I was having some issues with linksys routers giving slow internet performance, and found a huge performance increase by disabling the following under the advanced tab of the web admin page:

Multicast Pass Through: Disable
IPSec Pass Through: Disable
PPTP Pass Through: Disable

Also make sure you turn off the logging feature.

Just a note for anyone that might be having the same troubles as I did.

Thanks for the tip!

Websites seem to load pretty damn fast now!

Nice tips! I still left logging on though cause I need to see when my internal ip changes...

Interesting tips. Looking over the on-line manual, those services go mainly unused by the majority of people, so let's hope this helps. Thanks AMC.

i disabled em...not sure what they do...

This topic deserves a pinning since alot of people use Linksys.

Unless you are using a VPN connection these settings do nothing for you but open up more ports and traffic through your router.

i believe the PPTP can be used with DSL connections that have to sign in to there provider, and allows a keep alive signal to the hsot so they do not have to reconnect. i guess if you had more than one network that dialed to the provider than the linksys can enalbe /disalbed it so only part of the network would be online

PPTP is "Point to Point Tunneling Protocol" and is solely used for VPN connections and IPSec is a VPN encryption protocol.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

Thanks for the tip.

By the way, my LinkSys router setting doesn't have
Multicast Pass Through:
I open LinkSys Router Set-up page with IE,
I can see these things:
Security > VPN >
IPSec Passthrough: (now disabled)
PPTP Passthrough: (now disabled)
L2TP Passthrough: ENABLE

L2TP is same as Multicast?
Do I have to keep it as Enabled or Disabled?

PPTP and IPSEC are both protocals used for VPN's, the passthrough feature is there to stop NAT screwing the ports, from what i understand they just allow for passthrough on the ports which these protocals work on, which should not realy give your connection a performance hit. Although if they are inspecting each packet to determine traffic type then you might notice a difference.

The multicasting i'm not to sure on, might have something to do with comunication on a network using different routing protocals that multicast.

If you are not using the above protocals though i would switch them off any how from a security point of view.

Had a Lynksys wireless router which finally gave up the ghost. Purchased Netgear this time and internet is flying!

Good bios page for linksys wireless routers...

hXXp://hyperwrt.org/

There are many issues with linksys routers with these models: BEF4R1

I cant remember the others, but those are the ones with the MOST firmware issues and inconsistencies for games, and gerenal usage.