sholsten

Well, I finally got to put in the new card. It is a Linksys. I'm running the cable modem through the onboard NIC. I set it down to half duplex 10 and this is a typical test tonight. My wife's comp is getting net access through the new NIC on mine and she maintains 4K+ downloads almost everytime and I haven't even tweaked hers. That tells me the speed is there, but this machine evidently doesn't like the XP SP2 5000/384 cablenut settings for some reason.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 2632 Kbps about 2.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)

Download Speed is:: 321 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Sat Feb 26 00:02:20 CST 2005

Bottom Line:: 47X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.19 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 82.15 % of your hosts average (rr.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-02GOVZSC7

Thanks in advance for helping me with this.

Thanks...

I was afraid of that. I'm going to get a shower and go buy an ethernet card. Should I hook up the modem to the onboard ethernet port or to the card I'm going to buy?

Thanks for the quick reply:

I'm sorry, but I should've explained things better about my setup. I have the Motorola modem coming into my system through a USB 2.0 port. I use my ethernet to connect to my wife's computer on a home network so she can use the cable net and my printers. She's not worried about speed like I am.

Steve

.::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 4932 Kbps about 4.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)

Download Speed is:: 602 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Fri Feb 25 11:57:29 CST 2005

Bottom Line:: 88X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.7 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 54.27 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-8CD34RLUX

Occasionally I'll get an excellent test like the above, but I mostly get like below

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 2889 Kbps about 2.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)

Download Speed is:: 353 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Fri Feb 25 12:20:17 CST 2005

Bottom Line:: 52X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.9 sec

Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 90.37 % of your hosts average (rr.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-P2CW97SHR

I did the Cablenut peak using the XP SP2 5000/348 file. I also changed the RW setting to 384000 to get the pages to load faster.

What else can I do?