luwigie

That makes no sense. The number of people on in one geographical unit has nothing to do with the speed of the networks. It's the routing, and bandwidth available. It's more like, the more networks cram users onto the same routing, the less available bandwidth there is. Also, how about NYC? They've got OOL 10000/1000 for $45 and that is one of the most denesely packed geographical areas in the us.

If this is a medical emergency, please hang up, and dial 9-1-1. Who is your carrier, how are you connected to your modem, how is your line (phone, or coax) connected to your modem (1st splitter?), what have you attempted to make your system run faster, have you tweaked at all? Please use less explanation points, settle down, and answer these questions. Also, test from chi.speakeasy.net to see if your routing is just bad to testmy. How fast can you download from a site like download.microsoft.com

Get a X800 Pro, and 3 gigs of ram That will burn through about 3/4 of your money.

They are expensive, but they are fun to play with... For normal needs, you will just need a standard 10 mbps router. Even if you have ool, that's all that you will need.

The more expensive routers are generally for businesses, with faster connections, and more security needs. You will want to get a standard dlink, netgear, or linksys router, just a few of many companies, which can be obtained for less than $100 dollars. This will be used to allow multiple computers on one broadband connection. Then again, you can make a router out of an Alien Ware PC, and spend upwards of $2-3k, lol.

A laptop.

Where are you located? Can you do a tracert to www.ucaid.edu? That is about what I used to get at my school (there is a thread about the problem that I am having)

I think that the way he has it set up, it's actually one OS to boot into, but multiple boot screens... Just the pretty start up screen.

Sorry, I should have put in this comment. This is on a system that I have yet to tweak... I will post back later in the day with some tweak speeds and pings. Seeing this as my "stock" ping rate, should I still use the 100 mbps full duplex file and change that setting? I will be applying the straight tweak file first, and then modify the settings.

I think he means the first graphical screen that you see where Windows XP is shown in pretty text, and the loading status bar thingy is rolling. I have heard of people changing this, but I don't know how.

Tracert to testmy [code:1]C:>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms (internal router) 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (firewall) 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (external router) 4 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms (1st) 5 3 ms 3 ms 8 ms (2nd) 6 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms (3rd) 7 9 ms 20 ms 12 ms ge-1-2-0x25.nl-chi3.mich.net [198.108.22.148] 8 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms ge-4-3-0.r00.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net [206.223.1 19.12] 9 9 ms 12 ms 9 ms p16-1-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net [129.250. 5.77] 10 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms p16-1-1-0.r21.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net [129.250. 5.85] 11 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms ge-1-0-0.a00.dllstx09.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.2 8.167] 12 31 ms 37 ms 40 ms ge-1-1.a00.dllstx04.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.31. 44] 13 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms ge-9-3.a00.dllstx04.us.ce.verio.net [157.238.228 .38] 14 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms dsr2-1-v2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [12.96.160.39] 15 37 ms 37 ms 62 ms gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18. 116.69] 16 32 ms 34 ms 32 ms 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6] Trace complete. C:>[/code:1] Edited for my, and michnet's protection Also, this network is connected to internet 2. [code:1]C:>tracert princeton.edu Tracing route to princeton.edu [128.112.128.81] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms (internal router) 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (firewall) 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (external router) 4 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms (1st) 5 5 ms 6 ms 13 ms (2nd) 6 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms (3rd) 7 13 ms 23 ms 19 ms abilene-iplsng.mich.net [192.122.183.10] 8 26 ms 17 ms 22 ms chinng-iplsng.abilene.ucaid.edu [198.32.8.76] 9 39 ms 37 ms 50 ms nycmng-chinng.abilene.ucaid.edu [198.32.8.83] 10 44 ms 47 ms 44 ms washng-nycmng.abilene.ucaid.edu [198.32.8.85] 11 45 ms 44 ms 45 ms local1.abilene.magpi.net [198.32.42.209] 12 53 ms 45 ms 55 ms remote.princeton.magpi.net [198.32.42.66] 13 48 ms 50 ms 46 ms gigagate1.princeton.edu [128.112.12.21] 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * ^C C:>[/code:1] You can see how it hops over the east coast via internet 2. This was also edited for my and michnet's protection. The hops that were edited are private. Abilene is Internet2.

