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Hi reverend: If I put up a dish I like your systemof lightening rods the dual ones sound like a good idea.On old style outdoor television antennas they had what they called a lightening arrestor.I haven't looked for anything like this for a dish but I bet something like this is available .The only dish I have is a small one for television.I just use an amplified indoor antenna for local channels since neither dish service offers all of them. :idea:I did have one hint I learned in a saftey class at a garage where I was a mechanic.If you do find yourself clamped on to a wire lift the opposite foot up off the groundfrom the hand you have clamped on the wire.This allows the current to run down one side of your body so it doesn't cross your heart.I have not personally tested this nor do I plan to but it as supposed to help. :cool:Cholla

Hi Microwave:I will take a look at the archives .Should I use search to find the benchmark testing?Did the tests include dial-up? :)Cholla

Hi Microwave: I see you're thinking about the slow testers like me.I almost always use the smart test.But I have used the all.It never kicks me up a notch by itself.From the lone forum member with only 56K as far as I know anyway if there are others I have not been able to get them to post at least not since I joined the forum.also known as :lol:Cholla

Hi all: I did these tests within 10 minutes from the same computer same connection & no different settings,Check out the varience specially in the upload speed .Obviously they can't all be right The testmy.net ones are the ones I beleive to be correct .I would like the upload from Speakeask that actually gives the results at broadband.com when finished but I know better. 2005-01-17 00:20:02 EST: 32 / 83 Your download speed : 33461 bps, or 32 kbps. A 4 KB/sec transfer rate. Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked? Your upload speed : 85653 bps, or 83 kbps. http://dfw.speakeasy.net/ MySpeed Results Download 121,840 bps Upload 17,808 bps http://test.lvcm.com/ :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 58 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 KB) Download Speed is:: 7 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 1 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 146.29 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=WOSBT584N :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 14 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 KB) Upload Speed is:: 2 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 0 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 512 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=9Z38GFIPH Cholla

hi speedy final: this ones mine fromhttp://test.lvcm.com/ [test.lvcm.com] Server Status: OK Connecting From 216.167.143.133 MySpeed Results Download 122,600 bps Upload 17,936 bps Cholla

Thanks again VanBuran: I will contact my ISP .Heres a definition of POP I copied for those like me who didn't know exactly what it was.2) Short for point of presence, an access point to the Internet. ISPs have typically multiple POPs. A point of presence is a physical location, either part of the facilities of a telecommunications provider that the ISP rents or a separate location from the telecommunications provider, that houses servers, routers, ATM switches and digital/analog call aggregators. If this isn't exactly correct I did copy it not write it myself. Cholla

hi VanBuran: I only took this test for fun.How would I do a test from my local POP I will try that to.Just don't know how. Thanks Cholla hi Microwave: I do post tests from this site sometimes till I think some get tired of seeing them I've slowed down a little on this.I already consider testmy,net the most accurate test I have found.The others are fun when you have the time. Cholla

Thanks VanBuran that probably explains the better speed some where the data is being compressed.I doubt that my modem or computer is capable of doing this.It would have to be my ISP.If they are & not charging me for it I have no complaints. :)Cholla

Hi speedy final: I should be lucky enough to have your speed. I went to the test site on your link these are my test results I only coppied the stats.It takes up less space & I'm not sure I can do a copy like you did mines lust copy & paste.I got a program from the reverend I am going to install to see if I can make better copies when I want to.I don't know why it says connection class 128K I only have 56K regular dial-up & have already been accused of faking my speed this morningat a different post. :cool:Cholla Connection Class : 128K download start time: 1105903717940 download end time: 1105903727930 download time: 9.99 download size in thousands of bytes: 100 estimated line speed (K bits per second): 84.1 estimated line speed (K bytes data per second): 8 Edit:I added it to my favorites so I could try it again later to see if the results change.

Hi VanBuran: could you explain the TCP overhead to me.I'm still learning about the tech stuff.If my ISP is compressing it some way they are doing it for free & they don't advertise it.From my end I have a very simple older IBM computer with an internal controlerless modem on windows 98 se.The tweaks & this isp have given me this speed.As you know I tested slower at your test site in Sweden the test was larger & dial-up does slow down on larger test.. hi wingzero I went to my member stats but I didn't see any way you could see them without a link like on the one I posted.That only lets you see that test as far as I know maybe Van can tell us if this is correct.I did post another test in the guest book at VanBuran's

