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Old July 15th 05, 04:43 PM
Pep
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Hi There,

I've recently got connected to Plusnet's 2MB unmetered service and I can't
seem to get a decent connection speed. I have 2 PCs, 1 is a desktop running
Win Me, connected to a D-Link DSL-G604T wireless ADSL router via a DWL-G122
USB (1.1) adapter. The other is an IBM thinkpad T41p using a wireless lan
mini PCI adapter, Win XP, which also connects to the router.

With the laptop I can get very close to 2Mbps, but with my desktop, the best
I can get is 433kbps, although it averages 400kbps

I have the following security options enabled WPA & Mac address access
control, don't know if this affects anything, although doesn't seem to affect
the laptop.

I tried installing a 2.0 USB card and wired network interface card, the
results are below:

Using the USB 2.0 card: No difference. I even moved the AP right next to the
USB adapter so that the signal strength was 100%. No cigar.

Using the NIC: Connection speed lept up to around 600Kbps which is an
improvement of approx 50% but still no-where near the consistent 1.8Mbps I
can get with the laptop.

Do I ditch ME and trying upgrading to XP? Anyone got any other ideas on
other settings I could change on ME box?

Frustrated.
Pep
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Old July 16th 05, 07:16 AM
N. Miller
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:43:04 -0700, Pep wrote:

Do I ditch ME and trying upgrading to XP? Anyone got any other ideas on
other settings I could change on ME box?


The OS shouldn't affect your connection speed. I regularly pull 1,290 to
1,301 downloads with SBC Yahoo! DSL Service on their 1,536kpbs Express
package. PPPoE and ATM overhead eat the difference between what I actually
get and my potential maximum; all with Windows ME.

USB 1.1 should be good for 12Mbps, considerably higher than your 2Mbps
maximum.

Have you tweaked your MTU settings in the Windows ME computer? It should be
capable of matching the Windows XP dl/ul speeds.

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Norman
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~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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Old July 16th 05, 10:55 AM
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I had a fiddle with the registry, and changed the DefaultRcvWindow value from
2144 to 34432640. Solved it.

Pep

"N. Miller" wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:43:04 -0700, Pep wrote:

Do I ditch ME and trying upgrading to XP? Anyone got any other ideas on
other settings I could change on ME box?


The OS shouldn't affect your connection speed. I regularly pull 1,290 to
1,301 downloads with SBC Yahoo! DSL Service on their 1,536kpbs Express
package. PPPoE and ATM overhead eat the difference between what I actually
get and my potential maximum; all with Windows ME.

USB 1.1 should be good for 12Mbps, considerably higher than your 2Mbps
maximum.

Have you tweaked your MTU settings in the Windows ME computer? It should be
capable of matching the Windows XP dl/ul speeds.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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Old July 16th 05, 05:01 PM
N. Miller
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:55:02 -0700, Pep wrote:

I had a fiddle with the registry, and changed the DefaultRcvWindow value from
2144 to 34432640. Solved it.


Forgot about that one. Both RWIN and MTU are optimized for dial-up
connections in Windows ME. BroadBandReports has some tools to manage
optimzization of each for HSI connections. IIRC, my RWIN is about the same
as yours. If your DSL requires PPPoE, MTU has to be lowered from 1500; I am
using 1492, but others have had to go lower. I don't know if the same
applies for PPPoA. I think that DSL users who don't need PPPoE can go with
the MTU at 1500. Not sure really, though.

http://www.broadbandreports.com

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Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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Old July 17th 05, 08:17 AM
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"Pep" wrote in message
...
| 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?

************************************************** *****************
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"




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Old July 17th 05, 10:21 AM
N. Miller
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:17:03 GMT, Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:

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?


