What am I doing wrong to get cruddy speeds via cable modem??

[sparker11]

Can my setup on the mboard or Windows XP be effecting my speed??

I'm getting a cruddy 300-400 Kb/s for download speeds. I've tried with and without a router.

I did notice that my laptop (Windows 2000) gets a little better download speed (around 400-500) but still pretty bad.

I tried to play RtCW and the servers tell me my ping is too high (doh!) ... I have Comcast cable.

I did build a box and complete it late last week. However, the problem seemed to occur a few days after it was complete.

Windows XP Pro
Athalon 1800+
Epox 8KHa+
512 PC2100 DDR RAM
Linksys 10/1000 bit Lan
ATA 66 Hard Drive
Hercules Geforce 2 Pro 64 Meg DDR Video

If I missed any info you need let me know!

[jakeslim]

Download the cable tweak from site below. It works great, nearly doubled my speed from 300 to 550....


speedguide.net

[sparker11]

Does the tweak actually decrease pings? I went to play a game and was told no my ping is too high .. *** ... I got cable!

[sparker11]

Here is a trace ... I'm guessing the 51 ms to the first hop isn't good and the Request timed out is even worse ...

Comments???


1 51 ms 51 ms 52 ms 10.142.8.1

2 * * * Request timed out.

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 * * * Request timed out.

5 * * * Request timed out.

6 * * * Request timed out.

7 54 ms 56 ms 54 ms 68.82.0.50

8 68 ms 68 ms 69 ms sl-gw4-spr-6-1.sprintlink.net [160.81.249.73]

9 67 ms 65 ms 66 ms sl-bb10-spr-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.21.49]

10 81 ms 86 ms 82 ms sl-bb20-chi-11-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.246]

11 82 ms 82 ms 82 ms sl-bb22-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.6]

12 82 ms 82 ms 82 ms 144.232.8.186

13 86 ms 84 ms 82 ms so-4-0-0.mp2.Chicago1.Level3.net [209.247.10.169]

14 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms so-3-0-0.mp1.SanJose1.Level3.net [64.159.1.129]

15 139 ms 142 ms 145 ms gige9-2.ipcolo4.SanJose1.Level3.net [64.159.2.138]

16 139 ms 140 ms 138 ms cust-int.level3.net [64.152.69.18]

17 139 ms 142 ms 138 ms ge-1-3-0.msr1.pao.yahoo.com [216.115.100.150]

18 138 ms 141 ms 140 ms vlan28.bas1-m.snv.yahoo.com [216.115.100.122]

19 136 ms 141 ms 138 ms rc3.yahoo.com [216.115.109.7]

[ua549]

Your first hop to 10.142.8.1 is on your own LAN.
The ping time should be show as 0 or less than 1ms.
Check the error stats for your nic.
Open a command window.
Enter netstat -es

[gkline]

Sparker: Did you call Comcast and have them check your Cable signal. They did that for me and it needed fixed. Moreover, you might have a bad Cable modem. Are you renting from them? I get up to 1500KB/s. Comcast in our area is new and they are limiting the download speed. However, you should be getting double of that speed!