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Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:02 am**

Hi I just wanted to Take a moment to say how much I enjoy my @home connection.I like to think of myself as a hardcore gamer. I'm also a cable modem installer by trade. I install them in a nearby town. It wasnt untill recently that Cable was in availible in my town, so I had been using Bellsouth DSL(while I wated For Cable). I am MUCH happier now my pings are lower (generally 25-50ms In TRIBES).I did however implement every speed tweak I know to see such performance . As for download speeds Bellsouth didnt even come close. My current best with @home was the 80MB counterstrike patch i downloaded at 325 KILOBYTES/sec. "KILOBYTES not kilobits" So my question is "Am I The Only One Happy With @HOME?

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 2:19 am**

Originally posted by ucb-poostick:
Am I The Only One Happy With @HOME?

yup

I cancelled my service (ATT@Home) a few days ago.
DSL--here I come, again.

[This message has been edited by glc1 (edited 01-06-2001).]

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:07 am**

I love it!

* Results
* Your public IP address is
Hops left before discard (TTL) is 114
TCPopts hex string is 020405b001010402
Max Segment Size is 1456
* Your MTU is set ok
SACK Permitted (RFC2018)
Ping stability 72 68 68 68 67 66 67 67 73 67
* Quick packet-loss tested ok
DefaultRcvWindow (RWIN) is 39000
Your RWIN limits you @68.3ms to 4568kbps
Your RWIN limits you @200ms to 1560kbps
* Your RWIN is set ok at 39000
Your Path MTU Discovery is ON
Max sized data packet from you 1496
* Conclusion.. HEALTHY SETUP!
* End
Your download speed : 3498125 bps, or 3498 kbps.
Browsers would show : about a 427 k/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 101137 bps, or 101 kbps.
Your connection rocks .. above the 1mbit barrier!

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Quest for Knowledge

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:19 am**

I was happy until about a month ago when I started getting this in Quake2 (red blocks represent packet loss).

Happens about every 30 seconds to 2 minutes of gameplay. Any idea why? I'm desperate for a solution here

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 8:20 am**

I said quake2 but this happens in all my online games actually (diablo2, everquest, quake3, etc) and happens with any server i try.

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 11:47 am**

Originally posted by Scoot:
I love it!

* Results
* Your public IP address is
Hops left before discard (TTL) is 114
TCPopts hex string is 020405b001010402
Max Segment Size is 1456
* Your MTU is set ok
SACK Permitted (RFC2018)
Ping stability 72 68 68 68 67 66 67 67 73 67
* Quick packet-loss tested ok
DefaultRcvWindow (RWIN) is 39000
Your RWIN limits you @68.3ms to 4568kbps
Your RWIN limits you @200ms to 1560kbps
* Your RWIN is set ok at 39000
Your Path MTU Discovery is ON
Max sized data packet from you 1496
* Conclusion.. HEALTHY SETUP!
* End
Your download speed : 3498125 bps, or 3498 kbps.
Browsers would show : about a 427 k/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 101137 bps, or 101 kbps.
Your connection rocks .. above the 1mbit barrier!

Cool Thanx scoot Yours Smokes too !!!

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2001 3:26 pm**

While this isn't the fastest I've achieved (fastest average on this very same download was 489KBps)

I love my @home. I'm a bigtime gamer too, among the top 10 with XCTF for Quake2. So my ping is pretty important to me. The downloads are a perk too ^^

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2001 4:37 pm**

NPORTMAN, I was browsing these forums looking for some hints as to why I've been receiving some strange timeouts and dropped packets while I play TFC and UT, and saw your netgraph pics.

I live in Richardson too, and have experienced the EXACT difficulties you have. This all started within the first week of december, and has been ongoing ever since.

I think I shall send you an email to see if you've gotten any info out of the customer service people.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2001 7:50 pm**

I have Comcast@home and I have to say that I am very pleased. ALthough my downloads aren't spectacular (around the 200kB-300kB/s range), I get nice pings in CS (around 50ms). One time I played on a server that was here on the West Coast and I hovered around the 34ms range the entire game... that's like a LAN game!

