Ukonline 2mb connection

[Nitro4WD]

Hey all!

Changed my ISP to Ukonline a while ago, and all was fine for a while. It's a 2000/256 connection. However, after a major issue my motherboard had with my new RAM (a Corsair 512MB PC3200 chip) and a bad XP crash I had to re-install from a formatted HDD. Now everything is back up and running I'm having trouble...

SpeedGuide.net TCP/IP Analyzer

TCP properties for IP = ()

Browser/OS = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Notes: Read the Analyzer FAQ if the above is not your IP address.

TCP options string = 020405b401010402

MTU = 1500

MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460

Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which equals MSS.

Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 63888

RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits

Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 63888

For optimum performance, consider changing RWIN to a multiple of MSS.

Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:

513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of

256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)

128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)

64240 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your TCP Window limits you to: 2555.52 Kbps (319.44 KBytes/s) @ 200ms

Your TCP Window limits you to: 1022.208 Kbps (127.776 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 56 hops

TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 11110000 (240)

Precedence (priority) = 111 (Network Control)

Delay = 1 (low delay)

Throughput = 0 (normal throughput)

Reliability = 0 (normal reliability)

Cost = 0 (normal cost)

Check bit = 0 (correct, 8th checking bit must be zero)

DiffServ (RFC 2474) = No valid DiffServ equivalent. See the TCP Optimizer documentation, or RFCs 2474, 2475, 2597, 2598, 2873.

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 287.71kB/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 558.14kB/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

Information: The receive buffer should be 270.0 Kbytes to maximize throughput

WEB100 Kernel Variables:

Client: localhost/127.0.0.1

AckPktsIn: 257

AckPktsOut: 0

BytesRetrans: 0

CongAvoid: 0

CongestionOverCount: 0

CongestionSignals: 0

CountRTT: 257

CurCwnd: 64240

CurMSS: 1460

CurRTO: 1080

CurRwinRcvd: 63888

CurRwinSent: 16304

CurSsthresh: 2147483647

DSACKDups: 0

DataBytesIn: 0

DataBytesOut: 788400

DataPktsIn: 0

DataPktsOut: 540

DupAcksIn: 0

ECNEnabled: 0

FastRetran: 0

MaxCwnd: 64240

MaxMSS: 1460

MaxRTO: 1470

MaxRTT: 1100

MaxRwinRcvd: 63888

MaxRwinSent: 16304

MaxSsthresh: 0

MinMSS: 1460

MinRTO: 630

MinRTT: 220

MinRwinRcvd: 63888

MinRwinSent: 16304

NagleEnabled: 1

OtherReductions: 0

PktsIn: 257

PktsOut: 540

PktsRetrans: 0

X_Rcvbuf: 103424

RcvWinScale: 2147483647

SACKEnabled: 3

SACKsRcvd: 0

SendStall: 0

SlowStart: 42

SampleRTT: 830

SmoothedRTT: 810

X_Sndbuf: 103424

SndWinScale: 2147483647

SndLimTimeRwin: 8030935

SndLimTimeCwnd: 2356025

SndLimTimeSender: 2601

SndLimTransRwin: 1

SndLimTransCwnd: 1

SndLimTransSender: 1

SndLimBytesRwin: 611740

SndLimBytesCwnd: 176660

SndLimBytesSender: 0

SubsequentTimeouts: 0

SumRTT: 189480

Timeouts: 0

TimestampsEnabled: 0

WinScaleRcvd: 2147483647

WinScaleSent: 2147483647

DupAcksOut: 0

StartTimeUsec: 393197

Duration: 10392955

c2sData: 2

c2sAck: 2

s2cData: 9

s2cAck: 2

half_duplex: 0

link: 100

congestion: 0

bad_cable: 0

mismatch: 0

spd: 0.00

bw: 15.11

loss: 0.000001000

avgrtt: 737.28

waitsec: 0.00

timesec: 10.00

order: 0.0000

rwintime: 0.7730

sendtime: 0.0003

cwndtime: 0.2268

rwin: 0.4874

swin: 0.7891

cwin: 0.4901

rttsec: 0.737276

Sndbuf: 103424

aspd: 2.74283

Checking for mismatch on uplink

(speed > 50 [0>50], (xmitspeed < 5) [0.28<5]

(rwintime > .9) [0.77>.9], (loss < .01) [1.0E<.01]

