venkman781
New Around Here
Hi all,
After setting up my new 3700 yesterday, I cannot seem to get a gigabit LAN connection to my two PCs. I've tried most of the solutions I can think of, but wanted to get some different opinions.
The network is wired like this:
Arris Touchstone WMB760a DOCSIS 3.0 Modem > Netgear WNDR3700 (FW ver. 1.0.4.55NA) > Netgear GS605 v2 5 Port Gigabit Switch > PC1 and PC2
PC hardware looks like this:
PC1:
Win7 x32
Intel P35 chipset, Intel Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM
Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Driver ver. 11.22.3.9)
PC2:
Win7 x32
Intel P35 chipset, Intel Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM
Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller (Driver ver. 7.17.304.2010)
Here's the steps I've taken thus far:
For starters, I power cycled everything (modem, router, switch, PCs).
On the switch, port 1 is the router connection, ports 2 and 3 for each of the PCs. Regardless of how I swap around ports on the switch, the ports used by the PCs show green (1000M), the port used by the router shows amber (100M).
Then, I thought I had a faulty cable, so I swapped out the one that runs from router to switch. No change. Then I tried a third cable that I verified was 5e. Still no change. Then I tried plugging directly into one of the PCs and avoiding the switch altogether, still no change.
Next, I thought I had a bad port, so I tried plugging my Macbook Pro in directly to the same LAN port using a 5e cable and got a gigabit connection no problem. I still need to verify the other ports, so that's on deck for today.
After poking around on the Netgear forums, I tried adjusting the speed of each of my adapters in the Windows Device Manager so that they were on 1000Mbps Full Duplex, instead of Auto-Negotiation. Still no change.
In the router settings, I pulled up the statistics and confirmed that the WAN is connected at 1000M/Full. I thought I might have accidentally bottlenecked the router, but alas, I have not.
When I run out of possible cable/port options, I was going to try flashing to dd-wrt and see if a different firmware makes a difference...but I'm not certain I want to pull the trigger on that just yet as it is still in beta for the 3700.
I'm stumped, guys. Any thoughts on what else I should try?
After setting up my new 3700 yesterday, I cannot seem to get a gigabit LAN connection to my two PCs. I've tried most of the solutions I can think of, but wanted to get some different opinions.
The network is wired like this:
Arris Touchstone WMB760a DOCSIS 3.0 Modem > Netgear WNDR3700 (FW ver. 1.0.4.55NA) > Netgear GS605 v2 5 Port Gigabit Switch > PC1 and PC2
PC hardware looks like this:
PC1:
Win7 x32
Intel P35 chipset, Intel Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM
Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Driver ver. 11.22.3.9)
PC2:
Win7 x32
Intel P35 chipset, Intel Q6600 Quad, 4GB RAM
Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller (Driver ver. 7.17.304.2010)
Here's the steps I've taken thus far:
For starters, I power cycled everything (modem, router, switch, PCs).
On the switch, port 1 is the router connection, ports 2 and 3 for each of the PCs. Regardless of how I swap around ports on the switch, the ports used by the PCs show green (1000M), the port used by the router shows amber (100M).
Then, I thought I had a faulty cable, so I swapped out the one that runs from router to switch. No change. Then I tried a third cable that I verified was 5e. Still no change. Then I tried plugging directly into one of the PCs and avoiding the switch altogether, still no change.
Next, I thought I had a bad port, so I tried plugging my Macbook Pro in directly to the same LAN port using a 5e cable and got a gigabit connection no problem. I still need to verify the other ports, so that's on deck for today.
After poking around on the Netgear forums, I tried adjusting the speed of each of my adapters in the Windows Device Manager so that they were on 1000Mbps Full Duplex, instead of Auto-Negotiation. Still no change.
In the router settings, I pulled up the statistics and confirmed that the WAN is connected at 1000M/Full. I thought I might have accidentally bottlenecked the router, but alas, I have not.
When I run out of possible cable/port options, I was going to try flashing to dd-wrt and see if a different firmware makes a difference...but I'm not certain I want to pull the trigger on that just yet as it is still in beta for the 3700.
I'm stumped, guys. Any thoughts on what else I should try?