Hi folks,

I upgraded yesterday to a 50 Meg Virgin Cable connection, and decided to stick with my 2910VG. The problem I am facing at the moment is that over ethernet my thoroughout goes down to around 20-30 Meg range, whereas on direct connection to the modem, I am getting 45+ Meg consistently.

Anything that I could do to change this ?

I am also using Bandwidth Management (not on my port though)!

I'm surprised you are getting that much! The 2910 is only rated to 15Mbps . In an internal test I got my 2900 (which is rated the same) up to just over 20Mbps but that is it! I think a new router will be in order perhaps a 2820 series or 2920 series.

NJH wrote: I'm surprised you are getting that much! The 2910 is only rated to 15Mbps . In an internal test I got my 2900 (which is rated the same) up to just over 20Mbps but that is it! I think a new router will be in order perhaps a 2820 series or 2920 series.

Any particular reason why it works so slow on ethernet ?

No idea. It is the design which presumably pre-dates generally available fast connections. Having said that it would still struggle with 20Mbps VM cable and totally fail if you use DoS Defense or QoS which are processor intensive.

I see, so if I were to upgrade, which model would be better ? I am not looking for VoIP or 3G dongle.

If you want a simple router, I would guess that the 2110 is the cheapest. It has the throughput (just). If you want to have the spare throughput, the 2920. It is up to you and depends what features you want.

If you want some real fun, get yourself one of the nettop type boxes (something low power based round the Intel Atom processor) with Gb ethernet and run something like ClearOS