help with rogers connection speed

[KaRRoT]

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

Connection is:: 2181 Kbps about 2.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 266 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (server1)

Test Time:: Mon Feb 27 2006 13:19:40 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 39X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.85 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 72.27 % of your hosts average (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-VBW5OJZU8

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 813 Kbps about 0.8 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 99 kB/s

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

Test Time:: Mon Feb 27 2006 13:24:22 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 15X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 10.34 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 130.97 % faster than the average for host (rogers.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-B0RG9QPIK

I have the rogers extreme with 6.0 Mbps download and 800 Kbps upload. How can I go about at improving my download speed primarily? any more tests i should run on other sites? My system is currently operating on a fresh install of windows xp with a clean system of viruses and spyware. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[FallowEarth]

Welcome to the forum, KaRRoT.

First stop: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-2097

Please try all steps.  I imagine that we can boost your speeds up quite a bit.  Once you get to step 15 (Cablenut), the first tweak setting I'll get you to try is Cable & DSL 6000 768 from VanBuren's Cablenut Settings version 7.  Ask if you need clarification, and good luck!

[KaRRoT]

thanks for the response. i did what you advised but my speed did not really change (i loaded the tweak into cablenut and restarted). Here are my tests

on testmy.net my speed ranges from 2.2 (most of the time) up to about 3.6 (rare). Not even close to my advertised speed 

When using https://www.speedguide.net:8080/, i got

TCP properties for IP = **.**.**.** ()

Browser/OS = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; 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 = 020405b40103030401010402

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) = 824320

RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 4 bits (scale factor of

Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 51520

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

Other RWIN values 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: 32972.8 kbps (4121.6 KBytes/s) @ 200ms

Your TCP Window limits you to: 13189.12 kbps (1648.64 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) = 00000000 (0)

When using http://nitro.ucsc.edu/, I got

click START to begin

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

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 874.07Kb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 2.54Mb/s

Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem

Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link

Wen using Tracert and Ping program, I got

Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=44

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:

    Packets: Sent = 12, Received = 12, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

    Minimum = 53ms, Maximum = 63ms, Average = 55ms

Ping Complete.

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    7 ms    9 ms    6 ms  10.92.60.1

  2    7 ms    6 ms    7 ms  gw03.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.90.17]

  3    7 ms    7 ms    6 ms  gw01.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.93.9]

  4    6 ms    7 ms    6 ms  gw02.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.80.210]

  5    7 ms    8 ms    7 ms  gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.80.49]

  6    24 ms    34 ms    24 ms  igw01.vaash.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.80.190]

  7    25 ms    24 ms    23 ms  216.200.56.1.has.no.reverse [216.200.56.1]

  8    24 ms  111 ms    24 ms  so-4-0-0.mpr1.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.30.118]

  9    25 ms    24 ms    26 ms  so-4-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.29.133]

10    24 ms    25 ms    23 ms  so-1-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28.129]

11    52 ms    54 ms    54 ms  so-3-2-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.28.205]

12    53 ms    53 ms    53 ms  216.200.6.237.theplanet.com [216.200.6.237]

13    53 ms    53 ms    53 ms  vl31.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29]

14    54 ms    56 ms    56 ms  vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]

15    54 ms    53 ms    54 ms  gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69]

16    54 ms    54 ms    55 ms  85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]

Perhaps i can try something else?

[KaRRoT]

i just figured out i have to call rogers to actually switch to 6mb. agh! thanks for the help fallowearth! hopefully once they switch me my speed will improve even more

[FallowEarth]

Cool. Well post back so we can see how it goes, and try the cablenut file to see if it bumps your speed up a bit.