New tweak maybe, Beta 1

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 11:36 pm

You are EXACTLY right earthmofo, AFD buffer tweaks are COMPLETELY unrelated to the NIC buffer tweak. AFD tweaks can be used with any type of connection 56k, cable, dsl etc. AFD.sys is the Ancillary Function Driver which basically acts as an entry point for Winsock functions to get to TCPIP.sys, NOT a NIC buffer. The sys.ini tweak (NIC) is specifically for a broadband connection via NIC, it won't work with a connection of any other type. They will both help your connection, but are unrelated.

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 11:56 pm

Which one should be allowed to use more resources (memory)? Or, would a balanced approach be better. Using large buffers for both would seem like a waste of memory even if they do help the connection.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 12:01 am

The large AFD buffers only slowed my connection down, I did alot of testing and found what works best for me, expirement and see what works for you.

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 12:06 am

Looks like I have a lot of testing to do. Maybe I should put on a pot of coffee

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 2:14 am

Coffee, I await de conclusion, no nipping

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 12:26 pm

Ummm,with tweak, IE uses 16,397 KBs to display [url]http://www.yahoo.com,[/url] without tweak, same. Downloads uses same amount of memory with or without tweak as well. Am I missing something here? How else can I be assured that my NIC IRQ has been assigned the memory given in the system.ini?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 12:30 pm

Philip's word is no good, oh me oh my

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:00 pm

Phil who? I can't monitor anywhere in windows whether I have memory assigned and being utilized by an IRQ. If Philip says it does, what kind of logic is that? Oh, Phil just said 64 bit Windows XP OS works with Athlon 1.33 CPU. LOL.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:06 pm

Phil who

Well you have choice, do or don't, Rusty Wallace and his sidekick Mark Martin who, alittle long in the tooth fer me, lol, your fast enough anyway, make a toddy, lol, jk

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:10 pm

Dale 8th last year in standings. I am going to put some dosh on Sterlin. Wagerz?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:10 pm

Lee, without a doubt web pages are loading much faster, my downloads are about the same, and my speed tests are the much more consistant (anytime of the day). Seems to work for me, if you don't see a difference, don't use it. You know enough about computers to know that not everything makes sense, reguardless of who says it, MS or anyone else.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:12 pm

Lee you have overtweaked, one option left:

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:13 pm

The memory is reserved upon system startup. It has nothing to do with the amount of memory IE consumes when running.

To see if the memory was allocated look at how much free memory is available after startup with and without the tweak.

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:19 pm

Fresh reboot and cold reboot give me 72 Meg usage during idle with or without tweak. I tried that test as well. That is why I am questioning whether my physical ram is being assigned to the specified IRQ, and I have found no evidence that it does.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:26 pm

Turn out the lights, the party's over, put the coffee on, lol

Post by **Philip** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 3:34 pm

Originally posted by John

They say that all good things must end...

As for those doubting the system.ini tweak please email Brian Livingston, author of many books on Windows tweaking- gaurantee you have seen or read one before. He did a writeup on it about a year and a half ago for Info World.

Actually, after Brian Livingston wrote that editorial John Navas almost convinced him it's a hoax... He called and asked what are our grounds and so on, but I couldn't give him a 100% proof.

As with all tweaks, use it if you want, I have received at least 100 emails saying it did wonders and 100 saying its a hoax... On my testing machine it does reserve the RAM, there is a diference in the available resources with or without it. However RAM shouldn't be assigned to IRQs, from a programming point of view it doesn't make much sense.... You judge for yourself.

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 3:49 pm

I know that by increasing the FSB on the CPU, increases the PCI slot frequency from 66 MHz to, in my case, 70 Mhz did some wonders, but I don't recommend overclocking to anyone.

neo86 · Post by **neo86** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 6:02 pm

Clearing your browser cache using IE (which I doubt most of you are doing) is pointless. IE doesn't really clear it completely. The only way to truly clear it is to use a batch file to erase it through command prompt during startup.

Unless you clear your cache properly all your results are invalid.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 6:11 pm

It's not pointless, makes me zoom

Quote from web:

Clearing Cache

Internet Explorer

Press the Refresh button or use the menu options View, Refresh.
This will update any Web page stored in your disk cache with the latest content on the Web.

If Refresh fails to display the updated page, empty your Internet Explorer disk cache.
For Internet Explorer version 4.0:
On the View menu of your Internet Explorer toolbar, click Internet Options.
Click the General tab.
In the Temporary Internet files area, click Delete Files, then click OK.
Click OK to close Internet Options.
For Internet Explorer version 5.0, 5.5, 6.0:
On the Tools menu of your Internet Explorer toolbar, click Internet Options.
Click the General tab.
In the Temporary Internet files area, click Delete Files, then click OK.
Click OK to close Internet Options.

stevenpro · Post by **stevenpro** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 7:48 pm

The "buffer" tweak has me FFFFFFFFFFFlyin'

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 7:56 pm

Reminds me of that #8 Bud car

neo86 · Post by **neo86** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 10:15 pm

*sigh*

I guess it's your loss.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 1:03 am

neo86, whats the problem, you ran out of TP, lol, jk

SnotRocket · Post by **SnotRocket** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:38 pm

If you are running windows 2000 or NT ..it is easy to see the memory that was allocated...READ the POSTS Lee

Best,
Snot