Half Dux Linksys?

[Lawrence Tilly]

Good afternoon, all.

Today I had my service swapped over from cable to DSL. When I hit 
Speakeasy's speed test after the new service was setup however I got a bit 
of a shock. My download speed was clocking in at only 800kbps ( upload is 
about 650 ). I was a bit concerned and so I reconnected my cable modem and 
tried again...and got very similar results ( 780 down and 500 up ). 

I disconnected my Linksys Firewall Router ( BESFX41 ) and went directly 
against the modems. This looked much better. My upload didn't change in 
either case but my download for both went up over 3k. I have a standard 
Linksys Router ( BEFSR41 ) here also which I hooked up. This had almost no 
impact on the speeds, so it's definetly something with the FIrewall Router.

I went thru the admin menu of the troublesome equipment and I can't find 
anything that might put this thing into half duplex mode or otherwise 
cripple it's performance. I have no logging enabled on the router and no 
special filters running. I double-checked Linksys site and am running the 
most current firmware ( dated 2004 ) and Google has not turned up any leads. 
I have been using this unit for the last 2+ years and to be honest with you 
it has been a LONG time since I've done a speed test, probably when I first 
got everything networked up, so I couldn't say when it may have done this to 
me. I know I could just put in the non-firewall in place for now but I 
really don't want to give up the firewall.

Any ideas / suggestions / experience?

-L
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