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Virgin Media 50 Meg and Vigor 2910VG gives very poor results

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03 Jul 2010 18:11 #62669 by bym007
Hi folks,

I upgraded yesterday to a 50 Meg Virgin Cable connection, and decided to stick with my 2910VG. The problem I am facing at the moment is that over ethernet my thoroughout goes down to around 20-30 Meg range, whereas on direct connection to the modem, I am getting 45+ Meg consistently.

Anything that I could do to change this ?

I am also using Bandwidth Management (not on my port though)!

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03 Jul 2010 20:17 #62670 by njh
I'm surprised you are getting that much! The 2910 is only rated to 15Mbps . In an internal test I got my 2900 (which is rated the same) up to just over 20Mbps but that is it! I think a new router will be in order perhaps a 2820 series or 2920 series.

2900Gi/v2.5.6; 2900/v2.5.6

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03 Jul 2010 20:36 #62671 by bym007

NJH wrote: I'm surprised you are getting that much! The 2910 is only rated to 15Mbps . In an internal test I got my 2900 (which is rated the same) up to just over 20Mbps but that is it! I think a new router will be in order perhaps a 2820 series or 2920 series.



Any particular reason why it works so slow on ethernet ?

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03 Jul 2010 20:42 #62672 by njh
No idea. It is the design which presumably pre-dates generally available fast connections. Having said that it would still struggle with 20Mbps VM cable and totally fail if you use DoS Defense or QoS which are processor intensive.

2900Gi/v2.5.6; 2900/v2.5.6

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03 Jul 2010 20:46 #62673 by bym007
I see, so if I were to upgrade, which model would be better ? I am not looking for VoIP or 3G dongle.

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03 Jul 2010 21:36 #62674 by njh
If you want a simple router, I would guess that the 2110 is the cheapest. It has the throughput (just). If you want to have the spare throughput, the 2920. It is up to you and depends what features you want.

If you want some real fun, get yourself one of the nettop type boxes (something low power based round the Intel Atom processor) with Gb ethernet and run something like ClearOS

2900Gi/v2.5.6; 2900/v2.5.6

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