Need help on a poor DSL connection

Sheng · January 15, 2005

I'm using Windows XP SP2, my DSL speed advertised at 512/256..

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

Connection is:: 352 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)

Download Speed is:: 43 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Bottom Line:: 6 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 23.81 second(s)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=5CWX1G860

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

Connection is:: 207 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)

Upload Speed is:: 25 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Bottom Line:: 4 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 40.96 second(s)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=VJBSKAWRN

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.

2 53 ms 54 ms 54 ms 219.93.218.177

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 * * * Request timed out.

5 * * * Request timed out.

Request timed out all of it.. Why ?

Can help me out please ? Thanks in advance !

VanBuren · January 15, 2005

hey Sheng and welcome to the forum

run this http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

copy result URL adress and paste it here so we can see it

some ISP block ping and thats why it time out, unless you have some sirious packetloss

VanBuren

xs1 · January 15, 2005

I'm using Windows XP SP2,

Methinks thats your problem

kano51 · January 15, 2005

HI Sheng

Sorry bout ure dsl. It's nothin to do with xp or sp2 or anythin like that.

First, check that u havent got spyware or trojans runnin in the background - these affect speed when accessing the net.

Have you enough memory and did you overclock your bios settings lately? These can all mess your pc and dsl speeds up.

Check with your phone or cable line that you have no line noise. They can adjust your settings their end to boost your connection speed.

Equipment and lengths of cabling and wiring in your home can reduce quality and dsl speed as well as packet loss and distance from the exchange you are using (I live in Ireland by the way and we use adsl broadband now. I have a very good connection and download speed here. Tweaked it a bit too)

After all that try using cablenut to tweak your registry settings but make sure you back up your registry first.

Here's a useful info site i found: www.dslmechanic.com/

VanBuren · January 15, 2005

hey kano and welcome to the forum

yea very good tips !

But the last thing he want is to mix diffrent tweak programs, that can mess things up even more.....

Cablenut offer the most powerful tweaking, also you dont need to backup any register like other crap programs on the net

the only thing you need to do with cablenut is to click "delete cablenut tweaks" and click save to registry, then your windows Default values will be loaded.

Infact you can use cablenut to clean up what other program leaves behind

VanBuren

kano51 · January 15, 2005

Hi Van

yeah got all that. Know about cablenut cos i use it too. thanks for the input fella. keep in touch.

kano

Sheng · January 16, 2005

Hi there, thanks for fast reply !

This is the test results..

http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:25c4104?service=dsl&speed=512&os=winXP&via=winXPpppoe

Yea, .s1 there is nothing to do with SP2.. Before the SP2, the tracert also seems like that.. Hi kano51, my computer is spyware and virus free.. I running S&D, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaster and Microsoft AntiSpyware.. Hmm.. I scan my pc almost everyday.. *Cheers*

My pc working with p4 2.4Ghz, 384mb SDRAM and ya its enough for my pc background processing.. My cable is well wiring too..

Thanks for the help guys !