bluize Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 First off, this is a great forum, I have learned a lot here, I recommend this place to everyone I know. Here is my problem. I live in a remote area that isn't serviced by cable or dsl. I am connected to the net via an FM router. Goes from my PC and transmits via FM to a main radio tower and then from there to my ISP's system and then out via a T1 line to AT&T. My connection speeds are supposed to be 512/512 (they actually have the pipe open bigger for me so I have bandwidth higher than the 512/512). I have cablenut and have flushed my cache, run SpyBot, run Ad-Aware, run BugDoctor and am using AV for anti-virus. All tests and checks are clean, nothing found. Below are my speeds. Can someone help me with a good cablenut setting that will push me up to near where I should be. Thanks in advance for all help and advice. Y'all are the greatest ... Thanks, Bluize :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 264 Kbps about 0.26 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Download Speed is:: 32 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/06/17 - 6:31am Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 32 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 12 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 56.65 % of your hosts average (204.250) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-938VSNAJF User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] Upload Stats Upload Connection is:: 39 Kbps about 0.04 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Upload Speed is:: 5 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/06/17 - 6:39am Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 204.8 sec Tested from a 97 kB file and took 20.37024 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 100 % of your hosts average (204.250) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-3XJYO6G2C User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] Also, here are my speeds via SpeakEasy to a server in Dallas, TX (I live 150 miles from Dallas) Last Result: Download Speed: 144 kbps (18 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 27 kbps (3.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Also here is the number that I get from a XPeedoMeter speed test on their site. It measures the speed from my house to their boxes. The number is 179 kbit/s. For the ones that want to test them yourself, you can go to their website at www.etwisp.net and click on the Speed Test button in the upper right hand part of the screen. Hope y'all can help and again, thanks in advance and great work everyone. Bluize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 hm. post a tracert to see what the latency on the system is like and also run the tests with a bigger file size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluize Posted June 17, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 Thank you for your quick reply. Here are the test results from different things for you. The first is a ping test from my PC to their system. Also, I notice a variability with performance, at times it is faster and other times it is slow. As you can see from my first test results and the ones I just ran for this reply. Ping statistics for [snip] -t Packets: Sent = 19, Received = 19, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 219ms, Average = 65ms Here is the tracert from my PC to www.testmy.net: Tracing route to www.testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 10.1.4.161 2 52 ms 23 ms 15 ms 192.168.54.1 3 57 ms 47 ms 31 ms 12.172.204.1 4 40 ms 39 ms 31 ms 12.119.121.41 5 40 ms 31 ms 72 ms GBr1-a90s12.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.17.14] 6 105 ms 200 ms 128 ms tbr2-p013701.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.12.89] 7 49 ms 39 ms 31 ms ar8-p3110.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.165] 8 64 ms 39 ms 47 ms 12.119.136.14 9 72 ms 55 ms 80 ms vl32.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.62] 10 40 ms 31 ms 23 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 11 41 ms 47 ms 39 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 12 48 ms 31 ms 39 ms www.testmy.net [67.18.179.85] Here is the test results with a bigger file size: ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 340 Kbps about 0.34 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 42 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/06/17 - 8:10am Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 24.38 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 72.126 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 77.1 % of your hosts average (204.250) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PO5NLKIMR User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) ::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..:::::::::: Upload Connection is:: 71 Kbps about 0.07 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 9 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/06/17 - 8:18am Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 113.78 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 347.02656 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 29.09 % faster than the average for host (204.250) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-F8YKD1MQN User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Thanks, Bluize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 this looks like a service call case. because if you are supposed to be getting 512 up and down, the down might be tweakable but the upstream is so bad that something is amiss there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluize Posted June 17, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 Thanks for your help. What would be cablenut settings be if I get the upload, etc. fixed? Any help would be great. Again, thank you for your help ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 bluize are you using a wireless router besides the necessary FM router, if so would you hook directly to your FM router and test again? Also how close is your FM router to other electrical devices in the room? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 Thanks for your help. What would be cablenut settings be if I get the upload, etc. fixed? Any help would be great. Again, thank you for your help ... use this cablenut file, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 17, 2006 CID Share Posted June 17, 2006 and since tommie caught the possible wireless i am not going to be caught with my opants down (especially not by waterrtbh) and ask when the last time you reset all your network equipment was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluize Posted June 22, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 22, 2006 Sorry it has taken so long to acknowledge everyone's suggestions, have been out of town. I will try and answer everyone's questions with this post. I am not using a wireless router, just have the FM router directly connected to PC. As far as how close to other electrical devices in the room, it is about 4 1/2 feet from the PC and UPS. I usually reset my connections at least once a day. Thanks for the cablenut settings, will give them a try. As a side note, I did send a message to Tech Support and got the following response regarding my performance: Pat has the antenna's adjusted, but has noticed the change in both sides of networks, he called technical support, and they said that they have received many calls from other companies with the same problem, of Internet slowness problems occuring more during the day. The guy has told him that all these kids are getting out of school, having nothing to do, and just staying online all day, and downloading music, videos, whatever they want. Thus, it is causing more strain on the BSR (Base Station Radio), since it handles each modem individually. (In a period of NANOseconds.) I thought that was pretty cool, but the fact is, that so many people are using it at once now, and using higher bitrates, that it is NOT cool. He has tested this theory by cutting off half the network, and seeing if everyone elses response times improved, and they did. He is in the process with a plan to have more radios installed to break up the network in more sections. (Very expensive may I add) However, it sounds like your antenna DOES need to be adjusted by the way. Hopefully with the antenna adjustment and some more equiptment, my speeds will come back up to where they have been. I want to thank everyone once again for your help and KUDOS to this place!!! Bluize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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