If you think I post a lot now, what until I get cable access!

------------------
65 coupe,351w,RPM intake,Carter625,shorty headers,2.5 exhaust, Flowmasters,C4,open 8" 2:80,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,Crager SS,Black Suede.
MEM#1240

Dial-up is one thing that you don't miss when you get rid of it.

Cable: GOOOOOOOOD.

The speed is nice it's always on.

Funny, I thought it would be faster than this.

quote:

---

Originally posted by: StevLaRiviere
Funny, I thought it would be faster than this.

---

Some things are much faster, but I'm surprised at some things that seem to be downloading/uploading at the same speed as before.

I thought everything would be click-click-click... {Like in the commercials}

Some stuff is faster, but some stuff is just as slow as dial-up! WTF!!!

Cable has to be one of the big lies of 2001.

After going to cable (which has a 512k cap) things come in a lot faster. A test site indicates the real baud rate hangs around 480-500 most of the time. (it varies) But downloaded files (music and pictures) come in at around 60k/second! This is continuous. It can peak up over 100 briefly before the "cap" kicks in. My wife can download a full length song in around 1.5 minutes.

Do you have Morpheus, or any other file sharing software running in the background? If you do, it slow things down a LOT! I don't turn it on unless I want to download things myself. You can right click on it in the toolbar to turn it off. A fast processor, and especially a fast video card make the machine more capable of displaying all that extra data much more quickly. My old 166MHz machine at work with a 2mb video card (which is hooked up to a T1 line) is quite a bit slower than my 550MHz Athlon with a 32MB TNT2 video card hooked up to cable.

Go to this site to check your actual download and upload speeds. My upload is capped at 128k, and generally runs around 100-115k actual.

http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1

Good Luck!
------------------
Mike Burch
66 mustang real street
302 4-speed 289 heads
10.63 @ 129.3
http://www.geocities.com/carbedstangs/cmml_mburch.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/silverstone/healey/367

I just tested mine I've been on DSL with the phone company for about 3 months now.

Download: 1187 kbps (vs an indicated connect speed of 1472 kbps) Still smokin!

Upload: 217 kbps

This is at a peak usage time. 6:30 pm central. I will try again at slower time.

Later,

Sam, kinda surprised that your work's cable is so slow. I would think a business account with a cable ISP would give you the faster connections. Heck, for that matter, why doesn't the company just get a T1?

1264(down)/355(up)kbps

I,ll wait for the translation

JOHN

quote:

---

Originally posted by n2oMike:
Go to this site to check your actual download and upload speeds. My upload is capped at 128k, and generally runs around 100-115k actual.

http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1

Good Luck!

---

Thanks for that link, Mike!

I got "** Speed 551(down)/369(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)"

That seems pretty quick. It must be my PC that's slow. {?}

quote:

---

Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Wow, John! I'm a little faster on the upload {the PC sending out}, but you are more than twice as fast as me on the download {the PC getting data in}.

---

I will assume that that is a good thing?

JOHN

quote:

---

Originally posted by n2oMike:
Do you have Morpheus, or any other file sharing software running in the background? If you do, it slow things down a LOT! I don't turn it on unless I want to download things myself.

---

I have Morpheus, but it's set to not share files.

I wonder if my ZoneAlarm is the problem? The tech that installed my cable said he didn't like ZoneAlarm and said it robbed too much resources.

quote:

---

Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
I have Morpheus, but it's set to not share files.

I wonder if my ZoneAlarm is the problem? The tech that installed my cable said he didn't like ZoneAlarm and said it robbed too much resources.

---

I was told the same thing Steve, got rid of zone alarm , and , only have norton 2002. Everything seems to work better and faster, from what it did before.

JOHN

If Morpheus starts up automatically when the computer is booted up, you can go to the start menu and click on "run". Then type msconfig. Go to the startup menu and un-check Morpheus. You do NOT want Morpheus running when surfing the web.

Just try it.

