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Linksys BEFSR41 RouterLinksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port 10/100 Switch (Model BEFSR41)
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Brent Sisoft Sandra 2000 Pro benchmarks:
As you might have noticed from the benchmarks above the LAN speed is excellent thanks to the routers 10/100 Switch. Both of my machines were able to test at 8.5Mbps according to SiSoft Sandra. That one Burst speed was very exciting, it did burst a couple of times at 9.8Mbps which isn't bad at all for a Windows98 system. On the DU Meter tests there what I did was copyied an .iso specifically Gentus Linux .iso from one PC to another using Network Neighborhood. The .iso file is 637MB in size so that made a nice large file to check transfer speeds with. Downloading on my Main PC from my Second PC you see that it got 4,641KB/sec that translates to roughly 4.6MB/sec. This is the Sustained Constent Rate it was transfering at. Now downloading on my Second PC from my Main PC it showed 4,086KB/sec which is roughly 4MB/sec. So those speeds weren't all that fast. It's probably either do to my 5400RPM UDMA/33 drive on my other computer, or just the slowness of Windows 98's network protocols. I would love to do some more testing comparing the LAN speeds. I could hook up my Cornet Switch I have and compare LAN speeds between it and the Routers Switch. I could also hook up Peer to Peer and test LAN speeds. If you all would like to see more comparisons and tests from me just let me know. If you have any other suggestions on how I should test or what programs I should test with just drop me a line. Now I have no way of testing the WAN port to see how high I can push it. All I can say is that my Cable Download speeds haven't changed, they seem exactly where they usually are. If anybody knows of a good way to push the WAN port LMK. I probably don't have the equipment to do so but I'll take suggestions.
I wasn't too concerned with speed testing (if this had been a video card I would have been ALL over it). I download a lot of files and usually pay attention to my transfer rates. Right away, I could tell I was averaging slightly better transfer rates on downloads (as compared to my old software proxy setup). I also had identical ping times (latency). As I state later on: My wife and I have played Internet Q3 games at the same time (through my single DSL connection) with ping times as low as 35ms each (simultaneously). My DSL service is working very well, and this Router is performing perfectly. Basically, this is all I needed to know. I did use SiSoft Sandra 2000 to test the LAN side of the Router on two different PC's (from a third host PC): If you'll notice - one PC got a slightly better rating. I was curious to see if this was because of the Router (possibly a 'slow' port), so I switched Port connections on those two computers several times and got exactly the same results. There seems to be no difference in individual LAN performance between the LAN ports.
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anonymous - 2006-04-13 16:56
I have had this router for about 6 years now, and can say I have had no problems with it. It is usually on 24/7/365, unless a storm is coming through and then I unhook everything. when I moved into my new house, a lightening strike killed my cable modem (cable company had not grounded the line yet - kudos to comcast, they replaced the modem at no cost to me), but the router is still going strong. I highly recommend this router.
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