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I think I'm getting screwwed by my internet cable service Time Warner. I was a bit confused between the difference between kilobytes and kilobits. I disabled my Norton Personal Firewall and ran the speed test provided by TWC. It shows that my connection is running at about 60 kilobits. I called tech support and they said that my connection was only slightly better than a 56k modem, but that when they pinged my connection they got a 10 milisecond ping response. The technician said that they suspect that there is a problem with either the RJ cable that runs from the modem to the computer or that the ethernet card is bad.
My computer is an AMD Athlon 850 with 256 megs of ram (if that makes any difference). Also, my original 56k modem is still connected so that I can send faxes from my computer only.
It seems that there was something in my Windows Registry that was throttling back my connection speed. I found a site that had some suggestions for tweaking cable modem connections....
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Here in rural America I get 26,400 usually, and on occassion we get up to 28,800. I'd love to get one of those fast connections, and I'm thankful for what I have.
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Rick..I live out in rural Canada...Used to be lucky to connect at 28.800 with a 56K modem. Terrible phone lines, too much noise in the line.
All of a sudden the local rural independant phone company, that is also an ISP, decided to get into DSL. I was their first DSL subscriber.
Bottom line...Same phone lines...DSL consistently connects from 300K to 500K. I don't know how it works but it does.
I just checked my speed on a test site..tonight I am geting a connection speed of 430K and that apparently translates into a download speed of 52.5k/second. With my old dialup I never got above 3 k/sec download speed, so that is about 17 times as fast. I am, after 18 months on DSL a VERY happy camper!
Glenn....a bit of advice...I used to have NetZero installed for the odd time when my DSL connection went down in the early days of it's availablility here. BIG mistake..NetZero is known to change the registry settings for "packet size" and will dramatically reduce DSL or cable speed. I had to do what you did...use a speed checker and re-set the packet size in the registry to take advantage of DSL. Just thought I would mention it Glenn.
[ November 11, 2001: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
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I have DSL as well here at the shop and I can swear its slowed down , how does one chech his packet size and throttle up his max band to the DSL router.....
-------------------- Benji McEntire Harrison Graphics/Signs of America Harrison, Arkansas 72601 signmaker@cox.com Posts: 70 | From: Harrison, Arkansas | Registered: Nov 2001
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You can do a speed check and then you can also go to their "FAQ" and "tweaks" pages to apply the correct "fixes"... AND they DO work!
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