Stuff I Do

I have Comcast for my home internet connection and I have the 16Mb pipe. The cable modem and wireless router sit in the basement and we normally work from the main floor. The problem is that I am not seeing any speed at all on my connection. And by no speed I mean 3Mb down and 400k upload.

If I go straight from the cable modem to my laptop I get over 20Mb down and 1.5Mb up. Crap that kind of points to the router as my problem. It is a Linksys router running the OpenWRT. The reason I am using this firmware instead of the stock is that I wanted to get rid of my internal servers to save power and the last service I needed to provide was internal DNS. OpenWRT gives me that ability. Since I have no other routers anymore to try out, I can either downgrade the firmware to the stock release from Linksys or buy a new router and see what kind of speed I get there.

Arrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

UPDATE
So running some tests all through the same router with the same OpenWRT software build on the router.

I have two laptops I am testing with and here are the results:
HP Pavilion ZV5000
Wireless speed: 6Mb
Wired speed: 13Mb

MacBook Pro
Wireless speed: 4Mb
Wired speed: 13Mb

The uploads were all around the 400K speed.

Looks like I need to find a way to tweak the wireless speeds and the upload speeds.

UPDATE #2
On the router I disable the G-Mode Protection settings.
HP Pavilion ZV5000 now at 7Mb
MacBook Pro now at 10Mb

UPDATE #3
Now on the router I have set it to only G mode and got rid B settings.
HP Pavilion ZV5000 no at 9Mb
MacBook Pro now at 11Mb

Don’t think I have any more B mode devices anymore, but that could be an issue if I come across a long forgotten device.

UPDATE #4
Got my uploads figured out now. No longer capped at 400k I am now getting 1.5Mb uploads.
Apparently even though the QoS Service is disabled, there is a setting called QoS Overhead Calculation which by default is on. Once this setting is also disabled, everything uploads quickly.

After all this I kind of feel bad for gripping at the Comcast people on the phone when it was not them that hosed the connection. {blushes} I hate being that jerk.