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I'm on my next door neighbor's computer with RR and they have 3 megabit down ***FIXED***

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: amdskip
What do you have and what is your setup? Is your neighbor like across the street?
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My neighbor is next door. It's actually my girlfriend's cousin's house.
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he was asking if other neighbors had the same service so you could see what their speeds were like.
 
Originally posted by: Ladies Man
maybe you are getting the same but your system sucks so you can't tell
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I'm just curious but what does my system have to do with my speed? It has nothing to do with the speeds.
 
I'm telling you, try DRTCP. It made my speeds go from around 1.5 to 3 on two machines running XPpro.
 
I'm gonna buy a cable signal booster (Motorola brand) and see if that is the case. If that doesn't work then I know the modem or my nic must be defective. Anyways the cable guys sent someone out for Thursday Dec. 4th. Thanks for all your help again.
 
there is a windows xp hack with cable that lets you get superfast speeds.

with my roadrunner, i get ~480kbytes per second down(~more than 4mb), 384 up.

Without the hack though, thats just how mine came for 40 a month.
 
Originally posted by: isekii
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Do you guys seriously think it could be a firmware thing holding the speed back lol?
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I'm running Roadrunner 🙂

3mb down/384k up

mine was automatic.

I have the Toshiba Cable modem.
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ours was automatic also we have a Motorolla surfboard Cable modem and a Lynksys router
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
How come I don't? They do but I don't. Can I complain to RR?

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I just wanted to let everyone know that Amused idea and program he told me to download, worked. I'm now getting the 3megabit speeds my next door neighbor is getting. The reason it wasn't working last night was because I did not reboot like a dumb ass.

Thanks Amused!
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You're welcome. 🙂 The DRTCP tweak is one of the first things I do with any new install of XP if the computer is going to have access to a 1.5 Mb or higher connection.

I agonized over this very problem for a few weeks when I went from 98 to XP before I discovered this tweak. It works like a charm.
 
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Hey that's pretty much what I suggested way back at the beginning and I got ignored! 🙁
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But the default in 9x is fine for a 2+Mb connection. It's XP that tends to throttle the TCP back and limit downloads to 1.5 Mb.
 
That's funny, I have RR with 3Mbit down and XP and I haven't had to do any setting changes to get it...


eh oh well.. hhe
 
Originally posted by: Slasher2k
That's funny, I have RR with 3Mbit down and XP and I haven't had to do any setting changes to get it...


eh oh well.. hhe
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For some reason, on some installs, XP sets the RWIN settings right. On some, it does not. It may have something to do with how you set your network settings, or with what NIC card you have. I don't know.
 
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