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glen4cindy

I have suddenly noticed that my activity light on my modem and router are nearly glowing steady, instead of the semi-quick flicker that I am used to, even while the PC's are not in use.

Has anyone else noticed any such activity?

glen4cindy

Originally posted by BlackSword
Don't know how you guys came up with your numbers but,,, based on 100kBytes/second average, it would take 100,000 seconds to get to 10Gbyte.

100,000 seconds = 1666.67 minutes = approx. 55 minutes per day.

If they include protocol in the data limit then of the ...

glen4cindy

Well, no help on the issue of not having service.

If you have a Surfboard modem, you can tell by looking at the webpage of the modem. This will tell you many things, one of which is what your Signal-to-noise ratio is. It should be well over 20. Middle to upper 30's is great.

Another figure is ...

glen4cindy

Windows 95 presents a number of problems.

USB doesn't work. Even when it has USB support. The self install kit may have a DSL modem with a usb attachment to the PC.

There are many occasions when the standard PCI network cards do not work too. Many times, an ISA card is needed.

Too many possible ...

glen4cindy

Steve Gibson has alot to say about this subject.

Check it out here:

http://grc.com/su-bondage.htm

glen4cindy

I would be willing to bet that your Customer Agreement prevents you from setting up any servers and using the cable modem service to do so.

@Home has this policy, and Charter, the company that replaced @Home in this area also has a restriction on setting up a server.

They may have discovered a ...

glen4cindy

You might want to make sure that the cable company has the correct MAC address of your modem on your account.

I know in the area where I live, a person can go to Best Buy, buy a modem, hook it up, and they will get a 64 kilobit surf. How long it will work this way, I do not know.

The system is ...

glen4cindy

It is not an uncommon occurance for a network card to not work in a certain PC.

I know not what causes this, but, I see it all the time. Despite having open PCI slots and available interrupts some machines just dont like certain kinds of network cards. The fact that TWO identical cards have not ...

glen4cindy

I didn't have specific knowledge that this was an urban legend, but I do know this to be a fact.

EVERY PC that I have installed high speed data on that is running XP gets much faster throughput, at the time of installation.
This is without any tweaks, as we do not make any registry tweaks at a ...

glen4cindy

What it sounds like to me is that your modem is losing it's lock on the upstream/downstream signals.

If there is a web browser built into your modem, (the surf boards have a great one) you might try looking at the page, usually http://192.168.100.1 will show it. The surfboard has a log that it ...

glen4cindy

I am capped at 1.5 meg download speed, and I typically get between 160 and 170 KB/Sec download speeds.

glen4cindy

If you are using Win 98, or ME you can hit Start, Run, winipcfg, choose your network card that connects to the internet, then choose More info......

This will open a bigger box that will tell you your DNS servers and other info you may need.

For Win NT, 2K, XP, Start, Run, cmd [Enter] ipconfig ...

glen4cindy

My wife would like to be able to play Scrabble over the Internet with a friend. I have a home LAN set up with a Linksys BEFSR41 4 port router. This is plugged into a cable modem.

Is there any way to enable her to play without setting the PC she will be playing on as a DMZ host?

The Scrabble game ...

glen4cindy

The cards you were given probably will not work to link your computers together and to your modem.

The 16/4 refers to a Token Ring card. Cable modems run on the Ethernet standard, not the Token Ring standard.

Check out http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ for lots of info on this subject. It will ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by legalmind
Blackice sucks. To many false reports.
Try Zonealarm.
Get a good router.
As for the light, I never have that problem in Phoenix.
Did in Las Vegas and got use to it.

This directly from the Net Ops manager of my system.

They will not even accept a ZoneAlarm log as ...

glen4cindy

Try this:

goto your linksys router web-based configuration page,
click on the Advanced tab, this opens the Filters tab.

Last item on the list is MTU. Try Enable and 1500 as
the size.

This is what mine is set at and I'm getting 85% of my rated speed cap.

I'm using the BEFSR41 4 Port version.

glen4cindy

I have a 3Com Sharkfin and have no problems with it at all.

I like the "audio" tones that it gives when it gets it's IP address, and there is also and audio tone when it goes down.

I'm not sure that you could request a modem. When I go out for an install or service call, the customer gets whatever ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by EvilAjax
Never even heard of PC-CILLIN..

It is an anti-virus utility. It also scans your e-mail and has web filtering, which I now DO NOT use.

http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/

glen4cindy

I was pretty upset AFTER re-formatting my hard drive, loading everything from scratch, AND patching my registry with the tweeks with NO improvement.

I even used a Best Buy gift card I received as a Christmas gift to purchase a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable Router with a built-in 4 port Ethernet Switch ...

glen4cindy

How do I uninstall the patch?