Checking for excessive errors condition

(loss/sec > .15) [1.0E>.15], (cwndtime > .6) [0.22>.6],

(loss < .01) [1.0E<.01], (MaxSsthresh > 0) [0>0]

Checking for 10 Mbps link

(speed < 9.5) [0<9.5], (speed > 3.0) [0>3.0]

(xmitspeed < 9.5) [0.28<9.5] (loss < .01) [1.0E<.01], (mylink > 0) [3.0>0]

Checking for Wireless link

(sendtime = 0) [3.0E=0], (speed < 5) [0<5]

(Estimate > 50 [15.11>50], (Rwintime > 90) [0.77>.90]

(RwinTrans/CwndTrans = 1) [1/1=1], (mylink > 0) [3.0>0]

Checking for DSL/Cable Modem link

(speed < 2) [0<2], (SndLimTransSender = 0) [1=0]

(SendTime = 0) [3.0E-4=0], (mylink > 0) [3.0>0]

Checking for half-duplex condition

(rwintime > .95) [0.77>.95], (RwinTrans/sec > 30) [0.1>30],

(SenderTrans/sec > 30) [0.1>30], OR (mylink <= 10) [3.0<=10]

Checking for congestion

(cwndtime > .02) [0.22>.02], (mismatch = 0) [0=0]

(MaxSsthresh > 0) [0>0]

estimate = 15.11 based on packet size = 11Kbits, RTT = 737.28msec, and loss = 1.0E-6

The theoretical network limit is 15.11 Mbps

The NDT server has a 101.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 1.07 Mbps

Your PC/Workstation has a 62.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 0.66 Mbps

The network based flow control limits the throughput to 0.66 Mbps

Client Data reports link is 'T1', Client Acks report link is 'T1'

Server Data reports link is '10 Gig', Server Acks report link is 'T1'

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

Connection is:: 744 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)

Download Speed is:: 91 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server2)

Test Time:: Mon Feb 06 2006 20:58:17 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB download in 11.25 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 31.71 % of your hosts average (co.uk)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-UXG495H86

Yes, I'm connected up via USB, but I've always run a steady stable connection, so that shouldn't be a problem. I've tried using VanBuren's new Cablenut settings, got a couple of extra kB/s, but nothing of note (last time I used a VanBuren setting my speed increased over 20%!). I'm using an up to date XP Proffesional, and the system is a Compaq Presario 2.66GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM (it was a GB until the crash...), 400GB drive space spread over 1 40GB, 1 60 GB and a 1 300GB HDD.

Thanks in advance for any help offered!

Edited by swimmer.. remove IP address

[TimPawlak]

Post a Tracert to testmy.net and we'll see what we can do...

Thanks, Tim

[Nitro4WD]

Microsoft® Windows DOS

©Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

Sorry, forgot that!

C:DOCUME~1NITRO>tracert testmy.net

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    42 ms    46 ms    46 ms  easynet1-hg3.ilford.broadband.bt.net [217.32.63.

202]

  2    46 ms    46 ms    30 ms  217.32.63.162

  3    46 ms    46 ms    46 ms  217.32.63.238

  4    46 ms    46 ms    46 ms  ge0-3-0-0.br0.wslon.uk.easynet.net [212.134.10.1

3]

  5    46 ms    62 ms    62 ms  ge0-0-0-0.br0.bllon.uk.easynet.net [195.172.211.

209]

  6    46 ms    62 ms    62 ms  ge0-0-0-0.gr0.bllon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.204.

1]

  7    46 ms    62 ms    62 ms  ge0-1-0-0.gr0.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.205.

14]

  8    75 ms    62 ms    77 ms  ge0-0-0-0.gr1.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.198.

13]

  9  124 ms  124 ms  124 ms  so0-0-0-0.gr1.hsnyc.us.easynet.net [207.162.205.

138]

10  124 ms  124 ms  124 ms  ge-8-0-297.core1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.78.160.3

7]

11  140 ms  124 ms  124 ms  ae-1-51.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.1]

12  156 ms  156 ms  155 ms  as-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.0.137]

13  156 ms  155 ms  171 ms  ae-23-52.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.47]

14  156 ms  155 ms  171 ms  4.78.221.146

15  156 ms  155 ms  155 ms  vl32.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.62]

16  156 ms  155 ms  155 ms  vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]

17  140 ms  155 ms  155 ms  gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8

5]

18  140 ms  155 ms  155 ms  85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85

]

Trace complete.

C:DOCUME~1NITRO>

Cheers!

