switched back to broudband cable.. from DSL

faster100

I had road runner, switched to DSL for the deal they offered.. stinks.. after 6 months i back on cable modem from bright house, road runner.. the www.bandwidthplace.com stats for my dsl were 648 kbs... now today it says 2.8 -3.3 megabits per sec.. woo hoo it is alot faster to say the least!!!

STUFFMD

Man I love my Road Runner..yeah it's a little pricy .....had some early modem problems ,but now that's squared away..it rocks reliable.....Faster always go by the motto if it ain't broke don't fix it......
Stuff

faster100

Man, i just did a tweak from the above site, and now it shows as 3.4 mega bits.. this thing flies.. im so happy today about this

tired of the slow **** DSL = Damm- slow- lan

Strong Bad

My Comcast cable connection showed a 1.7 mps speed. Not too shabby!

SPEED!!!


John

Demiurge

3.6 megabits per second

faster100

thats what it says http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/results.html

2.9 megabits per second

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ken brydson

Originally posted by faster100
Man, i just did a tweak from the above site, and now it shows as 3.4 mega bits.. this thing flies.. im so happy today about this
tired of the slow **** DSL = Damm- slow- lan

I only did 1.2 mbs, still fantastic according to the report. What tweeks did you do? I didn't see anything

faster100

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:23 am Post subject: Increase your Broadband

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I took this from one UK broadband forum and it works great
you guys should try
see you all

Increase BROADBAND:

this ones simple:
this is for broad band connections. I didnt try it on dial up but might work for dial up.
1.make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.
2. start - run - type gpedit.msc
3. expand the "local computer policy" branch
4. expand the "administrative templates" branch
5. expand the "network branch"
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window
7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting
8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item
9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0
reboot if you want to but not necessary on some systems your all done. Effect is immediate on some systems. some need re-boot. I have one machine that needs to reboot first, the others didn't. Don't know why this is.

This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In other words, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the bandwidth for its self. Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your advantage. To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines start up a big download from a server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that doesn't max out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this. Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. The start up another download from the same server with another instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of the clients download will be very slow or both will slow down when they should both be using the available bandwidth. Using this "tweak" both clients will have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth.


http://bandwidthplace.com/forum.html

faster100

Results

3.4 megabits per second

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Details

Your raw speed was 3394630.14 bits per second which is the same as:

Communications

3.4 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

414.4 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

2.5 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

Rating

Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is fantastic
Comparisons

STUFFMD

2.7

Charles Rose

2.4-2.5...Not too bad

Polk-a-nizer

Hey, You ain't gotta tell me. That office that I post from everynight is a call center where I do tech. support for DSL. IT SUCKS ****! For the $50 they charge; I get NONSTOP calls from cu complaining about all the problems and how it does'nt work right. I know I would'nt get it.;) Stick with cable.

rs159

The only time my DSL didn't work was a few months ago when the NE had that massive power outage.

Are you users just stupid?

rs159

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TonyPTX

Smokin.....

polkatese

dang, Tony! you have one hell of a connection there....I wouldn't know what I need to do with all those time gain, if I have that speed :cool: cable modem, I take it?

Strong Bad

What model and brand cable modem are you guys using? That should have a good deal of an effect on speed also. I'm in the 1.5 mps range.

I'm using the Comcast supplied Scientific Atlanta modem. Always wanted to step up to the Motorola Surfboard, just never took the time.


John

ken brydson

Originally posted by john d. strong
What model and brand cable modem are you guys using? That should have a good deal of an effect on speed also. I'm in the 1.5 mps range.

I'm using the Comcast supplied Scientific Atlanta modem. Always wanted to step up to the Motorola Surfboard, just never took the time.


John

I've got a Surfboard SB3100 (supplied by Comcast) and I'm only getting 1.2

faster100

Originally posted by TonyPTX
Smokin.....

My highest was 3.4 so im not to far behind, But what do you pay for that 5 megabits?? that is the question... i pay after my 3 months at 21.95, go's to 44.95...

Strong Bad

A friend of mine has Comcast Pro. It's a guaranteed minimum of 3 mps downloads and 375 kps uploads.

All for the low low price of $90.00 a month. Then again, his company pays for it.

Dr. Spec

1.3 with no tweaks - I'll try to speed it up.

TonyPTX

OK, the 5.3 Mbps was the work pipe....pretty crappy actually, but hell I'm not managing it nor am I paying for it, the home access is provided by Cox Cable and is generally rock steady at 2.9 Mbps.

Tony

Pauly

1.3 non tweaked
1.3 tweaked
What gives? Running XP Pro on a compaqnx9010 Laptop. Freaking Verizon DSL. ****! :mad:

faster100

Spastic, I had RR, switched to verizon DSL and it was ok until the last month, then the last 2 weeks it slowed even more.. 659 kbps

I got Road runner the other day and now im at 3.3 mbps so its smokin faster then DSL.. cable is the way.

Pauly

man i have his DSL for a few months now but latley it seems like it likes to stall breifly. I know its not my computer, so i just might be going cable. DAMN YOU VERIZON!!!!;)

faster100

mine was doing the same thing, last 2 weeks worth.. i said eff it.. back to cable. 3.3 megs a sec.......

dorokusai

John - We use the same service essentially. If you are capped, you are capped, no amount of tweaks will get you reliable super speed....period. Modem change is not really the answer.

There a few things you can do, but second stop should be www.dslreports.com , they have a large active forum for users of all connections. Check it out and gain some speed, but don't expect milestones.

Comcast caps in our area, its a fact, and it sucks.

P.S. I run reliable at 1.7/240 and that is fine by me.

Frank Z

GAWD Damn....What bunch of cheese eatin wieners!! I'm stuck with a freakin 56k modem that gets up to 48000 when everyone else in town is asleep! Be thankful for what you got...ya high speed bastages!! Do you have any idea about how long it takes to download a **** 10 second **** clip at 48kbs...DO YA?!?:mad:

(leaves the room muttering "Effin Phone Company")

faster100