# How much can a Router slow down my DSL speed?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-can-a-router-slow-down-my-dsl-speed/484408 "2009-02-04T13:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-can-a-router-slow-down-my-dsl-speed/484408/21 "2009-02-06T12:46:25Z")

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> [@Cosmic Relief](#):
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> It sounds like you’re having a problem very similar to what I once had. Intermittent loss of sync or very slow speeds. Initially we blamed it on differences in test sites but it turned out that the problem was coming and going while we were coming and going even from one site to the other. I’ve had this problem 3 times, and was told it was a different thing each time, all on their end. One was a bad line card in the remote shelf, once was bad configuration at the broadband gateway, once was bad wiring in the remote shelf. Just keep making the techs work and eventually they’ll figure it out.

Olay!

Persistence pays off, apparently!! :D:D:D

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