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Manual Uplink Speed/Manual Downlink Speed.

If Automatic Uplink

Speed is disabled, these options allow you to set the uplink/downlink
speeds manually. Uplink speed is the speed at which data can be
transferred from the router to your ISP. Downlink speed is the speed
at which data can be transferred from your ISP to the router. These are
determined by your ISP. ISP‟s often specify speed as a downlink/uplink
pair; for example, 1.5 Mbps/284 Kbps. In this case, for the uplink speed
you would enter 1.5 Mbps (or choose 1024 Kbps from the drop down
menu [the speed chosen has to be equal to or

below your connection‟s

rated speed]) and for the uplink speed you would enter 284 Kbps (or
choose 284 Kbps from the drop down menu [the speed chosen has to
be equal to or below your connection‟s rated speed]).

Alternatively you can test your uplink speed with a service such as
www.dslreports.com. NOTE: not matter how a site, such as DSL reports, because they do not consider as many network protocol overheads,
will generally note speeds slightly lower than the Measured Uplink Speed or the ISP rated speed.

Connection Type.

By default, the router automatically determines whether the underlying connection is an xDSL/Frame-relay network or some

other connection type (such as cable modem or Ethernet), and it displays the result as Detected xDSL or Frame Relay Network. If you have an
unusual network connection in which you are actually connected via xDSL but for which you configure either Static

or DHCP

in the WAN settings,

setting this option to xDSL or Other Frame Relay Network ensures that the router will recognize that it needs to shape traffic slightly differently in
order to give the best performance. Choosing xDSL or Other Frame Relay Network causes the measured uplink speed to be reported slightly
lower than before on such connections, but gives much better results.

Detected xDSL or Other Frame Relay Network.

When Connection Type is set to Auto-detect, the automatically detected connection type is

displayed here.

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