Yeah, I know. VNC isn't all that secure... The head sysadmin insists on using it though, because she has used it ever since Windows 98, which didn't have remote desktop connection. I tried to change her mind to use RDP on a new shipment of computers, but she ended up going around and installing VNC again... Also, she would rather get a free unsecure remote access system rather than buying anything regardless of security... The kids here are un-intelligent beyond belief, though. I won't say that's it's not possible, but I know that not one of the students has figured it out yet. I do find it incredibly useful for my home systems, however. Of course that is in a much more private environment... I especially love the price for home use (free)

Could I actually VPN if the sat was in my front yard?!

BIOS bootup?! Or windows XP?

There is no way to tweak a DW6000. You are stuck with the crappy uploads that the rest of us Direcway users are... It says "Up to" for a reason...

you could try a test from my server, which is in the same data center as testmy... http://www.luwigie.com/tests edit: download.microsoft.com is pretty speedy... Try to download SP2 redist from there (222 megs), and kernel.org is on gigabit from ISC, so it should be able to keep up as well...

What speeds do your neighbors get? Is everything exactly the same, carrier, modem, computer, tweaks, connection, as it was before your move? (other than the location of course)

Is the modem on the first cable split? If not, this might be causing part of this problem. What were you on before you moved? Did you tweak the connection that you had previously on that same computer? If so, I would re-tweak. How are you hooked up to the modem? Try to hook the modem right up to your computer if you are currently using a router, or change from USB to ethernet, if possible.

I suppose so, you could ask, but would I answer?... lol, it's a school. I am a sysadmin, and I use it to work on computers remotely. Every ghost image that we roll out has VNC installed... Why, is there a problem with that? I will be tweaking/testing after school ends.

Ok, either some congestion on our pipe (from other students) has let up, or your tweaks helped. Either way, it worked better this time, because it didn't cut down to 200 KB/s... I will be testing tonight when no one is at school, and on a computer I haven not tweaked at all yet. Before After: Let's see if testmy/VanBuren's tests run better now... Testmy :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 3419 Kbps about 3.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 417 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 61 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2.46 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=XY04JUCHJ VanBurnen :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 578 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 5184 KB) Download Speed is:: 71 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 10 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 14.42 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=50NUJI83T Not really much better, but that was expected, as I am still going through the same proxy for http. (the proxy is required to access the internet)

All right, I will try that when I get some free time again later today... Maybe I should try the DS3 tweaks instead? I know that the smallest pipe between me and the net is 100mbps, but the fastest that I have ever gotten was 3/3 MB/s. I also know that the connection must be full duplex.

I decided to tweak a computer at school... This is the download rate that I got before I did any tweaking... This is the ping rate that I was getting After tweaking, I was getting 200 KB/s... I used the 100 mbps full duplex tweak with a rwin of 7300. I am not discrediting VanBuren's tweak at all. I am just suggesting that those people that are stuck behing a software router/firewall as I am (windows server 2003 with ISA server) then these tweaks will probably not work for you. I tested with ftp, because that is the only protocol that is allowed to get to the internet without passing through the proxy. I knew for sure that I would not be able to tweak this system for faster http downloads, because I would have had to tweak the ISA server for that. Oh well, I guess I have to live with these pathetically slow 1.7 MB/s download rates with much higher to Internet 2 at school for now

Did we scare poor wittle NSKA away? No post in 16 hours...

LOL, read above, this is from a school. I am just using it as a testing point to find out if my server and ca3le's are slowly routed to that network.

NSKA, please go to the "New Topic" button in this forum. There I will answer your question. "I am a Direcway user as well"