| mgthe3 |
I just tried a little tool from speed guide and WOW quite a differance in my cable connection. Before, it was 1800k on bad times and 3800k on good times. Now it posts 3857K consistently.
****A warning for the folks who don't want to research and blindly do this, it can affect your speed negatively if you do something wrong.****
Download this Tool
Save it to ur desktop...or wherever.
Run it.
In the bottom right corner you will see a Optimal Settings radio button, select that. If you notice, your RWIN (TCP receive window) will show 256960. It is usually 65535 by default XP installs.
Click Apply to All Adapters.
Click Apply at the bottom. It will now want to boot.
Go HERE and test your performance before and after.
Please read up on the tool HERE before trying any of this.
I was very impressed. This weather link---> http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/mosai....us.conus.shtml loaded up in less than a quarter of the time.
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| Eric L. |
| I forgot to run the benchmark before using the tool, but it definitely did not decrease my download speed. Pages seem to load faster, so I would say it works! Thanks. |
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| mgthe3 |
It really does work.
I have another forum I go to that is notorious for loading the main page slowly due to all of the graphix--it drives dialups nuts.
Now it loads instantly. |
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| jaak |
| I'm not sure I want to mess with my connection.... |
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| mgthe3 |
Great speeds jaak.
:)
You must be in an area where the vast majority don't use broadband. In LA the speeds are some of the worst due to traffic, the edge routers can only handle so much.
But, it does work, no matter what your speed. You will get bigger chunks of data. I did a McAfee DAT download to see the difference last night and got a 900+k download out of them, that is smokin. I may have gotten 3-500k before.
Anyway, was just tryin to help.
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| jaak |
Well, I'm half tempted to try it anyway...
And I'd say the only ones that don't have broadband, are the retired folks in the neighbourhood. Many of them don't even have computers. The neighbourhood was built in 1960, so there's a few of them here.
The path to major backbones is not very long, being in Toronto. And Canada's always been pretty advanced for Telecom, especially since Bell Canada, used to own Nortel. So I'm in a good place for high speed...
I'd really like to see others post results from before and after! |
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| mgthe3 |
So would I.
And they need to do some weather moving radar links to really see a big difference. That and FTP servers should really fly.
I am in Atlanta on a cable to ATT OC-192 (9953Mbps) fiber sonet backbone, the fastest in the world. The internet services however are provisioned to do about 6 hops to get to an internet backbone in Dallas. Maybe you are lucky enough to be next to that last hop onto the internet. Latency is all about the hop weight in our high speed world.
I haven't tried the other multiples of MTU yet. Maybe it would make me move even faster. I'll stick with this for a while bofore trying out other settings. I want to see how it affects ping on some of my online games. |
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| pcs15394 |
| So much for all the bragging Brighthouse has done about speed increases over the past year. Thanks for the information!!:) |
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| jason1234 |
| No change for me. It was the same before and after. Oh well :-) |
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| mgthe3 |
Looks like a big diff for you Sean!
Good for you! |
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| jaak |
My first results... But I tweaked it and almost got what I had without it. Fascinating!
I put it back to the original settings and it's screamin' again. (remember to save them before you make changes!) |
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| jaak |
| Four hops and I'm in Chicago already, from Toronto... Just did a trace route. |
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