>>>     Also, in the tray, I have the two network tv's flashing away, but 
>>> when
>>> you hover over the icon it gives the speed as 100Mbps! o.o
>> Which is the speed between your PC and the router, yes.
> 
>     Ah! Cool! :) So that means I can genuinely say that I "have access to a 
> 100Mbps connection" then...  Heh... :)

Indeed you do. And if you connect anything else to the router, you will 
be able to talk to it at a full 100 Mb/sec too. ;-) Just not teh 
interwebs...

>> Ah, you want the speed between the router and the Internet? Well, that
>> is anoter matter... ;-)
> 
>       Tell me about it!! Man, I feel that my computer is messed up because I 
> changed SO MANY settings! But, everything is working fine. I had to do the 
> http://192.168.0.1 thing - do all routers have to do that?

It varies, but yes, typically "home" routers have a HTTP interface, 
although the exact address varies. (You can usually just run "ipconfig" 
and look at the default gateway setting, and try that.) At work, a lot 
of our printers are configurable in a similar way. HTTP and HTML were 
never ever designed for this, but it's widely deployed and ever since 
Hotmail everybody has been using it this way more and more...

>    What's your internet speed Andrew? (Just curious)

5.2 Mb/sec. Apparently. (Only downstream, obviously.)

At work it's 5.0 Mb/sec, but that's both ways, and it's guaranteed. (And 


>> If you dig around the settings for it, there might be a "status" or
>> "statistics" page somewhere that tells you something useful.
> 
>      No, no statistics page from what I can see, and the 'status' says 
> exactly the same thing as when you hover over the icon. Found the answer 
> above, but it would still be nice if I could access the workings of this 
> thing and get some answers.

Scary fact: Your new router is *probably* just a customised computer 
running a customised version of Linux! (My dad's router - Belkin I think 
- gives you telnet access to a Bash shell...)

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