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I think mostly you would need the updated drivers.The RAM might be a problem I don't think 95 will handle that much.

boywonder ;The cable I have runs Strait from the NID to a standard module phone jack on the wall with cat3.Then I made a cat3 cable with the regular phone cable plug ins.this runs from the wall to my surge protector (My surge protector has a place to plug in the phone cable as well as electric 115v grounded plugs)From the surge protector I have another phone cable made from cat3 That runs to my internal modem. I'm not sure what this would do Com01Irq04=115200 .The tweak for Com03Irqbuffer= 8760 and added Com03Irq18=115200 are to prioritize the COM to the modem.I use CAPS for COM & IRQ & also begin Buffer with a CAP.COM3 should be your modem COM if it is not you should use the COM port your modem is on for the COM in the tweak. On the NID mine has a regular modular line plug inside this is plugged in.It runs to the phone cables that run from the NID into the house.This is so you can unplug it & test a phone plugged directly in the NID.Thats why the phone company has it there.It is where you plug your PC in when connecting direct to the NID for testing.But you can't leave it that way because it disconnects the house phones.Some older NIDs are not wired this way.If you have one of the old ones complain to your phone company that you are getting line noise on your phones.They should come out & replace the NID.The reason for the complaint is they don't usually charge a service call for this.Keep in mind they really don't care about your PC & if line noise is affecting it. Below is a picture of an NID & how my cable to the phone jack to my PC is wired. Also a surge protecter simular to mine & some modular plugs to clarify what I mean.

I have CAT3 from my NID but Cat5 is about the same it just has better shielding .You are only going to be using 2 of the wires in most cases antway.Just make sure they are the same pair this is easy they should be the same color one with a white stripe.Run these from the NID to your module(jack) & Make a cable from there to your PC out of the CAT 5 too.You have to strip the cable a little futher back & make sure the right wires go in the right place in the module plug.A easy hint for doing this is just do it like a phone cable plugged into a regular phone cable the plugs should be opposite meaning looked at from the same side the wire colors are opposite. There are even CAT 6 & maybe CAT 7 by now but these shouldn't be necessary.When you run the wire from the NID try to get it a short as possible but avoid running it over florescent fixtures if possible the transformers in these can cause interference or line noise. I used a direct hook up to my NID meaning it doesn't run through the plug inside the NID that goes to the phones in the house.So if that plug is unplugged the PC isn't.I'm not sure what the phone company thinks about this .The Green wire should be the negative & the Red wire the positive.If you have a Multimeter(Volt meter) Ground to positive is approx 48 volts DC & Ground to negative approx 2.8 volts DC.Pretty low amps on phone cable unless lightening strikes while you are working on them.Anyway one of the regular phone wires run to the ground you will be able to tell when you open the NID.Usually a green wire.The other wire is the hot one usually red.If you have more than one telephone number the there are more wires connected.So if this is the case you need to determine which number(wires) you use for your PC.I hope I didn't over explain.

Maybe IE4 has a problem with this it has been showing up on the first testmy page for a few days. "Notice: SSI.php was unable to load a session! This may cause problems with logout and other functions - please make sure SSI.php is included before *anything* else in all your scripts! in /home/testmyn/public_html/forum/SSI.php on line 158" I use Windows ME & I use IE6 this is the latest version available for ME.I think there is a later version for XP. I don't have it on anything but i have 3.5 diskets for IBM DOS version 4.00, Windows 3.0, &Windows 3.11.A ghost type restore disk for Windows 98SE (its a peice of crap that came with the PC).

boywonder;Thanks on the Com03Irq18buffer=4096 try it COM03IRQ18Buffer=8760 The 8760 comes from 6 X1460 =8760 1460 being my MSS. You can try 8192 to see if it works better. Add this line too COM03IRQ18=115200 or what you use for Maximum speed in you modem properties. I'm not really just how effective the 16-bit app support is with XP but if it decreases performance you can just delete it.

Swimmer ; I have my Windows ME cd but I have still used files out of C:WindowsOptionsInstall file for convenience.They appear to be the same files.I can't say if this is the case with XP but worth a try.My OS isn't stored on its own protected partition. bburton86 ;Was cache.dll the correct file name?

bburton86 : Do you have an Options or CABs folder that this might be in inside Windows? You might try search for the cache.dll to see if it can find it but it doesn't always find it in the above folders even when its there. If you have cache.dll then select have disk but go to it in Windows where it is & run it. You can get some .dll files on the internet you might try that before a reinstall.

ROM-DOS; Can you get the system.ini notepad in XP by StartRun type in "system.ini" then hit OK? Same for win.ini. I just wondered if this worked for XP? I could post my system.ini file but it is long.

