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[amc]

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.

[Sn_ake]

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.