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downloading at 4.2 megabits / seconds...upstream at 124 kilobits a second......thanks for the tweaks ....speedguide!!!!!!!!!!

if you have splitts like this ... try and get your cable company to put niose mitigation filters on the legs that go to TV's .. these filters will knock out noise from bad chasis grounds on the TV's and VCR's taht route bad thru the cable because electricity takes the path of least resistance which ...

try going into IE... tools..internet options and advanced tab and restore defaults try windows updates page and see if there are any critical updates that might help you out

UMM this site is full of patches so spend some time reading it if you come accross terms you don't understand go to www.whatis.com ......to test your download speed you can try www.computingcentral.com... on the page go to broadband then bandwidth // then speed test .................www.2wire.com is ...

Try setting your IP up static for a little bit and see if you still loose connection remember that your local provider doesn't want you to be static they eant you to stay DHCP but this will help you trouble shoot if stays fine in static no matter duration of use than maybe your IP is (gulp) shared ...

USB is deffinitley bad if you have other hungry USB devices in your system USB 1.0 is like a 12 MegaByte pipe that all devices share USB 2.0 is like 450 MegaBytes pipe I do service calls on cable modem in the Dallas area and often replace USB to NIC's mainly because the O/S stops liking them....they ...

The more times your cable is split will lower the amount of signal hitting the modem which can take you below or just on the edge of treshhold set for the modem the more negative your signal level the closer to the noise floor you are which can cause retransmision of packets which lowers xfer rates ...

Check Device Manger for conflicts restore defaults in IE

Nice to hear that this one wasn't the fault of the cable company or do you think they shoyuld have resolved this issue for you?