Long time reader of the forum, first time poster. And already a bit off-topic.
I have searched the net for a while and couldn't find anything, so I am hoping there are some network savvy people reading this as I am very frustrated at the moment.
We just recently upgraded our ISP from TWC (dedicated 5MB/5MB line) to a mix between ADSL and T3 (with 10MB/10MB). This is an office setup with 10 computers. The modem goes into a switch and then a 16-port router which connects the different workstations (mix of PC and MAC)
Now the upload rate on the TWC cable line to our servers in Europe were only about 50KB/s from Hawaii. A lot faster from the mainland and of course some tests we ran from within Europe they had some top speeds at 1MB/s.
We have done several tests and I got my home cable line up to about 70KB/s on the cable line.
We switched ISP about a 1 week and the upload rate is now 75KB/s on average on the PCs. And the 2 MACs (Imac and G5) get up to 289KB/s !!
Got 2 new Dell quad core today, which get close to the 280KB/s as well. So I went out and bought a new network card for the older PCs, but they are all stuck at 75KB/s. Router and NIC are all set to auto-negotiate.
The new provider ran tests within the lines and they all came back positive.
I tried the same CAT5e cable on all machines, which is in the same port of the router to get these different numbers.
Pretty lost at the moment, since we cannot figure out why there would be such a huge difference. And we really need the faster speeds.
Any ideas / suggestions of what can be done, or why this is happening???
Input is much appreciated.
I have searched the net for a while and couldn't find anything, so I am hoping there are some network savvy people reading this as I am very frustrated at the moment.
We just recently upgraded our ISP from TWC (dedicated 5MB/5MB line) to a mix between ADSL and T3 (with 10MB/10MB). This is an office setup with 10 computers. The modem goes into a switch and then a 16-port router which connects the different workstations (mix of PC and MAC)
Now the upload rate on the TWC cable line to our servers in Europe were only about 50KB/s from Hawaii. A lot faster from the mainland and of course some tests we ran from within Europe they had some top speeds at 1MB/s.
We have done several tests and I got my home cable line up to about 70KB/s on the cable line.
We switched ISP about a 1 week and the upload rate is now 75KB/s on average on the PCs. And the 2 MACs (Imac and G5) get up to 289KB/s !!
Got 2 new Dell quad core today, which get close to the 280KB/s as well. So I went out and bought a new network card for the older PCs, but they are all stuck at 75KB/s. Router and NIC are all set to auto-negotiate.
The new provider ran tests within the lines and they all came back positive.
I tried the same CAT5e cable on all machines, which is in the same port of the router to get these different numbers.
Pretty lost at the moment, since we cannot figure out why there would be such a huge difference. And we really need the faster speeds.
Any ideas / suggestions of what can be done, or why this is happening???
Input is much appreciated.
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