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Aspirant

Dec 29, 2015

WAN to LAN throughput FVS318G

I have a FVS318G which is 5 years old. Just got hooked up with Comcast business class. Direct connection to modem yields 85mbs wired. Via the FVS318G it is 15mbs. Can someone point me to what settin...

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remltr

Aspirant

Jan 01, 2016

John,

How do I tell the difference between a v1 and v2 on the market today. Would a v2 still be labeled FVS318G or would it be a FVS318N?

And what about a switch that would probably need replacing as well since it was also purchased at the same time as the v1 router. What would you recommend there?

Thanks,

Dave

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 03, 2016

Hi remltr,

As a follow-up, you could distinguish the FVS318Gv2 from the FVS318v1 through its product order code. The product code for FVS318Gv2 in North America is FVS318G-200NAS. The product order code of FVS318N in North America is FVS318N-100NAS. Kindly check page 5 of the ProSAFE VPN Firewall Series data sheet here.

What type of switch are you looking for? Kindly check this link: http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

remltr
Aspirant
Jan 07, 2016
Alright I have the FVS318Gv2 purchased and installed and have 85 - 90mbs WAN to LAN which is max output from Comcast.

Behind the 5 year old 5 port Netgear unmanaged gigabyte switch I am getting 60mbs WAN.

I am happy with that.

My question now is would a newer model switch such as the FS105 or FS108 improve LAN speeds on a peer to peer network? Or has that tecnology not improved over the last 5 years? And is there any way to measure the LAN speed other than by the lights on the router and switch?

Thank you.

Dave
JohnRo
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 08, 2016
Hello remltr,

I'd like to join this conversation and maybe help you with your query. Considering you are using all gigabit network cards on all the devices on the network adding a newer model FS105 and FS108 would not really help. The FS105 and FS108 are only fast ethernet devices, even if they are newest models they can only work at 100Mpbs maximum. There are a lot of softwares online (some are free) that you can download (ex. LAN speedtest from totusoft), they are installed on one or two of your PC's and can be used to measure the transfer speed between one device to another. The tests that you can perform are only to measure the LAN speed performance, this does not involve internet throughput.

I hope this helps, let us know.

Thanks,