@Home Speed Patch kills download ability

jessjackson · Post by **jessjackson** » Mon May 28, 2001 12:59 am

Hi:

I have installed most of the tweaks on this board with good success. However, I last put on the @Home Speed Patch and got a great increase on the speed test -- from 708(down) to 2205. Web pages just jump on the screen.

BUT... Now I cannot get any file downloads to work. For example, trying to get Symantec's latest virus def update may load 100K or so and it just stops. I get from 0-100K on downloads and then nothing.

I removed the @Home Speed Patch and I can download just fine again on a number of test sites. But, I want to have my cake and eat it to -- am I missing something -- Is there a way to use the @Home Speed Patch and still be able to get downlods to work?

I am running a fresh reinstall of Win98SE and running cox@home in Hmapton Roads, Virginia.

Thanks in advance

EvilAjax · Post by **EvilAjax** » Mon May 28, 2001 1:32 am

Restore your registry to a date before you applied the @home speed patch. There is a warning about the file causing problems for that patch. Anyway, to restore your registry restart in MS-DOS mode. type scanreg /restore. Then pick a date before the patch. Reboot and let us know if it worked or not. Back up your registry before applying any changes!:2cool:

kismatic · Post by **kismatic** » Mon May 28, 2001 4:32 am

Well The @home patch I noticed changed the RWIN to 373360 thats it. I guess that is not an valid multiple of MSS so I found a good multiple of that is really uncanny how close it is to the @home speed patch

Try changing Your Rwin 372360

PLease not that I didnt uninstal the @home patchbefore I changed the Rwin To the New multiple, when I did this downloads worked fine and good here is my best test result so far.

Test file size: 500 KB
Download time: 0.88 seconds
Estimated line speed: 4545.5 Kbps
Estimated transfer rate: 568.2 KB/sec

Tell Me If It Works

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon May 28, 2001 8:20 am

Please give me your system specs sir for RWIN's to try, 372360 is not a multiple

jessjackson · Post by **jessjackson** » Mon May 28, 2001 9:50 am

Hi:

Thanks for the ideas. I have already registery to its original state, so I am back to square one. I have put on the sguide_tweak_98.zip and mtupatch98.zip patches but not the @home speed patch and am running OK as far as download capability.

I am running a Dell P-II, 400MHz with 128-MB ram and an 30-GB hard drive. My connection is cox@home in South Hampton Roads, Virginia. This is a "fresh" reinstall as I just rebuilt the Windows installation on this PC.

Thanks for the help.

Jess

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon May 28, 2001 10:05 am

Try RWIN of 348720, see how that works

kismatic · Post by **kismatic** » Mon May 28, 2001 12:51 pm

Lobo How did you get that number??????

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Mon May 28, 2001 3:22 pm

Originally posted by EvilAjax
Restore your registry to a date before you applied the @home speed patch. There is a warning about the file causing problems for that patch. Anyway, to restore your registry restart in MS-DOS mode. type scanreg /restore. Then pick a date before the patch. Reboot and let us know if it worked or not. Back up your registry before applying any changes!:2cool:

You should warn him that if he does go back, he will more than likely have to reinstall any programs that he's installed since that date.

jessjackson · Post by **jessjackson** » Mon May 28, 2001 3:23 pm

Thanks for the "heads up." I have not installed anything new, so that is a non-issue.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon May 28, 2001 3:39 pm

kismatic, strange math but it works right

lance-tek · Post by **lance-tek** » Mon May 28, 2001 4:26 pm

Don't try to understand lobo, he does things a little unorthodox but, somehow it usually works.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon May 28, 2001 4:39 pm

hehe, it's like registering in May with my number of posts, magic

lance-tek · Post by **lance-tek** » Mon May 28, 2001 4:45 pm

I never noticed that till just now. What happened? get messed up when they switched the server so they jsut threw some crap in there or what?

kismatic · Post by **kismatic** » Mon May 28, 2001 5:05 pm

Originally posted by Lobo
kismatic, strange math but it works right

Waht works??