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so what can i do just call Cox and say "you have too many customers in my area, get rid of them!" ?

at 8AM this morning using your tweak I maxed out at ~8.5Mbps......but now it's 4:30pm and it's below 1Mbps looks like it's too much congestion....... bellsouth DSL is 3Mbps at most and it's only a little cheaper than what I currently pay Cox and I used to have them and wasn't thrilled with them either....oh well I might like Verizon FIOS, but I'm in an apartment so even if it was available it wouldn't be allowed

i just woke up and it's 8AM and here's my results with my current tweak.... Your connection is: 8524 Kbps (about 8.5 Mbps) You downloaded at: 1041 kB/s Your TRuSPEED: ^info^ 9121 Kbps :: 1114 kB/s (7% overhead factored) Bottom Line: You are running: 152 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 0.98 second(s) Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 132.77 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) but I know by this afternoon my download will drop to under 1Mbps

my thread's been hijacked! ok now this is crazy.....all day Sunday my download has been <1Mbps and now it's 2AM here and it's down to 500Kbps how is it that I can tweak it so perform at 7Mbps in the early morning hours one night and now I can't even break 1Mbps!!!

last time I called they asked me to power cycle and they told me to change settings in IE then I told them I used firefox and they said they'd have to send a tech out.....but we know how that is gonna go "don't tweak your settings" or "i can put in a new modem if you think that will work" or "no problems on our end" or "those online speed tests aren't accurate",etc. those CSR people are completely incompetent and I doubt if they send out a tech they'll be much better

TOSHIBA PCX2600 like I said in the early morning hours today I maxed out at 7 or 8Mbps and consistently over 4Mbps............isn't that a sign or congestion during the day limiting my speed?

just over 5 min. ......no improvement, now I'm about 1Mbps download

ok I'll change the memory settings per his suggestion....but like I said I already tried his tweak and didn't think those memory settings would have that big of an effect but I'll give it a try and report back restarting now

I'll try that right now...........are you saying to try it after every tweak or just when I get bad performance?

dude, why would lowering the memory settings make it go faster?....if anything it would go slower! my upload is fairly decent during the day and I reach close to 1Mbps at night

seems to be even slower...............I'll try again at like 3,4am and see how it does then... so if I acheive the 9Mbps and 3 in the morning, then that proves that I've tweaked it all I can and it can get no better..........but then during the day it might drop to less than 1Mbps........<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<so isn't that a clear sign of my area being way to congested or oversold? (so there's nothing I can do about it) doesn't that make sense?

^ some of those values look kinda weird to me.... but I'll give it a try, it's been less than 2Mbps on testmy.net here and it's almost 10PM are these your settings or did you make this for me?

Van Buren... 1. Windows XP Professional, SP2 2. Cox Communications, 9Mbps down and 1Mbps up 3. http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:423f7d?service=cable&speed=9000&os=winXP&via=normal 4. https://testmy.net and http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ give download speeds anywhere from less than 1Mbps to 2,3Mbps download, but it's 8PM here.....if I test at 3-6AM in the morning I almost always get well above 5Mpbs and max out at 7 or 8Mbps download 5. already did this 6. Using Firefox 7. connected via NIC 8. tried this several times 9. have spware and adware removal programs 10. no zonealarm 11. none of those firewalls 12. no viruses 13. windows up to date 14. have a similar cleaner program 15. I have the newest Cablenut but I've been making my own custom .ccs file

VanBuren....any advice?

try a power cycle.....call your ISP and make sure it's not a problem on their end too

try this... change your DefaultReceiveWindow to 768000 change your GlobalMaxTCPWindowSize, TCPWindowSize, and MaxFastTransmit to 90520

I played with RWIN a little more.... I'm on the east coast so I pinged a west coast college website ping -t www.ucla.edu -l 1472 let it run for 2 or 3 minutes, and got an average of ~100ms so 100 x 1.5 = 150 150 x 9000 = 1350000 1350000/8 = 168750 168750/1460 = 115.6 ~ 116 116 x 1460 = 169360 <<<so this is my RWIN so in CableNut I changed GlobalMaxTCPWindowSize, TCPWindowSize, MaxFastTransmit to 169360 sound about right?

mmmm I think I'll give that a try....I thought using the auto setting was a bad idea no router here hey, how do my cablenut settings look? in the early hours of the morning I at one point got as high as 7.5Mbps....but it seemed more consisently to bounce between 2--6Mbps in the afternoon it was more like ~3Mbps as of now it's 1Mbps .....isn't this a sign of congestion which I can't do much about or my area being oversold? on the cablenut settings you'll notice I upped the memory settings cuz I figured it might help a bit

I should've said I rebooted, and when I didn't see anything better I then tried power cycling something weird too......I used to have the NIC set to 100Mbps half duplex and when I tested at http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ I never got duplex mismatch settings.... now all of a sudden I get mismatch settings sometimes on half duplex and sometimes on full duplex.....so just out of curiousity I played with the 10 or 100 and half or full duplex settings for a while and now it "seems" like I'm getting better performance from full duplex but my results aren't consisent......so I'm confused

reboot a couple times since, did a power cycle too

Hey everybody, I just received an email from Cox yesterday saying my service was upgraded from 5Mbps/<1Mbps to 9Mbps/1Mbps. after I got the email I first I tried Van Buren's OOL 10,000/1000 .ccs file because it seemed like the closest match, but I seemed to be getting less than 5Mbps download... usually overall congestion affects my connection, but lately I had tweaked my connection to such a point that when I'd use testmy.net to test my download speed during the wee morning hours I'd achieve nearly 5Mbps download.....but during the day it would sometimes drop below 1Mbps So, I made my own .ccs file and I'm trying to come up with the best settings for my connection.....below is a picture of the settings I currently have on CableNut........anything look way off? also, in my network card's properties, where I can set the duplex option there's another option for "optimal performance" and I enabled it, but not sure if it will really help?