From your article headers:

NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.66.252.81

From Sam Spade:

07/17/05 02:08:22 dns 66.66.252.81
nslookup 66.66.252.81
Canonical name: cpe-66-66-252-81.rochester.res.rr.com
Addresses:
66.66.252.81

What is your HSI account plan? Road Runner is advertising a 5,000kbps
download plan, so your 1,461kbps seems a tad shy of your potential maximum.
I don't see an upload speed mentioned, but yours seems in the ballpark for
a standard 384kbps plan.

BTW, Road Runner is claiming to be 3x faster than DSL. As usual, though,
the cable company is using last year's DSL speeds for this year's
comparisons. For half the price of 5-6Mbps down DSL will give you half the
speed; but often with twice the up speed.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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Old July 18th 05, 03:24 PM
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Interesting stuff, as I have a 2Mb connection, what's the maximum download
speed I should expect? it's currently approx. 230KBs.

Thanks.
Pep.

"N. Miller" wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:17:03 GMT, Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:

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?


From your article headers:

NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.66.252.81

From Sam Spade:

07/17/05 02:08:22 dns 66.66.252.81
nslookup 66.66.252.81
Canonical name: cpe-66-66-252-81.rochester.res.rr.com
Addresses:
66.66.252.81

What is your HSI account plan? Road Runner is advertising a 5,000kbps
download plan, so your 1,461kbps seems a tad shy of your potential maximum.
I don't see an upload speed mentioned, but yours seems in the ballpark for
a standard 384kbps plan.

BTW, Road Runner is claiming to be 3x faster than DSL. As usual, though,
the cable company is using last year's DSL speeds for this year's
comparisons. For half the price of 5-6Mbps down DSL will give you half the
speed; but often with twice the up speed.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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Old July 18th 05, 03:24 PM
Pep
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Interesting stuff, as I have a 2Mb connection, what's the maximum download
speed I should expect? it's currently approx. 230KBs.

Thanks.
Pep.

"N. Miller" wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:17:03 GMT, Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:

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?


From your article headers:

NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.66.252.81

From Sam Spade:

07/17/05 02:08:22 dns 66.66.252.81
nslookup 66.66.252.81
Canonical name: cpe-66-66-252-81.rochester.res.rr.com
Addresses:
66.66.252.81

What is your HSI account plan? Road Runner is advertising a 5,000kbps
download plan, so your 1,461kbps seems a tad shy of your potential maximum.
I don't see an upload speed mentioned, but yours seems in the ballpark for
a standard 384kbps plan.

BTW, Road Runner is claiming to be 3x faster than DSL. As usual, though,
the cable company is using last year's DSL speeds for this year's
comparisons. For half the price of 5-6Mbps down DSL will give you half the
speed; but often with twice the up speed.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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Old July 18th 05, 05:15 PM
N. Miller
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:24:02 -0700, Pep wrote:

"N. Miller" wrote:


On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:17:03 GMT, Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:


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?

Road Runner is advertising a 5,000kbps download plan, so your 1,461kbps
seems a tad shy of your potential maximum. I don't see an upload speed
mentioned, but yours seems in the ballpark for a standard 384kbps plan.


Interesting stuff, as I have a 2Mb connection, what's the maximum download
speed I should expect? it's currently approx. 230KBs.


8 bits per byte, and a little overhead...I would say that you are in the
ballpark; assuming that by 230KBs you mean 230 kilo Bytes per second.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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Old July 19th 05, 11:34 AM
Pep
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Yup, thanks.

"N. Miller" wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:24:02 -0700, Pep wrote:

"N. Miller" wrote:


On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:17:03 GMT, Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:


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?
Road Runner is advertising a 5,000kbps download plan, so your 1,461kbps
seems a tad shy of your potential maximum. I don't see an upload speed
mentioned, but yours seems in the ballpark for a standard 384kbps plan.


Interesting stuff, as I have a 2Mb connection, what's the maximum download
speed I should expect? it's currently approx. 230KBs.


8 bits per byte, and a little overhead...I would say that you are in the
ballpark; assuming that by 230KBs you mean 230 kilo Bytes per second.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

 




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