ufjoe21 Posted October 7, 2005 CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hey everybody, I just received an email from Cox yesterday saying my service was upgraded from 5Mbps/<1Mbps to 9Mbps/1Mbps. after I got the email I first I tried Van Buren's OOL 10,000/1000 .ccs file because it seemed like the closest match, but I seemed to be getting less than 5Mbps download... usually overall congestion affects my connection, but lately I had tweaked my connection to such a point that when I'd use testmy.net to test my download speed during the wee morning hours I'd achieve nearly 5Mbps download.....but during the day it would sometimes drop below 1Mbps So, I made my own .ccs file and I'm trying to come up with the best settings for my connection.....below is a picture of the settings I currently have on CableNut........anything look way off? also, in my network card's properties, where I can set the duplex option there's another option for "optimal performance" and I enabled it, but not sure if it will really help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted October 7, 2005 CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 Welcome to the site, ufjoe21 Did you reboot the modem after you got the e-mail. Sometimes you have to reboot to recieve the new config file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 7, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 reboot a couple times since, did a power cycle too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinOhioRR Posted October 7, 2005 CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 you power cyled AND rebooted? lol.......neways...... the effective dates sometimes arent exactly as they say, give ti a couple of days, if it doesnt fix it....call em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 7, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 you power cyled AND rebooted? lol.......neways...... the effective dates sometimes arent exactly as they say, give ti a couple of days, if it doesnt fix it....call em I should've said I rebooted, and when I didn't see anything better I then tried power cycling something weird too......I used to have the NIC set to 100Mbps half duplex and when I tested at http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ I never got duplex mismatch settings.... now all of a sudden I get mismatch settings sometimes on half duplex and sometimes on full duplex.....so just out of curiousity I played with the 10 or 100 and half or full duplex settings for a while and now it "seems" like I'm getting better performance from full duplex but my results aren't consisent......so I'm confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinOhioRR Posted October 7, 2005 CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 Let it be set at Autodetect, it really doesnt matter if you run at 10 or 100 your connection is only 9.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbaker397 Posted October 7, 2005 CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 true but it depends if your running a router or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 7, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 7, 2005 Let it be set at Autodetect, it really doesnt matter if you run at 10 or 100 your connection is only 9.... mmmm I think I'll give that a try....I thought using the auto setting was a bad idea true but it depends if your running a router or not. no router here hey, how do my cablenut settings look? in the early hours of the morning I at one point got as high as 7.5Mbps....but it seemed more consisently to bounce between 2--6Mbps in the afternoon it was more like ~3Mbps as of now it's 1Mbps .....isn't this a sign of congestion which I can't do much about or my area being oversold? on the cablenut settings you'll notice I upped the memory settings cuz I figured it might help a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 8, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 8, 2005 I played with RWIN a little more.... I'm on the east coast so I pinged a west coast college website ping -t www.ucla.edu -l 1472 let it run for 2 or 3 minutes, and got an average of ~100ms so 100 x 1.5 = 150 150 x 9000 = 1350000 1350000/8 = 168750 168750/1460 = 115.6 ~ 116 116 x 1460 = 169360 <<<so this is my RWIN so in CableNut I changed GlobalMaxTCPWindowSize, TCPWindowSize, MaxFastTransmit to 169360 sound about right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 8, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 8, 2005 VanBuren....any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted October 8, 2005 CID Share Posted October 8, 2005 VanBuren....any advice? follow all these steps http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-2097.0 VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 8, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 8, 2005 Van Buren... 1. Windows XP Professional, SP2 2. Cox Communications, 9Mbps down and 1Mbps up 3. http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:423f7d?service=cable&speed=9000&os=winXP&via=normal 4. https://testmy.net and http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ give download speeds anywhere from less than 1Mbps to 2,3Mbps download, but it's 8PM here.....if I test at 3-6AM in the morning I almost always get well above 5Mpbs and max out at 7 or 8Mbps download 5. already did this 6. Using Firefox 7. connected via NIC 8. tried this several times 9. have spware and adware removal programs 10. no zonealarm 11. none of those firewalls 12. no viruses 13. windows up to date 14. have a similar cleaner program 15. I have the newest Cablenut but I've been making my own custom .ccs file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REV0LUTI0NIZED Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hey ufjoe21, try this custome setting I did. Hope it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 ^ some of those values look kinda weird to me.... but I'll give it a try, it's been less than 2Mbps on testmy.net here and it's almost 10PM are these your settings or did you make this for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REV0LUTI0NIZED Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 ^ some of those values look kinda weird to me.... but I'll give it a try, it's been less than 2Mbps on testmy.net here and it's almost 10PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 seems to be even slower...............I'll try again at like 3,4am and see how it does then... so if I acheive the 9Mbps and 3 in the morning, then that proves that I've tweaked it all I can and it can get no better..........but then during the day it might drop to less than 1Mbps........<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<so isn't that a clear sign of my area being way to congested or oversold? (so there's nothing I can do about it) doesn't that make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REV0LUTI0NIZED Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 seems to be even slower...............I'll try again at like 3,4am and see how it does then... so if I acheive the 9Mbps and 3 in the morning, then that proves that I've tweaked it all I can and it can get no better..........but then during the day it might drop to less than 1Mbps........<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<so isn't that a clear sign of my area being way to congested or oversold? (so there's nothing I can do about it) doesn't that make sense? How's your upload speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REV0LUTI0NIZED Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Change ; InitialLargeBufferCount - 200 InitialMediumBufferCount - 480 InitialSmallBufferCount - 640 Let's see if that makes a difference. Well here are my speed result from my 9Mbps/1Mbps package from Cox. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 9389 Kbps about 9.4 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1146 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Thu Oct 6 07:18:18 MST 2005 Bottom Line:: 168X faster than 56K 1MB download in 0.89 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 155.62 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EOP8YZIFB :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1046 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 128 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Tue Oct 04 2005 09:20:58 GMT-0600 (Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 19X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 8 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 100.38 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-GBMKRNYZC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Change ; InitialLargeBufferCount - 200 InitialMediumBufferCount - 480 InitialSmallBufferCount - 640 Let's see if that makes a difference. Well here are my speed result from my 9Mbps/1Mbps package from Cox. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 9389 Kbps about 9.4 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1146 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Thu Oct 6 07:18:18 MST 2005 Bottom Line:: 168X faster than 56K 1MB download in 0.89 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 155.62 % faster than the average for host (Cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EOP8YZIFB :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1046 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 128 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Tue Oct 04 2005 09:20:58 GMT-0600 (Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 19X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 8 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 100.38 % faster than the average for host (Cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-GBMKRNYZC dude, why would lowering the memory settings make it go faster?....if anything it would go slower! my upload is fairly decent during the day and I reach close to 1Mbps at night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Bahh. When you powercycle do it for more tahn 5 minutes. Always does the trick here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Bahh. When you powercycle do it for more tahn 5 minutes. Always does the trick here. I'll try that right now...........are you saying to try it after every tweak or just when I get bad performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn0 Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Uhh, look at his speeds. REVOUTIONIZED is getting all of his 9/1 speeds, and then some. Maybe consider his advice and at least try it, you may be surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 When you get bad performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufjoe21 Posted October 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Uhh, look at his speeds. REVOUTIONIZED is getting all of his 9/1 speeds, and then some. Maybe consider his advice and at least try it, you may be surprised. ok I'll change the memory settings per his suggestion....but like I said I already tried his tweak and didn't think those memory settings would have that big of an effect but I'll give it a try and report back restarting now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted October 9, 2005 CID Share Posted October 9, 2005 Did you powercycle for more than 5 minutes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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