gigabit internet halp

[Mortdread]

I just signed up for centurylink's new gigabit fiber in the twin cities area of minneaota, they gave me a technicolor c2100t, when im wiring that (using cat5-e) to my linksys WRT1900ac v1, i previously had ddwrt installed on it, and couldnt get gigabit from the wan port, so i put the default firmware back on and still cant get gigabit. With some research I found that you can enable cut-through forwarding on some devices to fix the problem, that doesnt seem to be available on my equipment, and i dont know which device would need that enabled on. The other solution i found was to use IPv6 on the lan to wan connection from the modem to my router, but the c2100t doesnt support ipv6 lan

 

any ideas?

 

no I dont need gigabit lan, but I do need more than the 100 megabit its giving me for the stuff we do and with how many people connect to the internet here

 

(Im quite sure my home server would be capable of vm hosting pfsense if you can run that on a vm, but I dont want to have to go through the hassle of setting that up if possible)

 

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

[brandishwar]

Quick test: try a different cable. The cable you're using might not be all that great. Try a different Cat-5E cable, or if possible get a Cat6 cable to use. Not required for Gigabit, but they're generally better for it.

 

If the cable doesn't appear to be the problem, you can test to make sure the router is properly detecting the connection as Gigabit by connecting the Internet port on the router into the Gigabit port on a system. Gigabit ports should all be "auto-negotiate" now, meaning it should work automatically, though not instantly. If the ports on both ends light up as Gigabit, then the problem may be the modem. But I'm thinking the cable may be the concern.

[tt2468]

Sooo, why not just use the wrt1900ac without the c2100t? The only ways the c2100t can get wan is either ethernet or DSL, and you're probably not using dsl sooo...

[dlink377]

how about disable your linksys router function (DHCP server), and use it as wAP? I suppose gigabit networking works through normal LAN ports on your linksys.

[Mortdread]

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[Mortdread]

18 hours ago, brandishwar said:

Quick test: try a different cable. The cable you're using might not be all that great. Try a different Cat-5E cable, or if possible get a Cat6 cable to use. Not required for Gigabit, but they're generally better for it.

 

If the cable doesn't appear to be the problem, you can test to make sure the router is properly detecting the connection as Gigabit by connecting the Internet port on the router into the Gigabit port on a system. Gigabit ports should all be "auto-negotiate" now, meaning it should work automatically, though not instantly. If the ports on both ends light up as Gigabit, then the problem may be the modem. But I'm thinking the cable may be the concern.

the cable was the problem, he wired it gs/g/os/o/bs/b/brs/br

[Mortdread]

3 hours ago, dlink377 said:

how about disable your linksys router function (DHCP server), and use it as wAP? I suppose gigabit networking works through normal LAN ports on your linksys.

the cable was the issue, all good now

[brandishwar]

13 hours ago, Mortdread said:

the cable was the problem, he wired it gs/g/os/o/bs/b/brs/br

So you were using a custom cable instead of a pre-fab... Yeah that'd do it, especially if you don't TEST the cable after building it.

 

Glad to hear the fix was simple.