karlo

My latest RSSI is ony 400-590 (after changing the antenna), do you think updating the software might improve the connection? I'm 0.86 miles away from the base station.

You are very luck because you have that kind of RSSI. Before, mine was 290-380, then when the tech came, they changed my Canopy because it was broken or something, then did a little of rotating but they told me that the Base Station is far away, i am about 0.86 miles away, so my my Official RSSI is 400-550+ but it does not reach 600+

what happened, how did you got that kind of speed?

Hmm.. weird. You tried it, really? Have you tried testing it or measuring the speed, probably 4-8 times? Post the test (4-8x) and let's see if you have a stable speed.

Hmm. Let me download it. By the way I downloaded/purchased some Windows XP Pro SP2 installers, some of them are incomplete and some of them, the installer verifies the cd, labeled "Windows XP Pro SP2", meaning, do you think the installer checks if the cd is authentic or not? I'm off to find SP3 installers (whole cd, not the update)... hmmm.. where to download those....

I'm just going to tell them that their customer support always tells me to turn off and back on the unit, that's why probably the log is cleared, and because of that one, It had been a hobby of mine to turn the unit off and on if I am pissed off.

wow, 20 steps? how long did it took you to complete those tests? and the technicians will arrive this afternoon. how can I tell them that I wanted a higher RSSI?

so, what limit was he/she was talking about?

how fast?

question, is it the official version or just a release candidate?

are you really sure? tried changing your IP to 10.1.1.2?

I think at the IP or Radio tab. Nope. It only makes your connection more stable than before.

I know that I am using the right settings on my IDM software. Options > Connections > (tried all of the DSL speeds and LAN speed) configurations, still, the same. Slow downloading speed! Wow, SMARTBro loves me, tom. their technical team is going to arrive. How can I tell them that I want more than 800 RSSI?

mine is set to the maximum, it's the patch for the tcpip file right

kindly delete that wrong image, and this post: http://www.testmy.net/t-22010.msg256318#msg256318

SMARTBro as of January 14, 2008 11:45pm click the picture link above to watch

SMARTBro as of January 14, 2008 11:45pm click the link above to watch

The big question: upon monitoring my RSSI, it's only 260-390, how can I tell the technician that I only got those readings? I mean, it wouldn't be nice for them to know that I can access my Canopy page, right? currently using cfosspeed, monitoring it's results...