[TimPawlak]

I think its just the overseas that is making  your connection "slow" or maybe i'm wrong.. Try using cablenut...with the settings below..restart and try again

[trogers]

Hi,

Do you happened to be located in Cambridge?

[trogers]

Test your speed again at any site in this link, but located in the UK:

http://www.testmyspeed.com/speedtests/international.htm

[trogers]

One of the core router in the UK is down. That may be the reason why latency to the US is very high:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/81.htm

[Nitro4WD]

Hey all!

Appreciate all the help I'm getting, but I still have a problem...I applied the 2000/256 Cablenut settings, and I've run some speed tests from that link:

http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed3/ShowMeasurement.php?ID=47,578,231

Speed Test (Results)

Loaded 2,031K bytes in 26.672 seconds.

Your throughput is 624 Kbps.

BarChart Expected Results

Despite this my results from http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ are more promising...

OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1

Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.5.0_06

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 291.27Kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 1.74Mb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

------  Web100 Detailed Analysis  ------

Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.

Link set to Full Duplex mode

No network congestion discovered.

Good network cable(s) found

Normal duplex operation found.

Web100 reports the Round trip time = 262.97 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and

No packet loss was observed.

This connection is receiver limited 85.21% of the time.

This connection is network limited 14.76% of the time.

Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:

RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON

RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON

RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF

RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF

RFC 1323 Window Scaling: OFF

Packet size is preserved End-to-End

Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

Client IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

Thanks!

[trogers]

Try this ccs file.

[Nitro4WD]

Sorry Trogers, but that file comes up with all the fields blank?

[trogers]

Try again.

[Nitro4WD]

Sorry man, it's still blank; opening from location and saving to disk the same...Strangely though, the VanBuren one I had previously used is doing the same thing, so I think it's my end. I've restarted a few times to no avail...this is weird...

[trogers]

Then you will have to enter the values manually from top to bottom and left to right order:

64240

64240

1

100

240

640

819200

64000

150400

0

12800

32

4096

1

1

0

64240

8000

32768

5000000

1

1

0

1

2

100

80

1460

1460

30

0

64240

20

10

64

0

6

240

[Nitro4WD]

Sorry, haven't been on due to work...

Thanks for going to all this effort! I applied those settings and have come up with this:

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 288.62Kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 560.71kb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

Information: The receive buffer should be 288.99 Kbytes to maximize throughput

Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.5.0_06

------  Web100 Detailed Analysis  ------

Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.

Link set to Full Duplex mode

No network congestion discovered.

Good network cable(s) found

Normal duplex operation found.

Web100 reports the Round trip time = 789.14 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and

No packet loss was observed.

This connection is receiver limited 77.71% of the time.

  Increasing the the client's receive buffer (62.0 KB) will improve performance

This connection is network limited 22.25% of the time.

Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:

RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON

RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON

RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF

RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF

RFC 1323 Window Scaling: OFF

Packet size is preserved End-to-End

Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

Client IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

I'm having trouble with the testmy.net speed tester, it keeps jamming on the "Querying / Sending Data to Database" message...

Here's a tracert too;

Microsoft® Windows DOS

©Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:DOCUME~1NITRO>tracert testmy.net

Tracing route to testmy.net

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    32 ms  143 ms    65 ms  easynet1-hg2.ilford.broadband.bt.net [217.32.63.

201]

  2  284 ms  126 ms  315 ms  217.32.63.129

  3    64 ms    65 ms    33 ms  217.32.63.234

  4    96 ms    63 ms    63 ms  ge0-3-0-0.br0.wslon.uk.easynet.net [212.134.10.1

3]

  5    32 ms    49 ms    49 ms  ge0-0-0-0.br0.bllon.uk.easynet.net [195.172.211.

209]

  6  110 ms  125 ms  189 ms  ge0-0-0-0.gr0.bllon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.204.

1]

  7  125 ms    63 ms  110 ms  ge0-1-0-0.gr0.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.205.

14]

  8    47 ms    48 ms    48 ms  ge0-0-0-0.gr1.thlon.uk.easynet.net [207.162.198.

13]

  9  375 ms  313 ms  266 ms  so0-0-0-0.gr1.hsnyc.us.easynet.net [207.162.205.

