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illegal.....smilegal....it doesn't matter. ilegal topics are discussed everywhere on the web, newsgroups, etc. personally, i feel why not here? it's not illegal to discuss illegal topics! sotra like posession is 90% of the law deal. it's only illegal if you do it. where is our freedom of speech ...

pipeline is a farse. had it and got rid of it for dsl. dsl is 5 times faster than charter ever dreamed of being. i was their first customer localy, and when i returned the modem, they asked why i was leaving. told them i was going with dsl. they stated they were faster, i exlained that i was already ...

the bosses, as most of us already know, we "need" them. i was here before they exsisted, and i for one perfered it that way. we were able to discuss the "real" reasons many of us have cable and dsl.

tweaks everywhere, navas site, speedguide, dannjr/cablenut, which one for an adsl PPPoA connection in win 98se? and will i really see an improvement of my current 85% throughput?

running win98se, with a PPPoA connection, 1.5 down and 256 up. all tweaks i see, (dannjr/cablenut combo, as well as speedguides)are for PPPoE connections. my understanding is that due to "throughput" i should only see 85% of my connection speed. at present i am seeing exactly that. when i had cable ...

ok dannjr, whats the difference between using the combo of yours and cablenut's, or the speedguide adsl tweak? i am running w98se, have a PPPoA connection at 1.5mb down and 256kb up. speedguides does not mention the use with PPPoA. also, it was my (mis)understanding that due to overhead, i should ...

yes capped at 256. went to site tried 1000, buffered twice. 750 was no problem. don't quite understand, when i go to sites and download large files like from 3dfxgamers.com, i get download speeds of 1240.

just installed new driver for adsl modem. usually test such things at happypuppy.com, but i seem to be having trouble there tonite. any other sites that are as fast? how bout a streaming video site. thanks in advance

i have bellsouth adsl. it is 1.5mbs down and 256kbs up. what should i expect realistly. also if my downloads show in KBs, do i multiply that number by 8 to get kb's?

sorry, couldn't let this get buried before "someone" decided to help.

new to this so bear with me. decided to give running a server a chance tonite. used G6 FTP Server v2.0 (RC1). Anyways gotter going and had trouble with uploads. played a little more and asked for someones help by uploading to me. they came back and said that it actually uploaded faster than it ...

charter pipeline is by far the worse. i dropped em bout a month ago for dsl. its 5 times faster. charter at home however is another story.

I live in South Carolina(Greenville area). I guess I'm getting the max speed, so I can't complain! out of curiosity, is PPPoA better or worse than PPPoE?

my understanding is that most ADSL is one or the other. how do i tell which i have? i am using bellsouth adsl. also after applying the a patch(from the Navas Group) my d/l went from 120KB to 160KB, but I am seeing posts taking about far faster d/l's, like 700KB! I have the 1.5MB connection and I ...

i too have bellsouth only in SC. anyways i did see a big jump. from 130KB to 160KB after installing a tweak. however mine did not come from speedguide. it came from the Navas group. I used speedguides for my cable with no improvement, so this time I tried someone elses. Still like speedguide for ...

They suck...returning modem friday....now have dsl installed...at least 4 times faster than charter. dumpem as soon as an alternative becomes available, thats what i did!

not sure where to turn. bellsouth came by house and checked outside lines. everything outside was fine they said. i recieved and installed filters, software and modem. i connected, although a little slow. tweaked, and got my speed near what the limit is. then it started! suddenly people couldn't ...

just wanna check compared to my old cable connection.

a post note....after tweaking and testing the first time, i rebooted and tested again. same place same file. this time download speeds were 1280kb......love it even more now!

no more charter pipeline and their capped 512kb connection. went with bellsouth adsl. on pipeline i downloaded at around 320kb. after installing adsl (with a usb modem) i was downloading at around 944kb. after installing the tweaks i am downloading at around 960kb. i used happypuppy.com for these ...

i have charter pipeline in south carolina, and they just plain suck! clled bell south 4 days ago and signed up for dsl. once modem gets here and gets set up, its bye-bye to charter. my average d/l speed is around 300 kb's (on a 512 plan). they tell me to expect up to 1500kb on dsl. i'm sure i wont ...

have cable charter pipeline...capped at 512kb, usually average around 320kb. bell south offered me 1500kb service for the same price. will i see it? will i see more than the 320 i'm getting from cable?

posting this just to keep it showing for newcomers. beware of charter pipeline, they are probably the slowest of all cable internet connections. if you have an alternative such as dsl, take a long serious look at it! on pages that test bandwidth, charter pipeline will usually show up somewhere ...

I too am located not far from symarna ga, and have charter through hsa. Yep they suck the big one! We 2 have only a t1, server. my suggestion to anyone loking at cable access through charter, look at all your options. my dl speeds are hardly better than isdn, and the uploads are worse! at present i ...

Rosco, please feel free to email me with any help you have to offer. krackerjak@prodigy.net

your right john, i probably wouldn't(figure of speech i guess). but download and upload speeds are extremely important to me because of why and how i use my connection(those like me know what i mean). i mite add that i also keep a dail-up connection as a back-up, and even subscribe to aol for the ...

I live in Greenville/Mauldin South Carolina area. I tried the patches here, no change.
I have Charter pipeline, yet a friend across town has Charter @ home(formally intermedia) and his speeds are exceptional compared to mine. I have warned him that since charter purchased intermedia, he will soon ...

if you have any other choice besides charter, take a long serious look at them. charter speeds are a complete disappointment. just like their cable tv service, their internet service is well below par of other competitors. there lies the problem. there are no other cable competitiors. a cable com ...

first of all, i am one of the lonely....only 64 mb of memory. anyways, another observation, and perhaps only a coinidence, but i tested my speed once again early this a.m. downloaded the same identical file. one with my download accelorator and the other regular. i actually got faster downloads with ...

mosarian,
previously i have NEVER reached above 45KB/s period! (not even in peaks) now i appear to have steady 47 to 48 with peaks exceeding 50. it works out to roughly a 6% increase. heck its better than ive seen from any other tweaks. i do all my testing downloading quake3 from happypuppy.com. i ...

btw, keep up the great work. i answered my own question btw. i changed the 4096 to 8192 and saw another increase! still not dramatic but an improvement. before any changes i averaged around 43 kilobytes/sec, after the reg. tweaks it stayed the same. after using the number 4096 it went up to around ...

well another tweak bits the dust for me! damn, this is gettting disappointing. first the regristy tweaks here didn't make one bit of difference, now this new one does not either! well it did appear to go up about 1.5 kilobytes, but that may be due to the time of day i tested, and it maybe my ...