Is there a way to tweak cable settings?

[Greco101]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/177143239.png

Download :up:
Upload :down:

[Computer-Geek]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/175157172.png

http://www.speedguide.net
Try downloading TCP Optimizer http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php to see if it might help.

[crenn]

Can I have your internet connection?

[calumc]

greco to answer your question it cant. these speeds are set by the cable company and cant be shanged by you

[Greco101]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/177179182.png

It helped but nothing too crazy with upload speeds. Also, it SEEMS slower than before yet the test says different?

EDIT: What crenn says... god damn! Verizon?

[Zephik]

I'm lucky to see 90kb/s download, but holy hell! Almost 30,000kb/s download?? Thats insane!

Who the heck are you with Computer-Geek? and how much are you paying? lol

*ah, it says Verizon. Duh. lol. I have Verizon DSL, I think I need to upgrade. :hurt:

[Greco101]

I didn't even notice that haha. I figured he had verizon... they don't offer it in my area :o(


I'm lucky to see 90kb/s download

:O

[Computer-Geek]

That speed was a joke i thought you would figure it out easily :D
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1641/speeedtest2fs2.th.jpg (http://img184.imageshack.us/my.php?image=speeedtest2fs2.jpg)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/177296184.png (http://www.speedtest.net) << Thats my real speed I wish my internet was as fast as what i posted.

[Crazy Buddhist]

TCP Optiizer will max out your connection.

You can also do the following:

1/ Make sure the modem is as near to the main phone entry point as possible and not at the end of long internal extensions. If it is at the long of external extentions then solder all the interconnecting joints within your house (with silver solder).

2/ Replace your internal telephone wiring with Cat5/Cat6 Ethernet cable (its shielded standard phone wire is not).

3/ Make sure your telephone wires don't run parallel to electric cables for long lengths.

4/ Download and use DMT to tweak your modem's signal to noise profile and get more that way. This is an experimental procedure that takes time. You need to let the connection settle between ajustments or the modem the other end may take all the reboot's/resyncs as a sign of line instability and try to reverse what you are doing. Make sure you get a DMT version that is compatible with your modem.

At the moment I have the following speed and I haven't completed step 2 above yet. I have done tests that show me my download speed will be nearer 14,000 Kbps once I have ensured my internal wiring is right: thats a 50% speed increase just from ensuring the max efficiency of the internal wiring of my house. People often underestimate this factor.

EDIT: from Verizon:

"4. What affects my connection speed?
When you connect to the Internet using Verizon FiOS, the speeds that you will experience will vary based on a variety of factors, including the following:

* Configuration of your computer
* Home networking configuration, number of home computers and other networked equipment using the available bandwidth at the same time
* Network or Internet congestion
* Server and router speeds of the Web sites you access
* Condition of the wiring at your location"

http://www.freedomforall.net/SPEED.jpg

Thought I'd try the same test as you for comparison and as you can see I am getting a 3-5Mb improvement over the average of the users from the same ISP because of the measures I have taken. I am not close to the exchange so that isn't why.

http://www.freedomforall.net/SPEED2.jpg

So ... contrary to popular opinion - yes - there is a great deal you can do to max out your line. This was even true in the days of dial up. In the UK telephone systems were set to provide a 1dBa gain between the exchange and the house. If you telephoned BT and asked them nicely they would up the gain on your line to 4. At that point 56K modems connected at 60+ kbps and download speeds upped enormously as there was no packet loss.

CrazyB

ps these results arent fakes lol (and the difference between 1 and 2 is that I forgot I had NOT YET run TCP Optimizer on My Windows XP install: It can make a huge difference.

[Computer-Geek]

Wow thats some good info there CrazyB :D + rep I cant wait to get off wireless.

[crenn]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/177474574.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

My internet is running a little slow tonight, proberly the wireless and also it's a shared connection. Normally get about double that.

EDIT: I should run it on my phone for kicks, that should make a few of you guys get shocked XD

[Mitternacht]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/177484026.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Whoa....

[Greco101]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/BlackS3ven/CoxSD1.jpg

I wonder if cox messed something up accidentally made me uneven or something... I mean... 26,000 to 550? How the hell does that happen? lol.

[Crazy Buddhist]

Greco

http://www.freedomforall.net/COMPARE.jpg

Spot the error? How can your 23010 Kb/s have aglobal rank of 88% and my 13907 kb/s have a global rank of 94% ?????