138]

10  312 ms  219 ms  281 ms  ge-8-0-297.core1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.78.160.3

7]

11  452 ms  389 ms  421 ms  ae-1-51.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.1]

12  156 ms  140 ms  140 ms  ae-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.1.109]

13  185 ms  232 ms  233 ms  ae-13-55.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.143]

14  155 ms  155 ms  139 ms  4.78.221.146

15  155 ms  202 ms  169 ms  vl32.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.62]

16  264 ms  154 ms  154 ms  vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]

17  139 ms  139 ms  139 ms  gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8

5]

18  325 ms  412 ms  354 ms  85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85

]

Trace complete.

I got this from a uk testing site (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp) before the tester jammed...

Analysing your connection...

Testing downstream speed...

Downloaded 1572864 bytes in 17035ms (721 kbps)

Testing upstream speed...

Uploaded 153333 bytes in 4925ms (243 kbps)

Firefox is struggling to run any more than two tabs (usually regularly runs two or three browsers full of 'em without problems), and connections to anything bandwidth intensive are very slow... I've run a host of spyware, adware and antivirus progs (adaware, spybot, microsoft antispy, avg etc), and have Kerio Firewall and Ewido and Counterspy live malware guards on all the time.

Any further help will be really appreciated, as i'm going crazy!

[|3v|lon3|]

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 291.27kB/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 1.74Mb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

thats good for overseas

[Nitro4WD]

Strange thing is it only happened that one time, otherwise it's been consistantly between 500-750Mb/s download...

[trogers]

Go to this link and download the TCP Optimizer:

https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

Open the TCP Optimizer and do the following:

General Settings tab:

Custom settings - check

Modify All Network Adapters - check

network adapter selection - your NIC

MTU 1500

TTL - 64

TCP Receive Window -128480

MTU Discovery - Yes

Black Hole Detect - No

Selective Acks - Yes

Max Duplicate ACKs - 2

TCP 1323 Options:

Windows Scaling - check

Timestamps - uncheck

Advanced Settings tab:

Max Connections per Server - 10

Max Connections per 1.0 Server - 20

LocalPriority - 5

Host Priority - 6

DNSPriority - 7

NetbtPriority - 8

Lan Browsing speedup - optimized

QoS: NonBestEffortLimit - 0

ToS: DisableUserTOSSetting - 0

ToS: DefaultTOSValue - 240

MaxNegativeCacheTtl - 0

NetFailureCacheTime - 0

NegativeSOACache Time - 0

LAN Request Buffer Size - 32768

Then select "Apply Changes" and reboot to take effect

[Nitro4WD]

Hey,

Did all of the above, got this:

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 289.04Kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 551.54kb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

Information: The receive buffer should be 291.95 Kbytes to maximize throughput

Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.5.0_06

------  Web100 Detailed Analysis  ------

Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.

Link set to Full Duplex mode

No network congestion discovered.

Good network cable(s) found

Normal duplex operation found.

Web100 reports the Round trip time = 797.23 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and

No packet loss was observed.

This connection is receiver limited 73.72% of the time.

  Increasing the the client's receive buffer (62.0 KB) will improve performance

This connection is network limited 26.24% of the time.

Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:

RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON

RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON

RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF

RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF

RFC 1323 Window Scaling: OFF

Packet size is preserved End-to-End

Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

Client IP addresses are preserved End-to-End

I'm calling the ISP now, maybe they've got a duff server or something...Will post soon!

[Nitro4WD]

Just got off the phone with Ukonline, they got me to run the line providers test (British Telecom) which came up with the same (slow) results. Despite me paying for a half hour phone call something has at least been looked at, but it's now in BT's hands as it's their hardware and not UKonline's.

If anyone in the UK is using a Broadband connection that runs through a BT line, these login details will get you to their line speed tester if it's any use:

Username: speedtest@speedtest_domain

Password: dsl

URL: http://speedtester.bt.com

If however anyone still has suggestions for my connection (as it may not be BT's fault) they will be appreciated!

Cheers Trogers!

[trogers]

Your Round trip time = 797.23 msec. Usually RTT < 300 ms from computers of overseas users.

High round trip time usually points to poor line quality or electromagnetic interference on your signal cables or modem/router. Make sure modem and router are place a few feet apart. Check to see ensure other electrical devices are not placed near to them (eg. subwoofer, speakers, cordless phone, fax...etc). If using wireless, interference in signal transmission to router can be a possibility.

[Nitro4WD]

Thanks for the advice! However, Everything in that department is ok, all is routed as well isolated as it can be. Plus it's exactly as it was when I was running a true 2Mb/s originally.