Speed up internet connection

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Very little

by jackson dougless Jul 19, 2007 7:48AM PDT

Outside of things like running a caching proxy like Squid... Which only really helps with web page loading... If the max download speed of your connection is around 30K/s, that's all the more you're going to get, period.

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(NT) What's the advertised speed?

by Coryphaeus Jul 19, 2007 9:04AM PDT

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Advertised Speed

by pcwiz100 Jul 19, 2007 9:34AM PDT

The only thing it says is "4 times faster than dial-up". I don't know how fast that is.

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Ok. . .

by Coryphaeus Jul 19, 2007 9:39AM PDT

Is this still dial-up or something else? We need specifics. Do you have DSL or cable?

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Clear explanation

by pcwiz100 Jul 19, 2007 9:54AM PDT

OK,

Its not dial-up, its just lower speed cable internet (the cable modem connects to an ethernet port on the back of the computer). It's not DSL neither dial-up. When I download, the speed varies between 20Kbps-30Kbps. I just want to know if there is any way I can boost up the speed.

Thanx

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Try this. . .

by Coryphaeus Jul 19, 2007 10:46AM PDT

Go here http://www.dslreports.com/tools and do these in the following order:

Speed Test
Tweak Test
Dr. TCP

This has helped many members.

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Another option I've found very helpful.

by caktus Jul 19, 2007 11:20AM PDT

TZ Connection Booster. It's free, clean and simple.

Hope this is helpful.

Charlie

BTW, I'm not familiar with how cable Internet service works. But at 20-30kb/s I could almost wonder if there's anything at the other end of the cable.

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Results

by pcwiz100 Jul 19, 2007 1:39PM PDT

Speed test
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Download speed: 189Kbps
Upload speed: 118Kbps
Latency: 60ms

Tweak Test
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1. Your Tweakable Settings:

Receive Window (RWIN): 65535
Window Scaling: off
Path MTU Discovery: OFF
RFC1323 Window Scaling: OFF
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1460
TTL: unknown
TTL remaining: 118
TOS/TOS subfield: 0
TOS/Flags:

2. Test Download

Actual data bytes sent: 1151021
Actual data packets: 790
Max packet sent (MTU): 1500
Max packet recd (MTU): 1500
Retransmitted packets: 87
sacks you sent: 345
pushed data pkts: 142
data transmit time: 40.135 secs
our max idletime: 682.0 ms
transfer rate: 24882 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 199 kbits/sec
transfer efficiency: 88%

3. ICMP (ping) check

Target unpingable

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What should I do next? I don't know what to do with Dr. TCP.

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Dr. TCP. . .

by Coryphaeus Jul 19, 2007 9:10PM PDT

After you run the Tweak Test, note the recommendations. Install and run Dr. TCP and make the changes recommended. Save them and reboot. Run the Speed Test again.

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Dr TCP works with '98 but not XP

by Steven Haninger Jul 20, 2007 6:14AM PDT

Win 98..especially OSR1 didn't deal with broadband. XP does a nice job. My personal experience with Dr TCP is that it does nothing with XP but can really help '98.

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OK

by pcwiz100 Jul 20, 2007 6:24AM PDT

I didn't run it yet. I knew it was outdated because you can't find the utility on the main dslreports page. You have to search for it on Google to find it.

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No

by jackson dougless Jul 19, 2007 10:47AM PDT

If you're downloading large files, such as a game demo, there is absolutely nothing you can do to speed up those transfers beyond getting a faster service package.

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thats high speed?!

by AmericanTexan9999 Jul 19, 2007 9:53AM PDT

i dont know what ISP's r in your area, but i have ATT dsl internet (second to lowest plan) and our max speed is 768kbps! and the price is only 30 or so bucks a month!

that speed must be some kind of mutant dialup.

but as one person said if thats your speed, then thats your speed, it can go no faster

i reccomend upgrading your package or getting a diff isp

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There seems to be

by El Alquimista Jul 19, 2007 3:37PM PDT

some confusion here. You said your download speed was about 30 kbps (kilobits per second), If you got this figure from the Windows Download box, it is actually 30 kBps (kilobytes per second). As a byte is 8 bits, your actual download speed is then about 240 kbps. Yes, it would be better if Windows reported download speed in kbps, the standard for interenet speeds; this might eliminate the confusion that arises when people overlook the significance of the capital B.

Apparently no one bothered to check out the Shaw High Speed Lite service. Their advertised speed is 256 kbps, so your actual download speed of around 240 kbps is entirely consistant. The 189 kbps download speed from dslreports is also consistant. The advertised speed is generally the maximum; this is lowered by traffic on your local cable, traffic on the Internet, and the number of "jumps" the packets make. I generally do my speed tests after midnight to minimize these effects.

Another point where confusion may have arisen is the speed of your cable service. Here in the States we are not used to such slow speeds from cable, or even from DSL. Here the more typical low end is about 1500 kbps. That is why some seemed to doubt that you actually had cable. BTW, we are getting that speed for about what you are paying.

What can you do to increase your speed? I see only two possibilities. One is to upgrade to Shaw's High Speed Internet service. This would about double the cost, but would give you almost twenty times the speed. The other possibility is if your phone company has DSL service in your area. If so, it might be five or six times faster, but I don't know the cost. Personally, I would opt for the first option.

Hope this helps some

Frank

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(NT) Thanks

by pcwiz100 Jul 20, 2007 2:53AM PDT

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