CrazyB

[Crazy Buddhist]

I wonder if cox messed something up accidentally made me uneven or something... I mean... 26,000 to 550? How the hell does that happen? lol.

You should almost certainly have a higher upload speed if those download speeds are right.

CrazyB

[Greco101]

I'm pretty sure the ranks are grouped by provider. Is the low upload speed the cause of my higher latency? I don't know how that stuff works... I Know during a game or something, there's downloading and uploading going on at once so I'd imagine that has a lot to do with it.

[Crazy Buddhist]

I'm pretty sure the ranks are grouped by provider. Is the low upload speed the cause of my higher latency? I don't know how that stuff works... I Know during a game or something, there's downloading and uploading going on at once so I'd imagine that has a lot to do with it.

No mate those highlighted ranks are the Global rank, all ISP's, all countries. I'm wondering if your upload speed is counting against you on that somehow.

Your slow upload speed definitely won't be helping make the most of your gaming experience. I would contact cox and discuss the results with their tech support to see if it is within normal limits. Such a discrepancy seems very odd. In fact they only seem to offer a maximum 12M upload 1M download service in your area so your results seem really off the wall.

[Luke122]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/177553611.png

Not bad.. I bet if I did this from home it would be higher. :D If I did it afterhours here, it would DEFINITELY be higher.

Greco, try rebooting your modem.

[Mysteriphys]

speedtest.net O.o really???? :-/

I've worked for two cable co's as a hsi tech support, THE BEST test I've ever use, and continue to use is http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Here's why:
http://www.audiofoolz.com/mysteriphys/Untitled-1.jpg
thats also while I'm downloading Ubuntu ultimate 1.4 gamer DVD from the European mirror #1

not to meantion a few other things possibly...

mind you it probly helps that I tinkered with the connection on there end when I worked for them and after 6 months they seem to still have not noticed :-P but still, east coast canada ftw!

p.s. it helps to check all the locations too, because the closest location doesn't necessarily have the biggest chunk of fiberoptic between you and it. (helps to know for different file hosting servers as well)

i used the NY host btw there seems to be alot of fiber inline all over north america to this location I checked this out from my ex's connection when she lived in hollywood and still got 3rd best

[Greco101]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/BlackS3ven/trgdgvf.jpg

Well, speedtest.net wasn't too far off?

[Crazy Buddhist]

speedtest.net O.o really???? :-/

Any particular reason you don't rate that one?

[Mysteriphys]

http://www.audiofoolz.com/mysteriphys/Untitled-2.jpg
same location, half the bandwidth. O.o

http://www.audiofoolz.com/mysteriphys/Untitled-3.jpg
"recommended server" closest location, still just over half. I don't think they're looking for an optimized line when they do their download/upload test.

but back on topic, as far as optimization goes, if you don't have a job, you could always apply to be hsi tech, then fudge your settings from work :-P,
aside from that truly optimizing if you're having latency issues anyhow, would mean calling up your provider and telling them that your signal is unsatisfactory and having them come to the tap near your place and turn up or boost the gain on the line for the modem, if it's separate from the cable input. which usually isn't the case. if it's a motorola modem you can check the signal through the IP on the modem, and check it online against recommended gain and frequency specs I'm pretty sure the ip is mostly the same via all modems, but there are always companies that want to do things differently. exceptions to the rule kinda thing. if you do want to check that you have to be really careful what buttons your clicking kuz it's easy to burn a modem messing with the settings on it. (if it gives you any options for settings anyway). if you're going to go that route you'll have to PM me, I don't want to be held responsable for ppl flying into their modem settings and going willy nilly on them :-P... I know that stupid IP by heart >.<

[billygoat333]

holy zombie thread. dude this thread is 3 years old.

[diluzio91]

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[BuzzKillington]

lmao



Upload speed is 1.70 kbps
Download speed is 0.60 kbps


So the hamster in your modem jots down individual bits on a piece of paper, folds it up into packets and carries it to the carrier pigeon at a nearby window with coordinates to the connections PC?

[x88x]

He's a pioneering early adopter of the RFC1149 Avian Data Transfer method! (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt) Of course, it only makes sense that on each end the read/write is handled by highly trained hamsters.

Either that or he's stuck in 1984 on a V.22 modem.