UPDATE: I haven't followed SIRAComputer's or coolbuster's tweaks, the recent one, well once I applied them but nothing happened. But there's this instruction to measure and measure your connection etc... probably if you follow those additional instructions, your speed could possibly increase. ------------------------------ Around 7-8 pm last night (January 12, 2008), something happened into my connection. I remembered a few days ago, while accessing the net, I received a Page Loading Error, tried disabling my proxies and changing my DNS servers, still nothing happened. I called up SMARTBro, and they are delighted to tell me that there's a problem with the base station near me and they are very sorry for the inconvinience. The guy also told me that they are actually doing their best in order to restore the service as soon as possible. 4-8 hours. Fully restored. Also, I think with a different IP Address OR a different DNS (SMARTBro). Now let's go back to what happened yesterday (January 12, 2008 between 7-8pm while it's raining cats and dogs). Of course, the usual, accessing the net etc... downloading, checking Friendster(a must!) etc... Suddenly, unexpectedly, whatsoever, I receive that same message again that the website i'm visiting was not found. It's impossible to receive that message when I am using OpenDNS's Servers! Checked the status of their servers, 100% working! I even tried switching back to SMARTBro's DNS, still, no luck. Wow, this seems interesting. Hmmm.. i'm getting a little familiar with SMARTBro's Customer service. SMARTBroken or SMARTBroker's, wanna welcome me to the club?! Priviledges? I gave them my IP Address and My Physical Address and asked me to remove the Canopy from the electricity and asked me if the IP of my connection is 192.xxx actually after many days of researching, if you're IP is not 192.xxx something like 169.xx.xx it means that your connection is not working. TIP: Always remember that when you've got a new ISP, research how to tweak it, and research what will be the problem you'll experience after you decided to use it's service(s). Anyway, let's go back to the topic. The SMARTBro Technical Staff told me that there's been a problem with my connection. Probably on my antenna, probably it was moved etc... He also gave a wonderful example. If he's going to rate my antenna 1 out of 10, it's 4. Why not try "you are not receiving a good reception" or "something had moved your antenna, therefore you are not getting a good reception, that's why you have frequent disconnections or slow and sluggish speeds". So, after that one, I was convinced. At least they asked me for my contact number. They or he told me that someone will call me or send me a message regarding the scheduling of the fixing of my antenna. Since I read all of the negative reviews of SMARTBro from different sites, I then plan something. Because of being too much excited, I haven't slept since yesterday. Today (January 13, 2007-7 AM). THE PLAN: Rotate the antenna. Climb onto the roof. Is the word "climb", right? Of course I can't go there when the roof is soaking wet. And also when is dark! So I wasted my time watching Music and Lyrics that I downloaded the 1st week that SMARTBro was installed, having a very stable connection. As of right now, just finished checking the roof. Just realized I have this fear of being onto the roof, being paranoid because of the birds around me etc.. It's windy don't know why. My antenna is/was/were moving. Shaking. Not that shakie/shaky but at least I know it's moving. I saw it, just accessed the Canopy too last night! I'll tell you all about it later. So, where were we? Ah, the windy thing. Since it was moving, just wondering. How can I rotate it, the strings or I don't know what's the English of Alambres, those are the things whose holding my antenna. And guess what, my antenna is just something like stick or they used some glue, just to make my antenna stand. Weird. I can see the neighbor's or another person's SMARTBro antenna. Just wondering again, ah, why is my antenna and his or her's antenna is facing another direction? Hmm... let me call the Techncial Department of SMARTBro again later. THE Canopy STORY: Since I can't wait 'till the guys from SMARTBro arrive, I decided to do some more research on accessing the Canopy settings. Came up with a familiar site, a site that I know I already visited, but, didn't read the instructions carefully. I followed everything. I then can access my Canopy! Didn't have to climb onto the roof because my antenna was 15ft! Actually they charged me for additional 5ft, for 250 pesos. Hmm.. will they add another pole again? I mean why not stick the tall pole unto someone's house (wall taller than my house), since houses here are more of a literal interpretation of "kapit-bahay". You know what I mean, right?! After reading and following the instructions, yes, the 161 or 169 IP Address, the traditional way to access the Canopy settings, well it's blocked. Mine was the 10 series. UNLOCKING (from gpcamp): 1. Go to the Network Connection(s) or to the list of Network Connection(s). In Control Panel or START > Connect to > Show all ... 2. Right click the LAN Device where your Canopy is connected and select Properties. 3. Scroll up to the bottom and double-click or single-click TCP/IP. For single-click: then press Properties. 4. Select "Use the following IP Address". Enter the following: IP Address: 10.1.1.2 Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0 5. Click OK, then OK again. As you can see, you are connected. You are connected to your Canopy device, not the internet. Connected with Admin rights. 6. Run Command Prompt. To run it, press the Window key on your keyboard and letter R at the same time or Start > Run > Type: cmd.exe then press Enter. 7. Type: arp.exe -a then Press enter. If you received an error message, type the following: cd cd %windir%system32 arp.exe -a 8. Look for the IP Address that starts with the number 10, then copy it onto your browser, and press Enter or Go! 9. Behold, your Canopy page. To make things alot ah, cute, hahaha, login, using the user name root and password, empty or null. Meaning, nothing. 10. Always remember after doing something or changing a setting, reboot, then delete or clear the log or event log(s) at the Canopy page, then reboot again, the Canopy. SETTINGS TO BE CHANGED: Note: There are many different kinds of Canopy versions. Just find the nearest. QoS (Quality of Service). Uplink and Downlink, both must be equal to 1000Kbps. Recommended: DownLink: 500-700 (1000 minus 500 or 700). Uplink, the remaining. AP Eval, press Rescan AP a couple of times. Find the one with the highest RSSI. If possible, along with the lowest Jitter. If not, just find the highest RSSI. Just make sure the Jitter is not greater than 11. TIPS (according to cor): AP (Access Point) = signal reception. Jitter = interference. If at least or higher than 11, please reposition your antenna or find another AP. The lower the better. MultipointAvail, if equals to zero(0), your base station is experiencing a technical difficulty, or no signal at all. If one(1), base station is up and running. SectorUserCount = the number of users using or relying to the same AP. The lesser the faster. Continue pressing Rescan APIP until you have decided which base station you wanted to connect to. Copy or memorize or copy the Color Code value because you'll be using it later. TWEAKING: At your Canopy page. find the Color Code section, mine from Configuration > Radio. Then enter the Color Code value you memorized or copied earlier. About the Transmitter Output Power, I have no idea about it. But mine is set to the maximun, 23dBm. Then reboot. You'll see your Local Area Connection to be unplugged, plugged, unplugged and then plugged again. Click the link to continue or to go back unto your Canopy page/configuration settings. Then find the Logs, Event Log to be exact and press Clear Event Log, probably to avoid the Technical Team to see what you've done with your settings. TO ACCESS THE NET: Just set your IP Address to Automatic, inluding your DNS Servers or enter OpenDNS's servers: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. Press OK, and OK again. Behold, your renewed or rejuvenated connection! MY OWN TWEAKS: Just experienced an increase of speed, but I reverted back to the defaults because I am fully convinced that I need to move my antenna. Because the Canopy software can't tweak anything now. The problem is the hardware although sicne I only got a speed of ranging 58Kbps up to 128Kbps of speed before the tweak, now 256Kbps-305Kbps, which is very unstable, always flunctuating, thus, making my speed to 50Kbps-128Kbps. Again, on your Canopy page, find Spectrum Analyzer. Press Enable button a few times until you see sone green lines. By the way you'll see the legend on the top right of the Canopy page. You'll see different frequencies with different signal strength. Just reload the page, and you'll see them fluctuate. Check out the one with the highest signal, after a few seconds, it's gone, and the highest signal is transfered unto another frequency. Meaning, unstable and fluctuating SMARTBro connection. Now find a line or a green thing, which is stable. Does not often change. Then remember it's frequency. Next go to Alignment and enable RSSI Only Mode. Change the Radio Carrier Frequency to the frequency you remembered earlier. Press Enable a couple of times, then you'll see the real-time results on the bottom of the Canopy page. Reboot your Canopy, find a page with a Reboot button on it and press it. FOR ASSURANCE: Open your Canopy page again after rebooting and select AP Evaluation. Rescan AP, then again, find the highest RSII along with the lowest Jitter. Copy the Color Code, change your Color Code, then monitor your connection. If it does not improve your connection, just disable the RSSI Only Mode, Radio Carrier Frequency to NONE. Reboot your Canopy and then Rescan AP, again, copy the Color Code and change your current Color Code, just like the earlier steps. Again reboot your Canopy. Time finished writing this post: 7:28 pm Jan. 13, 2008 and 12:45 pm Jan. 14, 2008 All rights reserved. Copyright by karlo--and the other users and references. P.S > Clear the Logs of your Canopy! The antenna I was telling you about, pointed to another direction. My Antenna. My Antenna. My Antenna. to mods: i would like to edit my first post in this thread, probably change the date 2007 to 2008. thanks. it would be great if I can edit it. thanks., by the way thanks for welcoming me. My testmy.net tests The test above shows that adjusting your Canopy really have results! Look at my upload speed! Sacrificed my download speed! Works if you're going to make your computer a file server! My Latest Test Results, DOWNLOAD speed. DownLink: 900 UpLink: 100 My Latest Test Results, DOWNLOAD speed. DownLink: 900 UpLink: 100 ... as of right now next plan: change the transmitting output power to -5, apply some registry tweaks, including the usage of cablenut...

