I just upgraded to a ADSL Service 10 Mbps. - When connect either my laptop or my PC directly to the ADSL modem, all seems OK. Speed is around 10 Mbps. - When I connect them (both my computers) through the router (both wired or wireless) I cannot get more than 4.5 Mbps. - I used to have a 2Mbps service and never experienced a decrease in speed through th router compared with the direct-to modem connection. - I've changed the firmware to dd-rwt.com latest version (V24 sp2 10/10/09) and changed some settings but nothing seems to help.

What is the bandwidth speed of the connection to the device you are watching the movie on. Is it via Wi Fi 802.11N as it will not be fast enough. What is the ISP speed is it ADSL Modem (speed could be a problem depending on distance from Telephone Exchange) or Cable Modem. Try temporarily connecting directly via a Cat5E ethernet cable directly into your Network Hub and see if it improves. If wireless 802.11N you may want to consider 802.11ac which runs faster (if you can use a USB network adapter for 802,11AC ) if ISP speed is at least 433 Mbps and you have 1000 mbps network switch and network connection ethernet hub out of ADSL or Cable modem is 433 mbps or 1000 Mbps . I am going to connect a power point network adapter as the newer technology runs over power points a lot faster than my previous 85 Mbbps device. I could not watch Netflix moviesd as 85 mbbps was not fast enough and trying to use Adobe web conferencing via my 802.11N Wi fi or the 85 mbbp power point device is not fast enough.

Your Internet connection speed is very low better you can try the following steps:
1)Reset the modem
2)Use the latest web browser like Chrome,Opera,Mozilla Firefox etc..
3)Use the antivirus protection software and internet virus protection software.
4)Clear the cookies everyday on your browser.
5)Then check your internet uploading and downloading speed in MBps and Mbps from Scanmyspeed.com . Still your Internet Speed is low then contact the Internet Service Provider(ISP) and upgrade to latest plan.

Depending on the Wireless device, speeds differ with the protocol a bit. A cable/hardwire connection will always be a faster. I would not get to hung up on speed test software, there are many factors when using different one's , your speed will vary wildly, form one to another. Your dealing with ALL the outside ISP equipment you have no control over. If you go to 10 different "Speed Test" software websites, you will get 10 different Uploads speeds, and 10 different Download speeds. Most of this is due to Outside equipment. You just may be Obsessing over something you can't control, but I could be wrong. Maybe your ISP is "throttling" your signal? http://www.pcworld.com/article/158552/check_ISP_speeds.html

Are you trying to connect the laptops via wireless? Is that where you are seeing 75 mbps? I am assuming you are, and 75 mbps is really not how fast your internet connection is. Rather, that is how fast you are transferring data from your laptop to the wireless router and back. Generally speaking, this should be a way faster connection than your internet is running at. Chances are your internet connection speed is 10 to 20 mbps, which is good and fast.

It is easy to get the two confused, but basically a wireless connection of 75 mbps is an uber fast connection to your wireless router, and only if your actual internet connection was faster than that 75 mbps would you see any slowness due to that.

Wireless N routers are capable of delivering up to 100 mbps connection speeds, but again that is only from your device to the router. The router then goes to your modem and out through the internet. Chances are that connection is not 100 mbps because of interference, which can be walls, other wireless devices, etc.

One way to test your actual internet connection speed is to go to www.speedtest.net and click on one of the links on the map. This will tell you how many mbps you get to the internet.

usually it starts with 192.168.1.1

Yes you can use the laptop with this router because this is a wireless router.

