more than half. I went from an average speed test of 3.54Dl to this

which is a friggen amazing speed compared to what I was used to, so guys my point of this hole thing is, if you have slow internet, check your network components and wiring. I am so happy youtube 1080p loads without buffering, awesome.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 09:36:01 PM »
You went from a hub to a switch? Yes hubs are old man... Firstly hubs run a half duplex which means that communication is one way your PC is sending or receiving but not at the same time. Also a hub is a single collision domain which means that when data from one port is put on the wire all the other ports broadcast that data whether the device connected to a port requested the data or not. This causes collisions to occur which will also slow down your connection...

Switches on the other hand will operate at full duplex allowing your PC to send and receive at the same time effectively allowing (if you had a 100mb port) 100mb to send and 100mb to receive at the same time, although that's not how ethernet frames work.

Also on a switch each port is its own collision domain so if you had an 8 port switch you would have 8 collision domains -vs- the 1 collision domain you had with the hub (regardless of how many ports it had). Also switches remember Layer 2 information IE your PC's MAC address. Switches use MAC address tables to remember where everyone is.. think of a road map... this way switches know how or what port to pass traffic to...

There is so much more but thats a quick look into hubs and switches...
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Re: test your network
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 11:54:43 PM »
interesting, I should do a bit of research. Right now I am just please with my interent speed :D.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2010, 12:34:22 AM »


/brag
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Re: test your network
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2010, 01:48:51 AM »
triedge, how much do you pay for that?!?!?!?!
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Re: test your network
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2010, 01:53:07 AM »
sorry guys:
/brag

lol the dl is usually 90mb/s, btw this is my college.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2010, 02:16:17 AM »
upload is... higher?  wtf?

nevermind my ability to read was retarded at the time i posted this XD

GhoSt: No it wasn't I changed the speed test :), look down at tri's post
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Re: test your network
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2010, 04:10:35 AM »
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Re: test your network
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2010, 07:54:46 AM »


i think we're getting FiOS soon... should i be excited or worried?
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Re: test your network
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2010, 11:46:41 PM »
Quote from: Kilokk on July 19, 2010, 01:48:51 AM
triedge, how much do you pay for that?!?!?!?!
$30 a month.  I love having fiber optic in my neighborhood :D


Quote from: GhoSt_Death on July 19, 2010, 01:53:07 AM
sorry guys:
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lol the dl is usually 90mb/s, btw this is my college.

Doesn't count if it's not at your house.  Of course you college is going to have better internet then us.   There's like a million students paying for it after all.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2010, 06:11:51 AM »
look at the ping, and server location. he is sitting on top of a T1, or posibly a bank of them
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Re: test your network
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2010, 07:06:42 AM »
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Re: test your network
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 03:04:58 PM »
Don't make fun of me XD I live in a house outside of a small town in western PA. Basic DSL was my only option lol.

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Re: test your network
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2010, 03:27:49 PM »
Quote from: Monk3y on July 22, 2010, 03:04:58 PM
Don't make fun of me XD I live in a house outside of a small town in western PA. Basic DSL was my only option lol.



hey dont fill bad its better then mine
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Re: test your network
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2010, 03:37:42 PM »

*i usualy get 25mb/s but im running on wifi right now haha
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Re: test your network
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2010, 03:45:25 PM »
Quote from: gunner7553 on July 22, 2010, 03:27:49 PM
hey dont fill bad its better then mine


You sir have boosted my self esteem :P
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Re: test your network
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2010, 05:12:49 PM »
Quote from: Monk3y on July 22, 2010, 03:45:25 PM
You sir have boosted my self esteem :P

good to here, got any suggestions on how to make it faster?
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Re: test your network
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2010, 05:28:30 PM »
Call your ISP and see if they have any packages you can upgrade too? I just recently upgraded mine from 3MB to 6MB lol.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2010, 05:51:24 PM »
I did that I'm now at 7mb, its still slow.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2010, 07:25:06 PM »
check out mine
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Re: test your network
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2010, 08:18:15 PM »
lol this is mine when theres three on the enternet and watchin netflix on ps3 ill do another one when there no one
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Re: test your network
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2010, 04:57:14 PM »

/brag

AT&T<3

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Re: test your network
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2010, 07:10:08 PM »
wow and I thought my internet was horrible :P
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Re: test your network
« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2010, 02:46:34 AM »
wow I thought we were supposed to have the slowest internet in the world over here.
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Re: test your network
« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2010, 04:04:59 AM »
Quote from: Tri-edge on July 21, 2010, 11:46:41 PM
$30 a month.  I love having fiber optic in my neighborhood :D


i hate you...

i pay $50 for what i got, and it has NEVER been as fast as the test in my sig since that day... it averages at like 2Mbps

  all time low, kinda wondering what the HELL i was doing that night to eat all that bandwidth >.>
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Re: test your network
« Reply #25 on: July 28, 2010, 08:38:20 PM »


I pay ~$45. Probably higher than that cause i'm on wifi g right now...
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Re: test your network
« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2010, 10:11:03 PM »

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Re: test your network
« Reply #27 on: July 28, 2010, 10:12:16 PM »
Quote from: Kilokk on July 25, 2010, 04:04:59 AM
i hate you...

i pay $50 for what i got, and it has NEVER been as fast as the test in my sig since that day... it averages at like 2Mbps

  all time low, kinda wondering what the HELL i was doing that night to eat all that bandwidth >.>
to clarify it's $30 a month for the first year then it's $60.  So right now I'm paying half ($15) but after the first year it will be $60. The thing is we are running uncapped.   We aren't using comcast's modems, We have our own (unhacked) and since it's not theirs they don't know how to cap the speed so we get everything.   They set it up like that and it's still working great.  :D
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