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[Timothy Butler]

Hi everyone,
I purchased a new cable modem after observing that the speed on the  
old modem (a Linksys one) would never reach what my plan was now  
supplying (10 meg). Stupidly, I did not try connecting the modem  
straight to the computer. But, I had been told the modem couldn't do a  
10 meg connection -- I'm not sure if that's true or not.

In any case, I hooked up a new Motorola Surfboard to the computer, ran  
through the self-install and presto, I have a 10 meg connection --  
until I reconnected it to the router. I now feel really dumb for not  
trying it directly connected to the computer. After updating the  
router firmware from it's old 2000-era firmware to the most recent  
(2004) version for a BEFSR41 1.0 model, I'm now up to 6-8 megs, but I  
still cannot reach the nearly-10 meg speed of a direct connection.

Any suggestions? Do you think this router is slowing things down or  
that any router would take this much of a bite out of a 10 meg  
connection?

Thanks,
Tim

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