I just doubled my Cable Internet speed.

[Jason1]

Maybe you can too. When we first got Cable, I used to get 2.0Megabits per second, then about a year ago I dropped down to 1.0Mbits for no apparent reason. I was fooling around last night, and I discovered Cable Tweaking. I went to http://www.cable-modems.org/articles/speed_tweaks/ and downloaded the Windows 98 tweak. I tested before I downloaded the tweak, and I tested again after, and found no change in speeds. I figured It sounded too good to be true, and it was getting late, so I shut down for the night. This morning I tested again, and about **** my pants. 2.4Mbits per second! I havent gotten those kids of speeds for months. I tested again, and OMFG 2.2.

Probably a lot of you allready knew about this tweaking thing, but If you havent, give it a try. You have nothing to lose. Its the best half a second download ive ever installed.

[Null]

i used to know what it did. you can do it without downloading anything. its just changing a number somewhere.

but really it doesnt do a whole lot. and its hard to say when it does. like you said it was about the same when you did it right away. whos to really say you wernt going to get that speed this morning when you didnt run that program?

Then again if the setting on your PC was down for some reason it would help, internet speed is a tough thing to judge, expecially cable. goes up and down so much. I usually average about 2.8

But thats cool if your speed is up. helps for games. hehe

[Jason1]

Originally posted by Null
i used to know what it did. you can do it without downloading anything. its just changing a number somewhere.

but really it doesnt do a whole lot. and its hard to say when it does. like you said it was about the same when you did it right away. whos to really say you wernt going to get that speed this morning when you didnt run that program?

Then again if the setting on your PC was down for some reason it would help, internet speed is a tough thing to judge, expecially cable. goes up and down so much. I usually average about 2.8

But thats cool if your speed is up. helps for games. hehe

Maybe, but the thing that convinces me is the fact that I test a LOT, like ever other day, and I havent gotten a result even close to that for MONTHS. And I just tested again, 2.4 again. I truly believe thats what did it.

[Null]

it prolly did. considering your on win98

then again. it could be a holliday weekend and people arent using the internet :D

lol its cool man. im just messin with ya :)

[GameMaster]

Don't up it too much. Cable companies monitor for people who do that. I believe it takes away from other people's speed in your region too.

Linux and Mac users need not do anything.

Oh yeah. :D :cool:

[Null]

Originally posted by GameMaster
Don't up it too much. Cable companies monitor for people who do that. I believe it takes away from other people's speed in your region too.



Oh yeah. :D :cool:


no, what your thinking of is uncapping the cable modem, or messing with its settings.

he's talking about a windows thing. Basically it has to do with the Network. being able to let full speed come thro your network lets the full speed of what your cable modem is giving you come into your pc at the same time.

hsi modem is still producing that speed. iti would be his windows limit that was slowing it. has nothing to do with cable company

[vurel]

I've read about this before... what it is doing is setting the packet size to be the biggest size the network will allow.... a packet smaller than the max size will waste the difference between the packet size and the max packet size... a packet that is too big will be split and the difference between the remainder and the max packet size will be wasted (I wonder if making the packet size a multiple of the max size would result in the same benifits as setting the packet size to the max size.... would proboably increase latency due to the extra processing to split and reassemble packets)

A way to picture it would be putting potatoes through a pipe... the goal being to put the most potato mass through the pipe in a limited amount of time.... you can only throw one potato every second, if the potatoes you are getting are too small then the space around the potato is not being filled and is wasted, if the potatoes you are recieving are too big, you must first cut them into chunks that will fit in the pipe, most of the chunks would be the size of the pipe, but the last chunk of each potato (almost always the second chunk because potatoes are usually within a reasonable size range,and thus every other chunk thrown down the pipe) would be wasting the unused space. but if every potato was exactly the size of the pipe then you would achieve the most efficient possible transfer of potato mass.

I apologise for the extreamly odd analogy... but i think it does help explain what is going on... there is no reason why the cable company should object to this sort of tweaking, you are using the same bandwith... just more efficiently... your potatoes are still going through the pipe at a rate of one potato per second and the pipe is still the same size.

[Mushlafa]

I've read a bit about them a while ago when i was desperate for more speed... anyway.. all i know is that the CP tweaks out there do next to nothing...

Garbage ass xp :(

[Null]

thats not XP, thats your internet speed

you can NOT create faster speed when your internet isnt giving you that speed.


in the cases for people who try this and it actually works... all its doing is opening the hole so to speak so all the speed they are sending him can actually fit in.

in your case it would be your holes wide open and your speed is getting thro with a lot of space left to spare. :D :p

[GameMaster]

Has anyone here tried uncapping? What did it feel like? Did you become haughty and arrogant? Did you find yourself bragging to inanimate objects?