Oops they did it again. Comcast

[Nemesys]

Earlier this year Comcast went from 3Mbps to 4Mbps.
Now they have added another 2Mbps for a speed of 6Mbps.
My speed is 6334Kbps on Windows XP, but for some unknown reason I can only get 3700kbps max on Windows 2000.

Now $45 is starting to yield some justification.

[I4one]

Earlier this year Comcast went from 3Mbps to 4Mbps.
Now they have added another 2Mbps for a speed of 6Mbps.
My speed is 6334Kbps on Windows XP, but for some unknown reason I can only get 3700kbps max on Windows 2000.

Now $45 is starting to yield some justification.

Have you tried DrTCP on BOTH and view/compare the settings for each ?
it doesn't make sense b/c I can get 5mbps using win98

[Stratus Fear]

Awesome, people talking about broadband speeds. There's nothing better than living on a good college campus for Internet speed. Highest I've done on a speed test here was about 23Mbps, and the reason it wasn't higher is because the test servers for the most part are slower than my connection. I've downloaded things around 5 to 6 megabytes per second before on good servers That translates to close to 50Mbps. I'll miss this when I graduate...

[Pailin]

Gotta love those free upgrades

I'm on Blueyonder here in the UK.

Started on 1Meg

Free Upgrade to 2Meg

I Upgraded to 4 Meg

Now Free Upgrade to 10Meg coming sometime around the end of this year

Paying £45 or $79. Pretty happy with that.

[Nemesys]

Have you tried DrTCP on BOTH and view/compare the settings for each ?
it doesn't make sense b/c I can get 5mbps using win98

DrTCP came up with blank windows in both 2000 and XP so there is nothing to view/compare. The only thing it detected was my network card.

It appears that I can hit the 6Mbps mark in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, but I can only hit 3700-3800 Kbps in Windows 2000 and in Windows 98SE it's even less at 1800Kbps.

I suspect it's the cable modem. I never had these issues with my previous cable modem, just this Motorola.

I tried several recommended tweaks from several of the broadband sites and all of them cut my speed even more dramatically.

I'm through playing with the Registry. Every tweak just makes it worse.
It is what it is, I'm done.

[I4one]

First of all - what in HELL is this thread doing in the General Hardware forum ?

DrTCP came up with blank windows in both 2000 and XP so there is nothing to view/compare. The only thing it detected was my network card.

It appears that I can hit the 6Mbps mark in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, but I can only hit 3700-3800 Kbps in Windows 2000 and in Windows 98SE it's even less at 1800Kbps.

I suspect it's the cable modem. I never had these issues with my previous cable modem, just this Motorola.

I tried several recommended tweaks from several of the broadband sites and all of them cut my speed even more dramatically.

I'm through playing with the Registry. Every tweak just makes it worse.
It is what it is, I'm done.

:frown: :sad: :frustrated:
ooops - maybe it's not for 2K/XP then ...hmmm

DrTCP is a Registry tweaking tool (but GUI ) for all those various settings you see - so it's much faster (except for the reboots for settings to take affect)

Use/Try these settings for 98;
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rone/DrTCP.png

I too have a Motorola modem (Surfboard) - and here's a recent Test D/l and I'm getting 719KB/sec
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2.../SpeedTest.png
PM me ...if you want the access code from browser to view the modem settings/config/tests/status

I have you beat there. 8MB/s for $40 (including tax). It's 1MB up.

...erm - unless you're on some kind of college/university welfare program.... that's 8mbps son - the CAPITAL B = MegaBYTE -
Lowercase b = Megabit (8 bits to 1 BYTE).....though usually both [MB] is used for megabyte -- and [mbps] is used for megabit

note - not too shabby at all though, 8mbps translates to 1000KB/sec download - compared to my 5mbps or ~612KB/sec down