I have a Netgear router, and its only giving out 100Mbps per LAN PORT?

Question

Yet my Cable modem is running at 500 Mbps??? Can i distribute more Mbps????

Answer 1

In order to distribute more you would need to upgrade to a gigabit router. Those are more expensive, and I'm not sure why you would need more than 100mbps or how you're getting more than 100mbps.

Answer 2

I highly doubt your cable modem is giving you 500 mbps! They simply don't run that fast anywhere. 5 mbps is much more likely; the fastest I've seen anywhere was 20 mbps.

100 mbps is the fastest port speed you're going to get on a SOHO router, and is still 20x faster than your cable modem.

You can test your cable modem's speed here: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ You'll see that it's nowhere near 500 mbps. 3,000 - 5,000 kbps maybe, but not 500 mbps.

Answer 3

A common mistake. You are mixing mega-bits and mega-bytes.

A byte is 8 bits long, so one is 8 times faster/slower than the other.

Generally, capitalization should show which is which - with
"MB" being Mega-Bytes and "Mb" being mega-bits, but this is
not always followed.

A 100Mb Ethernet port usually supports 10/100Mb and up to 200Mb (100Mb in each direction at the same time in Full-Duplex mode).

I doubt that you're getting 500mbps out of a cable modem - more like 500Kbps or a little more.

See this speed test. It will check your local and cable connection speeds.
http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123

(anl.gov is Argonne National Laboratories)

Answer 4

I highly doubt your cable modem is 500MBps. More like 500KBps. 100MB is standard and is plenty for any cable Internet connection.

Your next step up would be Gigabit Ethernet and I'm not even sure you can get a small cable router using GigE (at least not an affordable one).

Answer 5

Your cable modem does NOT run at 500Mbps. 500Kbps is more likely, but not 500Mbps. Verizon's FiOS is 15Mbps, and it's fiber optic. No one has 500Mbps cable.