Details of the router are:-

Manufacturer: 2wire Product MPN MPN 1000-400108-001 Key Features Router Functionalities Wireless Access Point • DSL Modem • Firewall • DHCP Server Connectivity Wireless Interfaces Built-In 4-port Built-In Switch LAN Interfaces 10/100 Base-T Additional Interfaces 1 x USB Standards and Protocols LAN Standards IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD or Ethernet • IEEE 802.3u 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet) Protocols AAL5 • ARP • ATM • DHCP • ICMP • IP • PPPoA • PPPoE • TCP • UDP Remote Management Protocol SNMP • HTTP Firewall / VPN Firewall Features Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) • NAT VPN Protocols IPSec Pass-Thru • PPTP Pass-Thru • L2TP Pass-Thru Authentication CHAP Wireless WLAN Standards IEEE 802.11b 802.11b Data Rates 11 Mbps, 5.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps Modulation CCK • DBPSK • DQPSK • DSSS Security WEP Antenna Type Internal / Integrated Antenna x 3 Modem DSL Standards ADSL Lite (G.Lite ITU G.992.2) Other Features LED Indicators Power • DSL • Link Additional Features Auto Crossover (MDI/MDI-X) Dimensions Width 2 in. Depth 10 in. Height 8 in. Weight 1.4 lb. Miscellaneous Release Date December, 2003

Make sure that your computer is able to go online directly through the modem.
If your computer is able to go online through the modem, that means the modem is working fine.
You will need to connect the computer to the router and the modem to the router.
open the set up page of the router and change the settings of the router according to the ISP.

Click Here for more information about the routers and network

is that a phone modem

this are conventional speeds expected:

• Conventional Ethernet can transmit data at rates from 10 Mbps up to 100 Mbps.
  
• Phoneline networking specification, HomePNA 2.0, transmits data at rates up to 10 Mbps.
  
• One type of powerline networking technology promises data speeds up to 189 Mbps.
  
• Wireless Ethernet has data transmission rates up to 11 Mbps.
  
• HomeRF goes up to 1.6 Mbps.
  
• Bluetooth goes up to 3 Mbps.
  

the speeds noted above are theoretical as other factors WILL affect your connection speed and WILL LIKELY lower the connection speed between your device and the ISP.

for comparison check on www.speedtest.net and compare other isp, changing isp is your more concret solution.

The speed of your wireless adapter maybe up to 54 Mpbs only, check the wireless adapter that you have if it is 802.11 G its set to 54 Mbps only however if your using 802.11 N the speed of the adapter is around 300 mbps of connection.

There's a settings on the router that you can lock WAN port speed to around 10/100/1000

Note: To have a 300 Mbps of connection you should set the wireless settings of the router to WPA2 and AES with bandwidth of auto 20/40

The speed of the cable modem is only one part of the equation. There are a combination of factors starting with how fast your PC can handle IP traffic, then how fast your PC to cable modem interface is, then how fast the cable modem system runs and how much congestion there is on the cable network, then how big a pipe there is at the head end to the rest of the Internet. Different models of PCs and Macs are able to handle IP traffic at varying speeds. Very few can handle it at 30 Mbps. Ethernet (10baseT) is the most popular cable modem interface standard for the PC. This automatically limits the speed of the connection to under 10 Mbps even if the cable modem can receive at 30 Mbps. Most Local Area Networks use 10baseT Ethernet, and although they are 10 Mbps networks, it takes a LOT longer than one second to transmit 10 megabits (or 1.25 megabytes) of data from one terminal to another. Cable modems on the same node share bandwidth, which means that congestion is created when too many people are on simultaneously. One user downloading large graphic or video files can use a significant portion of shared bandwidth, slowing down access for other users in the same neighborhood. Most independent Internet Service Providers today connect to the Internet using a single 1.5 Mbps "T1" telephone line. All of their subscribers share that 1.5 Mbps pipeline. Cable head-ends connecting to the Internet backbone using a T1 limit their subscribers to an absolute maximum of 1.5 Mbps. To create the appearance of faster network access, service companies plan to store or "cache" frequently requested web sites and Usenet newsgroups on a server at their head-end. Storing data locally will remove some of the bottleneck at the backbone connection. How fast can they go? In a perfect world (or lab) they can receive data at speeds up to 30 Mbps. In the real world, with cost conscious cable companies running the systems, the speed will probably fall to about 1.5 Mbps.