Poor Cable performance EDIT: Speeds fixed, new problem...

[Poncherelli]

I recently signed up for comcast cable internet service in MD because i was fed up with poor performance and service from Verizon DSL. My nextdoor neighbor has the comcast cable service too, so i ran some speed tests and line quality tests from his house and he was getting about 1.1mb down and 125kb up from dsl reports. I was only getting about 450kb down and ~80 up on my dsl, so i switched services a few days ago. The cable works fine and I get great pings in games (20s now whereas 50s before) and 125kb upload, but my download is sucking terribly. I'm only getting ~350s kb download for some reason. I have an Sb4100 modem, Linksys BEFSR41 router and onboard lan on MSI 415 mobo. I checked with my neighbor and at the same time i'm getting these 350s downloads hes still around 1mb. I have my RWIN set around 300,000 right now and my MTU is 1500 like dslreports recommended. Can anyone think of anything that may be hurting my dsl speed? Thanks.

 

[Poncherelli]

bump, speed still sucking and cant figure out why.

 

[dakata24]

RWIN is 300,000.. isnt that alittle high? mine RWIN is 17520 running fine on my ATTBI cable 1.5Mbps download/256Kbps upload. i get close to ~1.45Mbps. if you had like a 3Mbps connection, it recommends a RWIN of ~30,000, but nowhere near the 300,000 you have set.

take this tweak test from dslreports.com and adjust accordingly.

 

[Poncherelli]

I've run the tweaktest at DSLreports a million times. I now have my RWIN set to 63556 or whatever the max is without scaling. It still suggests changing the RWIN input line (but it has for pretty much every value between 4000 to 400,000). Anything much lower than 60k though and i get a delay warning and am told my rwin is too small. So for now, 63k is fine. I completely disabled PC-Cillin which i used to have running with all web scans and whatnot running and now my downloads are testing about 1.2mb down! However, i dont like the fact that I have to completely disable my virus protection to get proper download speeds. Anyone have any insight on how i can get high speeds and still protect myself? Thanks.

Heres what my speeds did just from disabling virus protection:
2002-06-04 01:40:10 Speed test (lax.speakeasy.net) 1120/122 kbps
2002-06-04 01:35:40 Speed test (la) 1023/116 kbps
2002-06-04 01:34:55 Speed test (ec) 1279/115 kbps
---- **disabled at this point**
2002-06-04 01:29:04 Speed test (atl.speakeasy.net) 353/120 kbps
2002-06-04 01:24:40 Speed test (ec) 354/100 kbps
2002-06-04 01:18:05 Speed test (ec) 353/118 kbps
2002-06-04 01:16:46 Speed test (ec) 354/89 kbps
2002-06-04 01:15:56 Speed test (ec) 351/119 kbps
2002-06-04 00:56:05 Speed test (la) 322/123 kbps
2002-06-03 23:51:09 Speed test (la) 308/121 kbps
2002-06-03 23:50:11 Speed test (wc) 1131/118 kbps
2002-06-03 03:51:46 Speed test (ec) 246/121 kbps
2002-06-03 03:50:04 Speed test (wc) 847/117 kbps
2002-06-02 16:21:40 Speed test (la) 319/106 kbps

 

[boyRacer]

go to speedguide.net... or cablenut.com downloaded the registry patches and optimizer after you backed it up. dslreports and speedguide.net offer differing views about your rwin... the correct one is the fastest one for YOU.

If you want to be protected but slightly keep your dl speed... go get a software firewall... tiny or outcast... check out zonealarm and black ice but some people don't recommend the last two. go to grc.com to check your firewall after you've installed it. good luck.

 

[Poncherelli]

I have a hardware firewall in my BEFSR41 router don't I? I thought that it eliminated the need for something like zonealarm. PC-cillian has is more a virus program i guess with pop 3 scans, web filters something, real-time scan and it always says something about blocking malicious java and active-x commands when i open a web browser (assuming i have it enabled). Do i need all those options that jsut seem to slow down my connection, or does the hardware firewall have me covered and i just need to keep real-time scan enabled for virus protection. I dont really know much about these things, so i appreciate your help.

 

[boyRacer]

hardware firewall and the xp firewall blocks incoming hits only... you would need a software firewall to see outgoing requests from annoying spywares and the likes ... ugh... :| i guess you would need an AV program if you want a real time scan of your system. i don't know much about routers but maybe you can tweak that too. go see the people in the forums of the sites i gave you... those guys are obsessed with broadband.

 

[AKA]

Do you really need the virus scan running all the time?

Are you downloading and getting email 24hours a day?

Or is there another member of the household you dont trust? hehe

I don't let my virus scan run except for the email scan when my wife uses the computer under her account.

I only accept email from who I know and I can always right click and tell virus scanner to scan right on the spot. Do the same thing for downloads.
With backups its never anything to stress over.

 

[mboy]

You def. do not need to have it scan all the time for web stuff. leave it on full time scan and pop3. Thats it. Virus and Firewal are different animals. I have my fulltime virus scan, ZA pro. Linksys router w/ wall watcher logging on and I get 5Mbps d/l 1Mb up on OOL. Thats with a very old SB2100D modem!

 

[Slaughter]

Make sure you set your MTU on your router to 1500. I found that solved some speed issues and connection freezes with fast net transfers.