I've had mine set this way for a while I think that F8 was supposed to do this for ME but it never worked very well at least on my PC. btw those are all the boot options for ME

I have Windows ME so these may not be correct for XP ROM-DOS : I use this IRQ tweak.I also use these in system.ini: [386Enh] COM3IRQ10=230400 COM3IRQ10Buffer=8760 My internal modem is on COM3 I access my system.ini this way :StartRunsystem.ini OK This take you directly to the system.ini notepad instead of the tab in msconfig.I find this is a smoother way to tweak. These are in my win.ini which I access the same way. [Ports] COM3:=230400,n,8,1,x COM4:=115200,n,8,1,x COM2:=115200,n,8,1,x COM1:=115200,n,8,1,x

The following is what I get before Windows boots: Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu 1.Normal 2.Logged (BOOTLOG.TXT) 3.Safe mode 4.Step-by-step confirmation Enter a choice Time remaining (The caps are as the screen shows) If I have made some changes I get this message: "Please wait while Setup updates your configuration files This may take a few minutes Completed file updating, continuing to load Windows It doesn't show the autoexec.bat screen I guess what ROM_DOS awnsered is the way XP does this.What I like about the way Windows ME does it is it gives a selection for safe mode if you put 3 in Enter a choice.If you could do this in XP I thought it might help some that have trouble getting into safe mode.

bburton86: You could try scannow check the MS link below for this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747/EN-US/

This is for XP but if the registry key is in 2000 then you can probably change the MTU to where you want it this way.The PMTUDiscovery is in Cablenut. I made some changes in this I think this is better information. I find some conflicts of information on this .So I guess you need to try it both ways if you are having problems setting the MTU. EnablePMTUDiscovery When set to 1 (True), TCP attempts to discover MTU automatically over the path to a remote host. Setting this parameter to 0 causes MTU to default to 576 which reduces overall performance over high speed connections. Setting MTU overrides the default MTU for the network interface it is added to. Note that if EnablePMTUDiscovery is set to 1, TCP will use the smaller value of this local MTU and the "Discovered" MTU of the underlying network connection. If you'd rather use only the MTU value specified here, you'd have to disable PMTUDiscovery, which would prevent your system from detecting the network MTU. HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters EnablePMTUDiscovery="1" (DWORD - boolean, valid settings are 0-->False and 1-->True. Many connections perform better with this entry at 1, however, if you prefer to set your upstream to send fixed 1500 packets, you might want to use 0 instead). When set at 1, establishing connections and initial transfer speed might slow down a bit, however you will get better throughput if somewhere in the path large packets need to be fragmented. To modify the PPPoE MTU size, create the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesNdiswanParametersProtocols0 Then add the following registry entries.Entry name Data type Value data ProtocolType REG_DWORD 0x00000800 PPPProtocolType REG_DWORD 0x00000021 ProtocolMTU REG_DWORD the appropriate MTU size (in decimal) To do this: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. 2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesNdiswanParameters 3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key. 4. Type Protocols, and then press ENTER. 5. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key. 6. Type 0, and then press ENTER. 7. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 8. Type ProtocolType, and then press ENTER. 9. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 10. Type 800, and then click OK. 11. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 12. Type PPPProtocolType, and then press ENTER. 13. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 14. Type 21, and then click OK. 15. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 16. Type ProtocolMTU, and then press ENTER. 17. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 18. Type the appropriate MTU size (decimal value), and then click OK. 19. Quit Registry Editor. Notes

php those are the msdos.sys file the first screen is how to open the file so it will let you edit it.. The second screen is the edit msdos.sys screen.Another OS might not want all the settings in mine but the Logo=0 & BootMenu=1 are probably alright.I would like to have the 98 boot menu because it is longer I'm not sure it would actually function though. This is a screenshot of my autoexec.bat

Can you do this in Windows XP? I have done this in my Windows ME. 1.Go to folder options from MY Computertoolsveiw check "show hidden files & folders" 2.StartProgramsAccessoriesMS-DOS Prompt 3.In the MD-DOS screen type what is in the first screen shot below. 4.In the second screenshot type logo=0 like in the screenshot. This should give you a black screen on startup instead of the windows logo screen This black screen has information in it sometimes. In mine I also have BootMenu=1 this gives an easy way to go to safe mode.

Windows Update still works for Windows ME I don't know if it does for 98 or 98se.I don't think any of these have tech support anymore but if you pay MS might.

boywonder : Good hint on unplugging the satellite box.This is the receiver box for DISH or Direct TV.If you leave it plugged into a wall jack & your PC is on the same line (not just the same jack) you will get a slowdown & sometimes more disconnects.The only thing it needs to be plugged in for is ordering pay for veiw or accessing your account for customer service .The rest of the time it can be unplugged.Mine is most of the time & I haven't had any problems receiving the channels or gotten a letter from DISH.So that makes at least 2 of us that had a slowdown from the satellite box being plugged in.

