Router bottleneck?

[TheCake]

I am fortunate enough to have a 100 Mb Up and Down speed in my area, but i recently got a new Belkin AC900 DB router. I am connected to it via ethernet cable, but when i run a speed test i only get about 70 down and 60 up. I'm pretty sure this is a router issue as i used to have a linksys e3200 that would give me 95 down and 90 up on a speedtest, but unfortunately it had stopped working. So is there anyway to speed this up? or did i just pick a bad router?

[Ssoele]

Try DD-WRT on it, might work.

But if your really want up your performance, get an old PC and install pf-sense on it.

[KingLinkTiger]

I am fortunate enough to have a 100 Mb Up and Down speed in my area' date=' but i recently got a new Belkin AC900 DB router. I am connected to it via ethernet cable, but when i run a speed test i only get about 70 down and 60 up. I'm pretty sure this is a router issue as i used to have a linksys e3200 that would give me 95 down and 90 up on a speedtest, but unfortunately it had stopped working. So is there anyway to speed this up? or did i just pick a bad router?[/quote']

It would seem that your router is your bottleneck. If you are trying to get the most out of your bandwidth I would go with Ssoele's suggestion and run an old PC with pfSense on it as your router. This would be substantially better than any consumer router on the market, and plus there is a ton of customization options.

[Whaler_99]

Ya, a 100 up/down is a lot more then most home connections and most consumer units won't be able to handle it well. Another option I will throw out there is Untangle - same thing, uses a PC to act as a firewall...

[LargeGeek]

The best advice I can think to add other than rolling your own like Whaler_99 mentioned (I rolled a Smoothwall for a while ran in a virtual machine on my server, but that is another tale for another time)...is to make sure whatever you replace your router with has Gigabit ports on both the LAN ports AND on the WAN(Internet) port. This is a good way to ensure that it has enough power to push that data around. After that you could begin knitpicking actual processing power & features of models that at least meet that requirement.

The AC900 does have Gigabit LAN, but I could not find anything saying whether or not the WAN port was Giga or Fast. It is usually called out pretty loudly when a I don't think it will be THAT soon.