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Originally posted by Matty
the connection from the Router to the Modem is only 10mbps causing it to be extremly slow
I doubt that has anything to do with whatever problem your friend is having. 10 Mbps is often all the ethernet connection on cable and DSL modems is designed for. It would cap a file download from the Internet at about 1 MB/sec -- is that what he is getting and you are calling "extremely slow"? The speed used by the WAN port would not have any effect on things like copying files across the local network.
In the event your friend is fortunate enough to have an Internet connection rated faster than 10Mbps and this actually matters, you probably have ethernet autosensing selecting the wrong speed. Among the things I'd suggest for that are:
1) Check the D-Link website for newer firmware and update the router. Any known issues with that would be corrected through new firmware.
2) Try another cable. While unlikely, a bad cable could cause autosensing to fall back to 10 Mbps (and could also account for framing errors and further slowdown during operation).
3) Way back in the day, when 10/100 ethernet and autosensing devices were still new and crappy, the trick to getting them to do the right thing often was changing the order in which the devices were powered on -- try turning both off, then power them on modem first and router first, to see if that makes any difference.
