It is very possible the linksys can only do what yer getting. It may be a
100mb nic on the linksys, but firewall throughput would be way way less.
That just means the router itself.

I am only totally guessing.


"Steve" wrote in message news:9P4kg.2393$c85.1447@fe10.lga...
>I have a somewhat similar problem to that described by Steve. I have
>Optimum Boost, for that don't know what that is I'm allowed 30 mbps down 2
>mbps up. When directly connected from cable modem to NIC i achieve that no
>problem. When I connect my Linksys BEFSX41 router (wired) I get at best
>between 11 to 13mbps. Below are the steps I've taken so far to rectify the
>issue:
>
> 1 - Change my NIC speed to 100 Full Mode in the device manager
> 2 - Disabled MTU on my router - no results. Enabled MTU and tweaked some
> values such as 1492, 1300, still no improvement.
> 3 - Disabled router firewall (risky but just for testing purposes), not
> running any s/w firewalls.
> 4 - Call Linksys Tech support, result...a waste of time.
>
> What boggles me is this, my router is considered a 10/100 like the NIC
> right? Well i'm getting more than 10 mbps so I know I must be streaming
> through the 100 mbps band, but it never gets past 15 so i feel like i'm
> being capped by a 15 mbps limit. I use Cat5 cables and i know they're
> fine, I use the very same one when i connect directly. If anyone knows
> anything further that i overlooked I'd greatly appreciate it.