Cable Modem

[Badbry]

Is There A Way To Speed Up A Cable Modem?

(Media One Roadrunner)

Slow Download.......50-70kbs/sec....

Thanks,
Bryan

[rtyp3]

Yeah, check this out: http://www.tweakfiles.com/networking/intellidialup.html

[neo_otyugh]

www.speedguide.net (http://www.speedguide.net) has a lot of good tweaks as well...my peaj download so far has been 950 kilobytes a sec...average range is 150-350 kilobytes/s

[Nixona]

I've got an @Home cable "uncapper" for uploading. It supposively works, I just like messing with the @home guys. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif You type in the MAC address of the Cable Modem, and some other stuff, and it reassigns your gateway address. Pretty neat stuff. I don't know where you can get it though, I'd be happy to email it to somebody to host it.

[jad1097]

Nixona, What modem do you have? Did you get this from one of our other members?

Hell just e-mail it to me.

[GroundZero3]

i heard that those kind of programs can attucally slow your connnection down. Just putting my 2 cents in
JaYsin

[SysOpt]

Nixona: one of our forum members stole a version of that hack and called it his own. In the end, it worked for a couple people for a day or so but then ceased working. My guess is that the cable provider monitored it closely and closed whatever loophole allowed it to work.

[jad1097]

Interesting.

[neo_otyugh]

that program was also only supposed to work on lancity modems. it also placed some wierd keys in your windows registry. i spoke at length with a road runner technician and he basically told me that the entire system limits upload speeds, at best i can get 384k uploads and he said that was near the fastest possible.
as far as download speeds there are a lot of limiting factors. i have set my maxmtu to 1500, adjusted rwin for faster browsing, assigned ram to the irq my NIC is on, as well as a few other tweaks. the best burst i have gotten was 950Kilobytes/s, and i average above 150kB/s. a lot of it depends on where i am downloading from though.

[Toadman]

And it was incompatible with Motorola cybersurfers I and II, the preferred @home modem on the west coast.

[shadow]

I have used the tweak at this site, it improved the speed somewhat and it's easy to do. http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/cable_dsl.htm

Also try this IE tweak if you dont mind being an internet hog.

In Windows 9.x
1. Open Regedit (Start-->Run--> and type 'regedit' [without quotes] )
2. Navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\InternetSettings
3. Create the following "DWORD" :
MaxConnectionsPerServer
4. Set the value to any high number such as 10 (the default is 2)
5. Creat the following "DWORD" :
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
6.Set the value to any high number as well such as 10 or 12(the default is 4)
More explanation: See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/1/10.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0