To show the accuracy of the NDT tests here is how it reads my dial-up. WEB100 Enabled Statistics: Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 123.16Kb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 113.79kb/s ------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------ Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found. Link set to Full Duplex mode No network congestion discovered. Good network cable(s) found Normal duplex operation found.

Gib4500 : Read & do the things in this sticky it is the first step in getting help. http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0 After that it never hurts to contact your ISP & make sure you are getting what you are paying for meaning that your modem is not capped lower than what your paying for.

My ISP is just OK so I wouldn't recomend it.I just hate to try another one that might be worse. Mine blocks ping & tracert so I can't do them.Their plus is the techs are local so I don't have to talk to someone in India.

asubaseball727: Heres the tutorial the link wasn't complete http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=890.msg8017#msg8017

DMN;Maybe this will help with changing the MTU I didn't ask but I assumed you have XP. .I didn't find 3 pages of options for Internet Tweak at the link or anything about xD. A lot of the information below is for PPPoE but I think some of it can be applied to Dial-up so XP will use MTU of 576 & MSS of 536 for dial-up.When this is what is wanted. I find some conflicts of information on this .So I guess you need to try it both ways if you are having problems setting the MTU. EnablePMTUDiscovery When set to 1 (True), TCP attempts to discover MTU automatically over the path to a remote host. Setting this parameter to 0 causes MTU to default to 576 which reduces overall performance over high speed connections. OR Setting MTU overrides the default MTU for the network interface it is added to. Note that if EnablePMTUDiscovery is set to 1, TCP will use the smaller value of this local MTU and the "Discovered" MTU of the underlying network connection. If you'd rather use only the MTU value specified here, you'd have to disable PMTUDiscovery, which would prevent your system from detecting the network MTU. The above information seems to conflict. HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters EnablePMTUDiscovery="1" (DWORD - boolean, valid settings are 0-->False and 1-->True. Many connections perform better with this entry at 1, however, if you prefer to set your upstream to send fixed 1500 packets, you might want to use 0 instead). When set at 1, establishing connections and initial transfer speed might slow down a bit, however you will get better throughput if somewhere in the path large packets need to be fragmented. To modify the PPPoE MTU size, create the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesNdiswanParametersProtocols0 Then add the following registry entries.Entry name Data type Value data ProtocolType REG_DWORD 0x00000800 PPPProtocolType REG_DWORD 0x00000021 ProtocolMTU REG_DWORD the appropriate MTU size (in decimal) To do this: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. 2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesNdiswanParameters 3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key. 4. Type Protocols, and then press ENTER. 5. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key. 6. Type 0, and then press ENTER. 7. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 8. Type ProtocolType, and then press ENTER. 9. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 10. Type 800, and then click OK. 11. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 12. Type PPPProtocolType, and then press ENTER. 13. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 14. Type 21, and then click OK. 15. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 16. Type ProtocolMTU, and then press ENTER. 17. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 18. Type the appropriate MTU size (decimal value), and then click OK. 19. Quit Registry Editor. Notes

DMN:Unless the changes in cablenut change the MTU then I don't know maybe ROM can help you with this when hes here. I'm not much of a fan of tweak programs they mostly make system changes for you you can make yourself & may make some changes you don't want. But I will give it a look.

DMN; The shortest phone cable from the PC to the wall is best .But you need to have it usable not many will use a cable so short they have to set the PC on the floor by the wall jack On this setting if you don't like the way it performs change back to 1.EnablePMTUDiscovery = 0 On the phone cable if you can make your own with twisted pair CAT3 or Cat5 they are the best quality.You probably already do this but your modem internal or external should be the only thing plugged into the wall jack.& no phone plugged into the modem .Most have a place for this but it lowers performance.

DMN some of the information in this MS article may help trobleshoot & fix your network places. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825826/en-us I think the regedit settings in this link are not for XP but 98 &ME. http://www.webnovice.com/dec00/modemoverclock.htm The only way to find your line or loop distance then will be to call your telephone company.You need to talk to a tech. I will do some checking into compuserve but the few disconnects sounds good. Your ISP is probably setting the MTU at 1400 but it could be something else maybe ROM could help with this.I think he had to get his to work at 576 for gaming. Have you installed cablenut?The settings below in cablenut may help this.It makes the settings in the registry for you. TcpWindowSize = 6432 GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize = 6432 TcpRecvSegmentSize = 536 TcpSendSegmentSize = 536 EnablePMTUDiscovery = 0