Any computer gurus that can help with my router?

[afultz075]

My Dell Truemobile router stopped working the other week and since Dell doesn't have tech support in English I went out and bought a new Linksys Network Everywhere router (in the last few weeks i've had the modem hooked right into my laptop).

Installation went by without a hitch and all seemed well until I opened Internet Explorer. It's suddenly like i'm back to 56k hell only 20 times worse. Now, websites load at slower than a snail's pace, if I wait 3 or 4 minutes the website still hasn't loaded. I switched over to my desktop, same thing. I hook the computer up directly to the modem and everything is nice and fast like normal, so it's not my ISP's fault. I tried turning off window's firewall with no success at a faster connection and now i'm stumped.

So why would a router make my connection so horrendously slow? Is this thing just a POS I need to take back or is there anything I can try?

[Pacifist_Farmer]

Suggestion: follow the instructions for plugging in and turning on the system.

I believe your suppose to connect all of the systems without power, and then plug them in/ turn them on starting with the modem and working towards the computer.

Last time I was have a connectivity problem do this over again cleared it all up.

[afultz075]

Tried booting up everything sequencially but it's still very slow.

The connection is there, the speed isn't.

[datapimp69]

Tried booting up everything sequencially but it's still very slow.

The connection is there, the speed isn't.

how long have you left the modem unpluged before you turned the router on?

some ISP's take a while to pick up and register the new MAC address of the router and run the connection slow untill it does.

try leaving the modem unpluged for like 2-5 min before you power them up... modem then router.

[afultz075]

Like 15 seconds or so.

I tried your suggestion, I unplugged everything, waited 10 minutes, plugged the router in, waited another minute, and turned the router an PC on. Still getting extremely slow speeds.

[maxama10]

well
to start with you should go with a different browser (firefox,netscape,mozilla,opera). and no sorry i cant help any more than that

[Jaan]

how long have you left the modem unpluged before you turned the router on?

some ISP's take a while to pick up and register the new MAC address of the router and run the connection slow untill it does.

try leaving the modem unpluged for like 2-5 min before you power them up... modem then router.

The same thing happens with the MAC address when you switch to a new modem ... it runs very slow until the ISP puts the new MAC address into their computers as authorized. The thing is, the ISP doesn't magically pick up a new MAC address, you have to pick up the phone, call them up, answer a couple of security questions and give them the new MAC address.

[afultz075]

How do I go about finding what my new MAC address is?

[pointm@n]

Your router doesn't have a MAC address that your ISP cares about. The only MAC address that your ISP cares about is your modem and you said that works fine because when you bypass the router and go directly into the modem it works. Correct me if I'm wrong on that part.

Have you checked the configuration web site on your modem (usually something like 192.168.0.1 or something similar) and checked to see if maybe your router is hard set to 10mbps instead of 100mbps or AUTO?

Have you tried to update the firmware of the router?

[afultz075]

Haven't found any firmware for it, I couldn't even find the model number listed on the linksys site.

[Hairball]

FYI: Linksys uses 192.168.1.1 for their router configurations. I don't know if the Network Everywhere ones do though.

[Miscue]

It's broken.

[maxama10]

didnt you say it was dell not linksys? oh and btw Cisco sucks...

[Hexis]

oh and btw Cisco sucks...

Yeah, that's why something like 95% of packets on the net touch a Cisco router at some point.


afultz075, what kind of connection to your ISP is there?

[afultz075]

What kind of connection is there? Not quite sure what you mean by that, but it's Verizon DSL and right now it's connected at 100.0 Mbps connected right to the modem.