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I am having problems with my speed.  I have cox cable advertised at 4.0.  When I do speed test some days I will be up to 5.1 but on others I will be down to .8.  What is the deal???  I always keep up with ad aware and virus scans.  Plus I have already downloaded the cablenut program (think that is why I get 5.1 sometimes).  Any help would be great. 

P.S.  could it be my modem?  It is old  Surfboard sb3100

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  • 3 weeks later...

Could be that your RWIN setting has been set too precised for a specfic latency value.

Example using the RWIN formula

RWIN = bandwidth x latency divided by 8 (bit) = ________ KBytes

Say you bandwidth is 4000 Kbps and you design your ccs file for a 100 ms latency

RWIN = 4000 x 100 / 8 = 50000

Everything is all balanced. You get your throughput of 4000 Mbps. If latency falls to 80 ms, your throughput goes up to 5 Mbps.

What happens to your throughput when latency to a particular site is 300 ms?

Bandwidth = RWIN x 8 divided by latency

Bandwidth = 50000 x 8 / 300 = 1333 Kbps. (compared it to your original bandwidth 4000 Kbps)

Now your download speed falls by two-third.

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