Tweeking Cable Modem

[globalempire]

I came along this site at www.speedguide.net and it had a progam to tweek your camble modem.Well I did it and it took my bandwith from 740 to 3600, I would have everyone who has a cable modem get it. It really easy to install.Just run the Quest @home progam restart your computer and its done.Nothing to it and if you do not like it go to your add/remove programs and uninstall it.Works great Ive had it for about 4 month and I ve had no probles at all.In fact It really rocks for online gaming it speed up everything.So cable users go get it.....ITS FREE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[duragezic]

I second that. I also tried the Quest@home even though I don't have @home but it really works well.

 

I've been running Speedguides tweak for over a year now on my system
Been rocking ever since

 

[Wolfman35]

Depending on your Cable Provider, If they "See" your bandwidth use they may start throttling your connection. Cable is very Useage dependant for bandwidth allowances and when you bypass the Cap you over-ride the allowances for others on your node. In other words ... Your gain is someone elses loss and if that someone else complains .... They cap you at the router. Awesome speed increase tho. Can you tell whether it was RWIN or MTU that gave it the real gain?? Also what did it do for your Upload speeds? I know some Cable users that Lose Upload headroom when they tweak download speed.

 

[hungrypete]

Some Good Info Here

 

[Deceiver]

Our cable modem providers have already capped us, making sure everyone in the node gets the bandwidth they ordered. Will this program work in my case?

 

[Snoop]

Wolfman, actually, if you use windows 2000 or windows ME, you do not need the speedtweaks because those operating sysmtems are already configured for high speed internet. On the other hand, windows 98 is not, and without the tweaks, your bandwidth is badly handicapped.

 

[Jank]

Sounds good, but don't tell my neighbors !

 

[globalempire]

No upload gain Just download..still worth the gain though going from downloads of 150kbs to 300-400 kbs...Ill take that any day

 

[MichaelD]

You guys all suck! I'm stuck with my dial-up connection. I've never downloaded any faster than 6kb/sec. 99% of the time, I download at exactly 3.6kb/sec. Why 3.6? I've no idea, but that's what I get. I'd give my left leg to download at 150kb/sec.

I'm moving in April, so I can't get DSL, because there's a one-year in the same location service agreement. $250 fine if you move. Ouch. So go aheah, keep complaining that it takes you poor folks a whole 5 minutes to download a 100mb file. Sheesh, the patch for DeusEx (38.5 mb) took me almost 4 hours. Just jerking your collective chain. (sniffle) I just wanted....someone to....listen to me......(sniffle) No harm meant! Cheers.

 

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Move someplace else

 

[formulav8]

The only tweak that increases speed is the defaultrcvwindow. Those patches from speedguide ,ect. do many changes. All you need to do is put the defaultrcvwindow @ 32767

 

[loosbrew]

not true, the also do some maxmtu changes that could affect your inet connection speed. if youre capped at a certain speed, then dont expect this patch to work. download/upload capps are set at the server end and cant be changed by you, legally . plus this doesnt have anything to do with what they give you...IE...if they see your getting 3400k down, they cant take it away from you, because you werent capped, you are just openihng the bottleneck on your end. the patch works mainly for win98, the other did nothing for my win2k. i also saw a large increase in bandwidth in winME but that is definitely debateable.

loosbrew

 

[formulav8]

MaxMTU only helps with packet loss. But the larger size you are able to send without a loss could help

 

[Viperoni]

Quick article I did a while back

 

[formulav8]

The reason the patches work is because it increases the DefaultRcvWindow size. Not because it changes the SackOpts, PMTUDiscovery, DefaultTTL, PMTUBlackHoleDetect, ect. In fact it can hurt speed. The only thing that needs to be changed is the DefaultRcvWindow and sometimes the MaxMTU.

 

[Taz4158]

<< DefaultTTL, PMTUBlackHoleDetect, ect. In fact it can hurt speed. The only thing that needs to be changed is the DefaultRcvWindow and sometimes the MaxMTU. >>


Absolutely true and it's repeatable in testing that many tweaks hinder rather than help speed.

 

[jjsimas]

I don't know why but I was able to increase my speed from a max of 153,000 bytes per sec to
182,000.

I have tried other tweaks before, MTU, MSS, RCVWindow, etc. The following tweak was the best..

I donloaded the iSpeed and the speedguide.net &quot;set back to Windows default&quot; *.inf.

I installed the speedguide.net inf, I opened iSpeed and chose the option to return to windows defaults. This erased all the TCP/IP registery keys, I think..

Then, in iSpeed, I set the MTU to 1500, the MSS to 1460, the RCVWindow to 1460*8, and the TTL to 32. (increasing the RCVWindow much beyond that decreased speed)

I had the best downloads ever. Testing with anonymouse ftp to ftp.javasoft.com, subdirectory of docs, file of tutorial.zip. I also tested with one other site, which confirmed the increase in speed.

With this tweak, the download jumps to 200,000 Bps within the first 3 seconds, then slowly decreases to 181,000 Bps. The best I've found.

Let me know if anyone can explain this...

Thanks,
Jason