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No parallel download due to poor router choice?
For my work I use vim, which is a text editor that supports plugins. One of the plugins is a "master" plugin that manages all plugins, i.e. downloads them. There are several plugin managers like "...
Retired_Member wrote:
- Bad, newer router: NETGEAR R6120
Strange that you should have the R6120 as a "newer router". It may be just a few years old, from 2019, but it it at least a decade behind the times in its network technology. It is shameful that Netgear still sells this relic.
According to Netgear's manual for the R6120, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN ports support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer internet services and most modern network hardware. This may not matter to you, but be warned that it will hobble you if you ever sign up for faster Internet, anything faster than 100 Mbps is a waste of your money.
It also slows down whatever is going on in your local network. Newer devices support at least 1000BASE-TX. That includes your modem, which can feed your router at 1000 Mbps. Neither of your routers can take that traffic.
No surprise, then, that things are slow on your network. It looks like the TP-Link WR841N is equally slow.
You don't say how fast your Internet connection is, but your hardware seems to be well behind the curve. If speed is important to you, it might be a good time to get something a bit more up to date.
Since both routers are equally slow then why does the older one update plugins much faster?
My internet speed is 100Mbps anyway, so it doesn’t make a difference.
when I said the router was “newer” I meant it was newer compared to the tp link. I never said I bought it recently either. That is off topic though. The question was why does one router download plugins in parallel which is older but the newer one does not have that function. It doesn’t impair anything else in the network.