I just got cable today! Few ?'s...

[amdforlife]

I had dsl for about a year...then 56k for about 2 weeks...now cable. I have to say, so far DSL was better. Cable would be better, but my upload is capped. Where is that capped from? Anyway to remove the cap? Any good cable tweaks? How about some handy trivial facts about cable modems?

 

[Platypus]

www.dslreports.com

Go to tools. Dont remove the cap on your upload, the company will shut off your cable.
There are some good tweaks in that website.

or www.speedcorps.com(net)

 

[sparkle]

Well, most areas the upstewam cap is 128K, which is usually the same deal with residential DSL. There used to be an "uncapper" i had but it no longer works due to network upgrades

 

[pulse8]

It's capped on their end. No way to uncap it.

 

[Ryan]

Cable modems are usually capped at whereever the modem actually connects to (like @home's servers, I think).

These are good sites:
http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/
http://www.cable-modem.net/
http://www.cable-modems.org/

 

[frizzlefry]

The term they use is the 'head' end. Its on their side that oyu get capped. The reason for the cap is so that you don't start server which I believe is against use policy by @home. But this is the main reason for the cap. If everyone had uncapped UL speeds, you would see alot of problems with bandwidth, collisions, general slow downs. But too bad you guys have a cap of 128. mines around 300

 

[amdforlife]

yeah..servers are against policy. i dont really wanna start a server, but a 128k cap is bull. They claim they wanna save bandwidth for dload space..but im not fallin for it...

 

[MrCodeDude]

We need DSL / Cable / Anything here. We only have Sprint Broadband, but they've been having a TON of downtime (my neighbor has them as his ISP) and it isn't that much better than 56K other than in downloads. Which is only 10x faster or so.. Well, that's my little rant.
-- mrcodedude

 

[Axman]

try this site it gave me a big increase in speed CableTweaks

edit - I have Optonline and they did try to cap us at 128 but sooooooo many people (mostly online gamers) complained that they increased it to a meg which works great.
After I did the reg. tweaks at the site I linked to my download speed increased from about -- ftp.netscape.com download before reg. tweaks 195 to 230, after reg. tweaks 250 to 600 depending on the time of day , I have also hit over a meg but I don't remember what site I was downloading from, BACKUP you registry before you try these tweaks
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