DanM

ok hehe yeah i know how to login to the router and change it to 1500...i'll do everything else and post the results here

can't do that vanburen...it's too impractical to bring it all the way downstairs.

i'm sorry to keep replying to my own thread heh...not trying to be egotistical here... here's a weird thing...when i use TCPOptimizer...it tells my MTU should be 1492: The largest possible non-fragmented packet is 1464 (1492 - 28 ICMP & IP headers). You can set your MTU to 1492 It tells my my latency is: Ping statistics for above hosts: Packets: Sent = 15, Received = 12, Lost = 3 (20% loss) Approximate round trip times (RTT) in milli-seconds: Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 116ms, Average = 54ms So when I plug that into the RWIN calculator, it tells me 67500 is the best RWIN/BDP... Isn't that a slow RWIN? And why would it tell me to only do a 1492 MTU?

very weird...starts off fast..and then gets incredibly slow

this is my new broadbandreports test: http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:593a6d7?service=cable&speed=9999&os=winXP&via=normal

ok... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 3162 Kbps about 3.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 386 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Wed Aug 3 04:16:46 EDT 2005 Bottom Line:: 56X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.65 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 49.32 % of your hosts average (optonline.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ZOXPQJBM5 for some reason...bringing it to 1500 MTU doesn't work and makes it very very slow...but 1492 seems optimal. how could that be?

Is there a way to find out what my DRTCP settings were before I did anything? Because neither the old settings nor the ones from what you gave me work now, and I undid cablenut...didn't do anything with the NIC. The 'old ones' are just what i wrote down the first time i ran DRTCP :(

yeah...i've been restarting but not powercycling.... weirdest thing...it will start off fast but then get slow when i turn my computer on....but i'm playing around with it

well using your settings of the time it went very fast...the only difference being MTU is 1494...it's now just as fast again. is tcp receive the same as RWIN?

so it just seems to me...the cablenut tweaks work well when the MTU is 1494...but not when it's at 1500?

ok...what i did was change the MTU back to 1494....and now it's very fast again: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 3070 Kbps about 3.1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 375 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Wed Aug 3 02:58:14 EDT 2005 Bottom Line:: 55X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.73 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 47.86 % of your hosts average (optonline.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-9VR0JDNQ2 ????????? all i did was go back to the settings you had given me from the time it worked, except with these settings in DRTCP: tcp receive 64240 path mtu yes window scaling no blackhole detection default timestamping no max duplilcate ACKSs selective Acks Yes TTL 64

HELP HELP HELP i don't know what happened...it's now REALLY slow...I tried changing my RWIN in DRTCP and then I ran Cablenut with the optonline settings and now it's :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 166 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Download Speed is:: 20 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Wed Aug 3 02:44:47 EDT 2005 Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB download in 51.2 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 2.59 % of your hosts average (optonline.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-2TVO9IYLN :( what should i do??? i tried to get back to how it was before but it's still slow

ok i will do that, thanks again

so using the calculator from this FAQ: http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/tweaks/5.%20RWIN, maybe my RWIN should be

btw not sure if this will help, but i pinged ucla.edu (i'm on the east coast, so i picked a west coast college) and i got this Ping statistics for 169.232.56.135: Packets: Sent = 42, Received = 41, Lost = 1 (2% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 117ms, Maximum = 140ms, Average = 120ms