Heh wingzero2309: I don't know how to prove I a'm just on regular dial-up.I do not always get this speed but do a lot of the time.All I can tell you is I pay $9.99 for my service I don't know of any ISP that gives you accelerated service for that.This is not the only test I have done at this speed. I don't know if you can look at my other tests here taken over several days.I have no explaination for why I get better speed than I should other than my system is tweaked . Cholla

hi reverend : I don't know if better grounding would attract lightning to a dish.Maybe if the dish was the tallest object in the area.Even then at least the good grounding gives the lighting a path to go.Better to melt your ground wires than to come along the coax and decide the one at the computer is the best ground rod it can find.I don't have any experence with a satellite dish other than for TV but I'm betting a direct lightening strike causes enough damage to to send you looking for a new dish even if you tried to insulate it instead of ground it,The coax is probably grounded to earth some way whatever the system you use unless you have purposly insulated it. Through the house electrical wiring if nowhere else .Even on an old 2 wire AC electrical system the common runs directly to earth ground this is the wire that runs from the meter to the ground rod .The only way around this would be a system ran completely on batteries. Cholla

hi lance49726: It's nearly impossible to ground something too good.Most of the time when it is not done as well or better than it has to be is cost.I don't have satellite so I don't know how much better grounding would increase performance on satellite.I have dial-up & I used a 6 ft copper over steel ground rod & conected a 10 gauge solid copper wire to my NID .This helped the phones & the computer.The phone company had it grounded to my outside water faucet.So spend the little extra on good grounding at least on your own system. Cholla

Hi reverend; Thought I would quote John Wayne as close as I can remember it." It's not always the man who draws fastest that wins the gunfight it's the one willing to draw aim.shoot & kill the other man".Looks like they drew fastest now you need to take aim & shoot to kill.Thats metaphorically speaking of course.Anyone that attacks you with their computer deserves what ever you can do to them in return. Cholla

Hello are there any other members on regular dial-up.I tried a poll & got very little response.As a matter of fact I would like to get that thread in Help!with the forum deleted the response was so poor.So if there are any other members at testmy.net on regular dial-up post some of your test scores here no matter how slow.If the response is too large CA3LE can just lock this thread.I don't think the response will be that many.If I am the lone member of the forum on dial-up then. HiHO Silver

Hi VanBuran: there are very few settings that are already in the manual settings.About 6

Hi VanBuran: I downloaded the cablenut & installed it as far as its .setup.exe so I could look at the read me ;then I checked the manual settings but did not save it .Then I checked out my registry .Just installing cablenut wiped out all the tweaks I had in the MSTCP & put what it wanted there.It might have put settings like Tcp1323Opts back in if I had given it the chance I decided not to.I didn't like the fact that it made changes to my registry before I could look at its manual settings & set what I wanted it to change.Uninstalling it even before going any farther it did not return the registry to its previous settings.This was caused only by the setup.exe .Thankfully I had my registry backed up & scanreg restore saved me. So cablenut is not for me. Cholla

hi VanBuran: Cablenut put some of its settings in the registry that were not there like BSDUrgent that wasn't there before so I must have saved it to the registry.It has been long enough that I can't say for sure.Since I no longer have the setup.exe for cablenut in my system I can't check this out but I remember there was something in the read me text or help about limited testing on dial-up with windows 98.This could have changed with a more current version of cablenut. Cholla

hi VanBuran: maybe I had too old of a version or the one I downloaded was defective. I know it did not add the "GlobalMaxTCPWindoSize" setting to my registry.This was not even in the registry until I added it.After I found this tweak on the web & tried it.I do not use every tweak I find & would give others the same advice .doing that can crash your system I found this out the hard way.Since my system is working well I probably won't use cablenut but to those who want to use it go for it I admit the problem could have been me. Cholla

heh CA3LE: do what ever you need to to keep testmy,net working at its best. Get rid of whats seldom used& keep what is used the most .For now I am going to vote for 1 month . Cholla

hi reverend: I learned to drive in a chevy but switched to ford a long time ago so here are a couple more for ford bad & good. Cholla FORD fix or repair daily first on race day

hi VanBuran: I like both ways I tried cablenut I didn't like the way it worked in my system so I uninstalled it.It might work great on dsl or cable.Probably why the site is now called dslnuts

This is how my Windows 98 SE is tweaked.You need to determine what RWIN ,MTU,&MSS your OS needs to use .Then you can add them to your registry .If you don't know how to get these values you should probably leave your registry alone until you do. First backup your system before tweaking so you can restore it if the tweaks do not work for you. I take no responsibility for your system if it crashes.These tweaks will allow you to make some adjustments to your system if you want to do it yourself.There are programs that will do this for you.If you use one of these this will allow you to see if the program made these adjustments to your registry.If you don't like the adjustment a program made you can change it.The program may back if you don't make adjustments to the program you are using to automatically make the adjustments for you.Some allow ajustments some do not.Since I can't know what you have installed you will have to decide what it will take for your OS to keep the settings you want.

Heh reverend really liked the page I made it to the end & survived heh indestructable: just copy the url in the address window then paste it where you want to . :

hi reverend : Thanks didn't mean to hurry you .I was just curious to see how available it would be on the web.It was only the .exe file the zips are usually better .I downloaded both .I will install & play around with them this weekend. Cholla