How do i check line stats?

Hogzy

Hey guys...

Thinking of changing to BT 24mb broadband however i wanna check what kind of speeds i will be getting, I know there are loads of threads on this but they all seem to say check your line stats!

How do i do this?
And from the results how can i predict what my speed "could" be?

Currently with Eircom

MunsterCycling

OPen the routers webadmin page (its the same as your gateway address) and login to the router then look for the stats page on the modem.

Best to post what router you have and who you are with now.

MC

Hogzy

Modem:netopia cayman 3341
Eircom 7.6mb (questionable:P) connection
Using a belkin Wireless router!

Im sorry if i sound ignorant but i dont understand your above post!

MunsterCycling

Hogzy wrote: »

Modem:netopia cayman 3341
Eircom 7.6mb (questionable:P) connection
Using a belkin Wireless router!

Im sorry if i sound ignorant but i dont understand your above post!

No Probs.

Start Menu > Run > type: cmd

then hit return

at the command prompt that opens type: ipconfig /all

In the output of this command look for an entry called default gateway, note its IP (if the default settings apply it should be 192.168.1.254, this is the IP of your modem on most networks)

Take this info and enter it into the address area on your browser and it will either open a page which is the home page of the modem or it will ask you for a user/password combination

you want

user: admin
password: 1234

(these are the defaults but may have been changed

http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/technotes/CIR_011.html

Follow on from here with link above

Where it says in point five to click Diagnostics instead click Statistics and I think you should find in there the connection stats for the modem, post them here and we can advise you.

MC

Hogzy

ok i tried all this, when i typed ipconfig /all i got a list of tunnels?

I cant access the info page for the netopia but i can access the infor page for the belkin!

Below is a list of submenus that i can choose! What should i do? Sorry this is so screwed up!

LAN Setup
LAN Settings
DHCP Client List
Internet WAN
Connection Type
DNS
MAC Address
Wireless
Channel and SSID
Security
Use as Access Point
MAC Address Control
Firewall
Virtual Servers
Client IP Filters
DMZ
DDNS
WAN Ping Blocking
Security Log
Utilities
Restart Router
Restore Factory Default
Save/Backup Settings
Restore Previous Settings
Firmware Update
System Settings

MunsterCycling

You need to connect directly to the modem with an Ethernet cable, easiest and simplest way to do this.


MC