"Pep" wrote in message
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| I had a fiddle with the registry, and changed the DefaultRcvWindow value from
| 2144 to 34432640. Solved it.


No one knows why this works, it is illogical and does not compute. However, it
doubled my cable speed!
I've got 1461 kbps download speed now; instead of 765 kbps with a
DefaultRcvWindow value of 64240.

My upload speed is only 375 kbps.
Are there any unusual hacks to bring that speed way up too?

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http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
This is an old beast back in our downloads list by popular demand. Note this is
an older patch, by a company that is no longer in business . A lot of people
reported drastic speed increase using this patch in the past. It's a program
that was supported by @Home Cable Modem Service at the beginning of 1998, and it
claims to make registry changes in order to increase Cable modem performance.
The only key it makes changes to, that I'm aware of is "DefaultRcvWindow". It
changes it to "373360" ?! The only disadvantage that I know of, is that that the
373360 RWIN value seems bogus, since it is not multiple of MSS. Another fact is
that such large value is not supported under Windows 95 and NT4, only Windows
98,98SE,ME,2k,XP have Large TCP Windows Support. To get the last bit of
performance out of your Cable Modem, I'd recommend changing the RWin setting to
some multiple of MSS after applying the patch (use our TCP Optimizer, check the
Registry Tweaks section , or install one of our Generic Registry patches) after
applying the @Home patch. This patch was not supported by the @Home staff after
1998, according to them "It might cause some problems with stream video..." If
you still want it, you can download it from here. I couldn't reproduce any
problems with "video streaming" while running the patch. If you want to
uninstall this patch for some reason, you can do it easily from "Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs" - look for "Quest@Home"