Hi guys. New here. Almost joined majority of the Pinoy forums, wherein everyone's posting about SMARTBro and improving it's connection. I requested my SMARTBro Connection last Friday (January 04, 2008) at SMART Wireless Center. The connection team arrived, Sunday (January 06, 2008). I always got a connection speed of between 200+ Kbps to 300+ Kbps but less than 390 Kbps. I am not contented. I don't know if my base station at my location: Marikina had upgraded it's speed. I applied SIRAComputer's speed tweak. Still confused, on the page where you can enter the download and upload speed, do I have to enter the results given to me by testmy.net? OR I should enter the kind of speed I wanted it to be, for example, 512Kbps or 1024 Kbps. Anyway, here's the results (including SiraComputer's tweaks): OR Coolbuster's tweaks: Applied it, using SMARTBro DNS. ] Applied it using OpenDNS's DNS. ] Applied it using SMARTBro DNS with SMARTBro Proxy. ] Applied it using OpenDNS's DNS with SMARTBro Proxy. ] Applied it using SMARTBro DNS and SMARTBro Proxy. ] And is there a way to restore my default connection settings (before the tweak)? What do you think? Help me decide. And why can't I receive a connection that is more than 400Kbps? How to access my canopy? I remembered seeing the SMARTBro Techs accessing the site http://169.254.1.1/ using my internet explorer browser according to it's history. Now, I can't access it. I think the SMARTBro technical team disabled it because probably they heard me talking about it. That I have an idea about what they are doing. What can I do? I want to tweak my connection. Please help me. SIRAComputer's Tweak edit...date...per member request