Broadband Slow When Wired Through Router

[Kezmondo]

Hi,

I recently setup a wireless network at home. It just consisted of one PC and the following:
- Cable broadband (1Mbit)
- Netgear WG311 wireless card
- Netgear WGR614v5 router

All went fine and connection was established and I can access the internet. However, it seemed slow. To eliminate wireless issues, I disabled the wireless card, and reverted to a "Wired" setup:
- Cable modem connected to router over ethernet
- PC connected to router over ethernet

But I am still getting the slow speed.
Running the test at http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp, I get download speeds which vary from 30-80 KB/sec, where I would expect the up towards 125 KB/sec. If I bypass the router, and go straight from PC to modem over ethernet, I get that 125 KB/sec, give or take a bit.

Am I being harsh here? Surely with a wired connection, the router should not degrade my connection speed like that?

I've upgraded the router to the latest firmware, and tried restoring factory settings etc...still no joy.

Any thoughts/comments gratefully received.

Thanks...

[Byte 2.0]

That does seem abit high of a lose rate.

For a time, I had a different model of netgear and I was able to hold speeds very near the max of my connection, around 3000kbps, or around 370/KBps on speed tests.

So the netgear shoud be able to handle it.

So a couple things, the ethernet from the cable modem is going to the Wan port.

Might need to surf into the router and check a few settings. The MTU settings might be set low. should probably be set to about max 1500. they might be like 1300 or 1200 at the moment. Causing a bottle neck.

If all that fails to help, check into a firmware update. If you still see a big difference then it could be a ethernet cable or possible the router.

On the wireless side if you turn up WEP encrpytion to say 128 you will notice a slow down.