Belkin N1 MIMO Wireless Router

[Dooley]

I have just purchased a Belkin N1 MIMO Router and it is supposed to run at 300MBPS supposedly on the box but on wired it only says 100MBPS on XP and it is no better than the older 54MBPS one. Is there a setting or something to speed it up or so. It also loads Ebay very slow which is no good for me as I sell alot of stuff on there. Can anyone Help?






Thanks Tom

[calumc]

Are you running on a 100mbit NIC by any chance?

[Dooley]

Whats NIC? Network card or something?

[calumc]

Yep network card. You'd need to have a gigabit NIC and cat7 cable to take full advantage of the 300mbps

[Dooley]

Ah ok thanks, I am using the on-board network one at the minute and i doubt its a gigabyte speed. Ill have a look into pci ones.



Cheers Tom

[calumc]

For the sake of 200 mbit i doubt its worth your while, you wont notice much difference in your internet speeds, you'd be talking milliseconds.

[Dooley]

Oh ok I dont think i'll bother then. Do you know why it takes a really long time to load Ebay up then? it takes alot longer than every other site which ive notices some improvements on and it also doesnt let me play some of my online games no more like World Of Warcraft, it kicks me off after 10 seconds of being on and shows my ping as 0MS.


Tom

[jdbnsn]

Have you contacted tech support and FAQ's on Belkin's website? Sometimes they have enough common questions about a game that they post instructions for that specific problem. If not, they should be able to tell you what is going on. It may be a port forwarding issue. The ebay situation sounds more like it's on Ebay's side if it is the only site acting up.

[mtekk]

Yep network card. You'd need to have a gigabit NIC and cat7 cable to take full advantage of the 300mbps

You mean Cat6, and in most cases good old Cat5e will do Gigabit.

Anyways when it says 300mbps MIMO, that is talking about the wireless part of the router, and you'll never actually see speeds of 300mbps, 270mbps is more realistic for 802.11n (that's all wireless). From Belikin's product page (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=273526) (under the specs tab), the N1 has four 10/100Base-T ports for Ethernet, that's why you only see 100mpbs in XP, that's the fastest the wired portion will go. Wireless routers typically only advertise the wireless speed unless they have Gigabit Ethernet ports, which it will state right on the box, otherwise the Ethernet ports are assumed to be 10/100Base-T.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Those routers only get 300mbps on wireless as mtekk says. My dad just got one last Thursday (after I took him shopping lol). The fastest cable will run is 100mbps but you have the advantage of having very low fluctuations in speeds. The new N1 routers and cards have 3 antennas so you can stream HD video wirelessly, only N1 routers support this. I am having trouble with mine however with a N1 wireless cards and am just about to submit a post about it.