Router Speed/WAN Connection?

Does the WAN port of your wired router (where the cable modem plugs into the
router) directly effect your speed? For example, my old router has a 10 Mbps
WAN port and 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports that you hook the computers directly to.
Does the WAN speed of 10 Mbps make me unable to reach a speed higher than 10
Mbps for all my LAN connections? I am asking because I recently upgraded my
speed to 20 Mbps and was wondering if I need to invest in a new wired router.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:38:14 -0700, Dan R
<DanR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does the WAN port of your wired router (where the cable modem plugs into the
>router) directly effect your speed? For example, my old router has a 10 Mbps
>WAN port and 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports that you hook the computers directly to.
> Does the WAN speed of 10 Mbps make me unable to reach a speed higher than 10
>Mbps for all my LAN connections? I am asking because I recently upgraded my
>speed to 20 Mbps and was wondering if I need to invest in a new wired router.

The WAN port will limit the speed of each LAN computer connection to
10 Mbps. To get higher speed, replace your router with one that has a
faster WAN port.
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The PC's will be limited to 10Mbps for web access, LAN access will still be
100Mbps.

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"Steve Winograd" <bc070521m@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> The WAN port will limit the speed of each LAN computer connection to
> 10 Mbps. To get higher speed, replace your router with one that has a
> faster WAN port.
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> Best Wishes,
> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>
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and to add to this, you would never get 10 because of the overhead.
the 7.2 you've been seeing (per the other thread) is about what
you'd expect over a 10 meg WAN port.

suggest you look to setting the NIC speed as I suggested in the
other thread and connecting directly to the cable modem to see if
things improve. reboot the cable modem as well.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:38:14 -0700, Dan R
<DanR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does the WAN port of your wired router (where the cable modem plugs into the
>router) directly effect your speed? For example, my old router has a 10 Mbps
>WAN port and 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports that you hook the computers directly to.
> Does the WAN speed of 10 Mbps make me unable to reach a speed higher than 10
>Mbps for all my LAN connections? I am asking because I recently upgraded my
>speed to 20 Mbps and was wondering if I need to invest in a new wired router.
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Hi
If your Internet connection is 20Mb/sec. you need a new Router that its WAN
port is rated above 20Mb/sec.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"Dan R" <DanR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does the WAN port of your wired router (where the cable modem plugs into
> the
> router) directly effect your speed? For example, my old router has a 10
> Mbps
> WAN port and 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports that you hook the computers directly
> to.
> Does the WAN speed of 10 Mbps make me unable to reach a speed higher than
> 10
> Mbps for all my LAN connections? I am asking because I recently upgraded
> my
> speed to 20 Mbps and was wondering if I need to invest in a new wired
> router.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:02:40 -0400, "David B." <mail@nomail.net>
wrote:
>>>Does the WAN port of your wired router (where the cable modem plugs into the
>>>router) directly effect your speed? For example, my old router has a 10 Mbps
>>>WAN port and 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports that you hook the computers directly to.
>>> Does the WAN speed of 10 Mbps make me unable to reach a speed higher than 10
>>>Mbps for all my LAN connections? I am asking because I recently upgraded my
>>>speed to 20 Mbps and was wondering if I need to invest in a new wired router.
>>
>>The WAN port will limit the speed of each LAN computer connection to
>>10 Mbps. To get higher speed, replace your router with one that has a
>>faster WAN port.
>
>The PC's will be limited to 10Mbps for web access, LAN access will still be
>100Mbps.

Yes, that's what I meant, but I see that my reply could be interpreted
differently.

Thanks for clarifying it.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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