I tried reverting to a previous registry where my Default Receive Window was like 576, and then ran the patch again. My speed went from 60 KB/Sec to 80 KB/sec, but is no better. For my rated speed, it should be 2x that or near 160 KB/Sec.

glen4cindy

Originally posted by Eugene4Pres
Regardless of all the positive feedbacks on high rwins, you will have to do what works for you, since each and every computer is different. If you do it and don't find the results pleasing, then just reinstall the SG patch again.

The patch IS installed. I ran ...

glen4cindy

I am at a loss to get this figured out.

Here are my settings according to the analyzer:

Browser/OS = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461)

TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by Phantom-Vortex

Kip....do you work for a cable company????Im am really starting to think you do.Oh and my 2 cents,from the isp I work for, the reason is greedy phone companies\isps not wanting people to host anything without paying $$$. :rolleyes:

What is wrong with ...

glen4cindy

Does RR use computer names in the network identification like @home does? I know that when @Home was around, the only way a computer got an IP was by the computer name. Some services use the MAC address of the modem.

Maybe the tech support people just missed that. I have been on service calls that ...

glen4cindy

I'm very sure complaining will do no good whatsoever.

For some reason, the providers seem to NOT be interested in what the users want. I work in a former AT&T @Home area that has become a Charter Pipeline area.

They have three packages:

256k down 64k up $30
768k down 128k up $40
1.5M down 256k up ...

glen4cindy

Charter Communications

Granite City, IL

1.5 Down
256K Up

$0.00

I work for them.

(If I didn't, this is the $79.95 BUSINESS Package)

glen4cindy

This helped me, maybe it will help others too:

Slow Transfer Rates with ICS and High-Bandwidth Devices

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition ...

glen4cindy

1. Bad/unplugged cat 5 cable.
2. Bad port on router.
3. Bad nic in client computer.
4. Corrupted tcp/ip in client computer.
5. Nic corrupted in hardware device manager in client PC.
6. Corrupted NIC drivers in client PC.
7. PC became mis-configured to NOT auto obtain IP address
8. Router unplugged ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by FRoSTY`
i have my cable split many times before coming to my modem.

First there is a connector on the side of my house that connects the 2 cables then it goes into a 3 way splitter and after that it goes into a 2 way spliter. I know i need a cable amp or maybe 2.
where ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by kidd

if they're giving it out in Megabits... then i think it's misleading hence most peepz that don't know much about pc's would think that they would be able to dl in the range of 1.5MBps instead of 150KBps...

Like it or not, speed has always been rated in kilobits ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by amran
sorry guys, but what with the 1.5mbps ?.......... I don't quite get it, does it mean I can download up to a speed of 1.5mbps? if so, why I've never taste anything higher than 100 over kbps....... and if I'm lucky, I can get 200 over kbps.........

Is is possible that ...

glen4cindy

Thanks eddiec.

I did forget about the possibility of a bad channel trap.

In fact, I had one a couple of weeks ago. It was brand new out of the box, never used. It may have worked just fine except that it wouldn't let the upstream through.

I have left a customer without sync only ONCE. It was in a ...

glen4cindy

I know a few things about installation since I am a Data Services Technician with Charter (formerly Charter@Home, AT&T@Home).

A -13 downstream signal is good.

SNR at 33 is also perfect.

The 36 that you mentioned is probably the transmit power, and that number is good too.

Now lets look at things ...

glen4cindy

You should ask your CATV Co. if you can swap your modem for a Surfboard SB4100.

This modem has a standby button on the front of it that disconnects it from the internet, but still allows the @Home servers to querry it for necessary data that is collected about all of their modems.

glen4cindy

Clean install = 1.6 Megabits per second download!

Success!!!!

glen4cindy

Originally posted by earthmofo
The hub is slowing you down. Try getting rid of it and use a router instead to share your connection. I had some speed problems using a hub but switched to a Linksys BEFSR41 V2 router to share my cable connection. I can still share my files and printers but I do not ...

glen4cindy

Okay, I have removed the USB and am now running only NIC's.

Here is my result from http://www.bandwidthplace.com:

Your raw speed was 538947.37 bits per second.

538.9 kilobits per second

This is how communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples of this ...

glen4cindy

Yes, I was speaking of megabits per second.

BUT as far as 550 kilobits per second being good, my service level is 1.5 megabits per second download speed, which I get when I attach DIRECTLY to the modem, but not when I share on this PC.

This speed test was done several times, and when I was the ...

glen4cindy

Originally posted by xbit
get rid of usb, only use the nic. What os are you running?

Windows 98 SE

glen4cindy

Originally posted by MadDoctor
I have a hub (silly me) and it works fine. The USB might be the problem.

That's the thing. No matter the USB or the 2nd NIC, speed result is the same.

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