Cable modem tweaks?

[Champo41]

I read on a site about doing some tweaks to the registry to up the speed on a cable modem. Can anyone confirm? I'd give it a try, but I want to hear what the folks here at AT think first.

 

[AlphaIVT]

SpeedGuide.Net

Just download the patch and it'll do all the registry tweaks for you!

To give you an example of how much it improved MY connection...
I was downloading at 25KB/sec off a server, the RR tech downloaded the patch, and I was zipping along at 25OKB/sec. Fast!

 

[IBhacknU]

my advice:

1. benchmark your ul/dl performance
2. manually make tweaks
3. benchmark new ul/dl performance

If the performance is better, leave tweaks and be happy. Otherwise, get rid of them.

 

[konichiwa]

I've never found a tweak that really does anything to my cable modem. If only it wasn't capped @ 128kbps upload.

 

[Viperoni]

I did a review on my friends site, which happens to be down right now, on some tweaks from speedguide.net

 

[AlphaIVT]

Konichiwa,

hahahahahaahahahahahahaha. I'm loving my 50KB upload, its great.

 

[Champo41]

Okay, went to speedguide.net, now I need to know which patch everyone downloaded. There's one for @home, but there may be problems with streaming video.

Again, thanks!

 

[ltk007]

The only tweak I use is the one that lets IE download more than 2 files at once. I don't really need anymore.

 

[Raspewtin]

Go here. Check out the tool center and the forums, they have a ton of utilities (DrTCP, etc), speed and security tests. Check the forums for good equations for setting MTU and RWIN. I've found programs that do it for you are rarely as good as doing it yourself based on your ping/throughput.

 

[Champo41]

Well here is what I want to improve, so maybe someone can find the right patch.

Right now, I'm downloading a .shn at about 20 to 25k/sec. The highest download I've ever gotten is around 60 (consistently, for a few minutes of a small download). But it hangs around 20 with normal downloading, around 10 to 15 on Napster (but that has to do with the other person's connection).

Also playing Counter-Strike is horrendous. I can play for a while, but then I get a CL_FlushEntity packet and my ping shoots up to 5000. On my old modem, it was always around 250 or so, yet on cable, I can hardly play. Wasn't there some kind of console command to type to lower the ping and things like that?

So which patch would be right for me?