Problems with 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.

[BC]

make sure that he is actually getting this 17meg file in under a min. If this is true then there is something great about his connection. 80 kb/s is about normal. Sometimes (usually) it is the site that you are getting it from too. (the file that is). Yours sounds about right.

[BC]

make sure that he is actually getting this 17meg file in under a min. If this is true then there is something great about his connection. 80 kb/s is about normal. Sometimes (usually) it is the site that you are getting it from too. (the file that is). Yours sounds about right. Or he is real lucky

[BC]

make sure that he is actually getting this 17meg file in under a min. If this is true then there is something great about his connection. 80 kb/s is about normal. Sometimes (usually) it is the site that you are getting it from too. (the file that is). Yours sounds about right. Or he is real lucky

[BC]

make sure that he is actually getting this 17meg file in under a min. If this is true then there is something great about his connection. 80 kb/s is about normal. Sometimes (usually) it is the site that you are getting it from too. (the file that is). Yours sounds about right. Or he is real lucky

[Collision]

U have cable modem & xDSL ? and what kind of system (O/S) u run right now...

Please be more specific.... I'll try to help you.. OK! [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

[SoopaStar]

Nice reply Bc...try hitting submit once instead of 5 or 6 times [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]
Chad: like I replied to Yoda's message...maybe your network card is to blame? I think that card you are using uses a RealTek 8019as (if its ISA) or a 8029as(if its PCI). I have seen MANY of these cards die. Hrmm..well SMC also makes thier own chips for NICs too. But, I have seen those die as well....in fact I used to own an SMC called an ether-16. Try a 3com NIC or a NetGear NIC. I have both of those running 1/2 the machines on my 20 computer network and no problems yet. if you check out www.pricewatch.com they have em both for around $30 or so I think.

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[wee96]

Collision, when did he say he had DSL?

[jamis]

Lets do some simple math...

The typically advertised maximum tranfer for a cable modem is 1.5Mbps .. Lets assume for a second, you actually GET that (Ha! Right!)

17MB / 60 seconds = approx 290K /sec

1.5Mbps = approx 187.5K / sec

So that means... to get that 17MB file in under a minute, your friend would not only have to sustain the maximum allowed tranfer rate.. but EXCEED it by close to 50% .....

I want what ever cable service HE has. [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]


Realistically though... you really should expect average transfers around 30-80K/sec with an occational 100+K/sec assuming no set caps by your cable company (I believe @home recently set a speed cap) and a fast site on the other end.

[Fuzzy Z]

I just wanted to let you know of a site I have found that offers patches & tech info on how to speed up cable modems. In return please post if you experienced any differences after trying some of the suggestion/patches on this posting. I really want to know if it helps with other systems as well. Thanks friends!!! http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Fuzzy Z]

I just wanted to let you know of a site I have found that offers patches & tech info on how to speed up cable modems. In return please post if you experienced any differences after trying some of the suggestion/patches on this posting. I really want to know if it helps with other systems as well. Thanks friends!!!http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Fuzzy Z]

I just wanted to let you know of a site I have found that offers patches & tech info on how to speed up cable modems. In return please post if you experienced any differences after trying some of the suggestion/patches on this posting. I really want to know if it helps with other systems as well. Thanks friends!!!http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Fuzzy Z]

I just wanted to let you know of a site I have found that offers patches & tech info on how to speed up cable modems. In return please post if you experienced any differences after trying some of the suggestion/patches on this posting. I really want to know if it helps with other systems as well. Thanks friends!!!http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Fuzzy Z]

I just wanted to let you know of a site I have found that offers patches & tech info on how to speed up cable modems. In return please post if you experienced any differences after trying some of the suggestion/patches on this posting. I really want to know if it helps with other systems as well. Thanks friends!!!http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Fuzzy Z]

I'm sorry about the additional postings. I'm still getting use to IE 5.0 and this site. I didn't realize it was doing multi-postings.
Thanks!