My old dialup, that said it was connecting at a "scorching" 26.4k, only tested out at around 17k download... compared to the new tested speed of this cable modem that's usually around 490k. It might not be as fast as some of the rest of you guys, but it runs WAY better then it did.

Good Luck!

quote:

---

Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
But you really need some sort of firewall with cable modems. They can access your files anytime.

---

As you know Steve I am a puter moron , but , my buddy is on the other end of that scale , and , he tell`s me that all I need is this norton 2002. It has all the security I need, he use`s the same one and has never had a problem , niether have I. Just thought I would let you know

JOHN

quote:

---

Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Thanks for that link, Mike!

I got [b]"** Speed 551(down)/369(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)"

That seems pretty quick. It must be my PC that's slow. {?}
[/B]

---

This is what I got with the ZoneAlarm shut off:
"** Speed 549(down)/380(up) kbps **
(At least 10 times faster than a 56k modem)"

Mike if you meant Morpheus, I always keep it shut off when I am not using it. It isn't on the tray to my right. I right click on it and shut it off.

"Tweak Tester II results

Your Tweakable Settings:

Receive Window (RWIN): 8760
Window Scaling: off
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: OFF
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1460
TTL: unknown
TTL remaining: 108

Input line speed for RWIN
recommendation
Looking good

Example 146000 byte download
Actual data bytes sent: 148920
Actual data packets: 102
Max packet sent (MTU): 1500
Max packet recd (MTU): 1500
Retransmitted data packets: 2
sacks you sent: 6
pushed data pkts: 26
data transmit time: 1.143 secs
our max idletime: 204.8 ms
transfer rate: 89761 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 718 kbits/sec
This is not a speed test!
transfer efficiency: 98%
A few re-transmissions seen"

I got my email working finally, the tech typed my account number wrong.

Whenver I connect, a little bubble pops up saying "Speed: 10.0 Mbps" Very interesting how it compares and how it performs each test. Some people posted faster download than upload times, I'm vice versa.

I ran the test again and it said:** Speed 224(down)/874(up) kbps **
(At least 4 times faster than a 56k modem)

and a third time:** Speed 223(down)/936(up) kbps **(At least 4 times faster than a 56k modem)

and a fourth time (yes, I was just curious)
** Speed 254(down)/994(up) kbps **
(At least 5 times faster than a 56k modem), back to what it got the first time.

and a fifth time (last one, I promise)
** Speed 254(down)/1015(up) kbps **
(At least 5 times faster than a 56k modem)

Dangit, meant to edit the last one, instead hit reply with quote, oops.

quote:

---

Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
It's getting much better, thanks to the EasyCleaner program Mike suggested and some other tweaks I've been doing.

---

Doh! Sorry Dave! I just noticed it was you who sent me the EasyCleaner link! Thanks again!

quote:

---

Originally posted by Snake:
Steve,
Have a look at this page go to downloads and dnld easy cleaner,small file,When you've got it dnlded the only two files you have to worry about are clean registry and unnecessary files,works great.Been using it for a couple of yrs.make sure you bkmk it,or put it on a floppy.
http://www.toniarts.com/products.htm

PS it's a freebee

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by sigtauenus:
Oh yeah, the new computer has a P4 1.5 processor and 526Mb of RAM. Maybe in my case the computer is faster than the connection.

---

I bet that's it exactly.

Here's my lastest:

"** Speed 551(down)/369(up) kbps **
(At least 11 times faster than a 56k modem)"

At least I'm consistant. It was my PC that was slowing me down. This thing flies now!

Thats my computer going through our network onto cable, will have to try it from the main computer sometime .

------------------
Tim

quote:

---

Originally posted by I65Stang:
** Speed 1464(down)/124(up) kbps **
(At least 29 times faster than a 56k modem)

Thats my computer going through our network onto cable, will have to try it from the main computer sometime .

---

124 kbps? Man, that's a slow upload compared to your download. Bummer.