Problems with my cable modem

[chadamir]

I dont't get as good speeds with my cable modem as my friend who lives down the street. He gets great speeds from the netscape ftp while I dont get as good. I get about 80 k /s tops while he claims he can download a 17 meg file from it in under a minute. My cable modem is setup correctly and I have a much better comp then him. What could be wrong and what should i do? I have a motorola cable modem and an smc ether ez ethernet card. If you can help please reply.

[grandslammer]

17 megs in under a minute? Hmmmmmm gimme one of those. I have a cable modem, and I thought 40 to 60 kb's/sec was outrageous. At my old 56k hookup, I averaged 4.5 to 5.5k/sec. So, when I jumped to this, I thought I was in heaven.

How much do you pay per month? If you top at 80k/sec, I can't see how you could be dissappointed at all... I think that's blistering!

But that's just my .02 worth...

Good Luck In All...

Mike P.

[This message has been edited by grandslammer (edited 08-23-99).]

[grandslammer]

Oh yeah, you can always go to your control panel, internet options, connections, lan settings, automatically detect settings, then okay. See if that helps, but like I said, I think you're clickin' along pretty well now.

C 'ya,

Mike P.

[TigerStrike2]

You can only get the 200KM/sec - 300KB/sec downloads off really fast servers.

ftp.pcgamer.com is one that I get good speeds off. Microsofts servers are really fast too. Try downloading from them.

[elite]

Call your provider and tell them to increase the bandwith in your area, just complain untill they do it. All they do is add a card in your area..

[martin777]

Go to www.speedguide.net (http://www.speedguide.net) . Then you can pass your friend.