jonathanc Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Well hopefully some IT savvy dude could help me out here as I am really confused. I have a SKY router with 4 ethernet ports on the back. The router is reporting a raw downstream speed of 7643kbps. Now if I connect a laptop directly with ethernet to the router I get around 5.5Mbps in browser speed tests which is normal due to tcp/ip overheads etc. However, if I plug my homeplug into the 2nd ethernet port the speed goes down slightly. This is made worse when I plug in my 8 port gigabit switch where the speed drops to around 2Mbps! Keeeping in mind there's not other downloads going on and all that I did was physically plug more ethernet connections into the router... so I shouldn't be seeing such a drop? I have to add I use a very long (15m) ethernet cable to connect from modem by the master socket to my 8 port switch at the other end of the room. Am I going crazy or is there something wrong with my equipment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Well some people recommends only using the SKY router as a modem and use another cable modem as the "router" by enabling DHCP on the second router... Just wondering if this is a gimmick or will this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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