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2001 8:27 am**

Originally posted by Scoot:
I love it!

* Results
* Your public IP address is
Hops left before discard (TTL) is 114
TCPopts hex string is 020405b001010402
Max Segment Size is 1456
* Your MTU is set ok
SACK Permitted (RFC2018)
Ping stability 72 68 68 68 67 66 67 67 73 67
* Quick packet-loss tested ok
DefaultRcvWindow (RWIN) is 39000
Your RWIN limits you @68.3ms to 4568kbps
Your RWIN limits you @200ms to 1560kbps
* Your RWIN is set ok at 39000
Your Path MTU Discovery is ON
Max sized data packet from you 1496
* Conclusion.. HEALTHY SETUP!
* End
Your download speed : 3498125 bps, or 3498 kbps.
Browsers would show : about a 427 k/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 101137 bps, or 101 kbps.
Your connection rocks .. above the 1mbit barrier!

Hi!
Can anyone help me to set this settings on my computer.
thank you

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2001 11:39 am**

well im from singapore, and i subscribe to the cable internet service here. I must say that it rocks cuz i can reach download speeds of up to 800KBPS, that is if i download stuff from local websites =)

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2001 2:15 am**

my @home works fine, the upload is not capped here either im around 4070kbits down and 256kbits up most of the time.

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2001 11:15 am**

I do say I love my cable modem when im downloading I usually get around 500kb/s but it isnt so great for an online game I play called subspace.. most of the time my upstream is really bad I get 2.0 and above me to server ploss.. I do use @home anyone know what I can do to help this?

Posted: **Sat Jun 16, 2001 11:00 am**

excuse my untimely response, but I'm new here and wanted to make sure all open Subspace issues are covered. I'd hate to see anyone miss out on the greatest on-line game ever abandoned

Subspace Ploss help can be found at: http://sfss.org/ploss/

You may also find this information helpful if you're an Infantry player.

Posted: **Sat Jun 16, 2001 6:15 pm**

I am happy with my Comcast@Home connection. I live in TN:

TCP options string = 020405b40103030301010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 513920
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 3 bits
Unscaled Receive Window = 64240
RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64240 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product:
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 20556.8 kbps (2569.6 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 8222.72 kbps (1027.84 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 36 hops
TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000

Speed test to Atlanta, GA:
** Speed 2184(down)/na **
(At least 43 times faster than a 56k modem)

Posted: **Sat Jun 16, 2001 11:08 pm**

well, my @home was very unreliable, so i canceled it and got DSL, sure its much MUCH slower, but at least i can have access to the internet WHENEVER i want, not downlines or anything of that kind.

But i must say, that once the 2 way Look Cable comes out, i'm getting that for sure, they say their modems are twice as fast as @Home's (3mbits)

Posted: **Sun Jun 17, 2001 4:51 pm**

Sure beats dial-up....
also better than a lot of residential DSL setups (commercial DSL is a different story, but you pay big for the massive bandwidth.)

@Home has been good for me overall...It would be nice to have the @Work package though

, better upstream performance.

-Stu

Posted: **Mon Jun 18, 2001 11:31 am**

I am also an avid Tribes 1 player .... been playing for about 3 years now. The first 2 years were on dial-up then I switched over to @ home cable and it is a HUGE difference from 300-450 ping times to 30-60

But I must say that because of the dial-up to cable switch I can crush most everyone.

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 5:43 am**

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$loc = "Calgary, Alberta, Canada";
$isp = "Shaw @ Home Cable <cg.shawcable.net>";
$speed1 = "TCP options string = 020405b4010303030101080a000000000000000001010402
 
MTU = 1500 
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.
 
MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1448, which is less than MSS because of Timestamps, or other TCP/IP options used.
 
Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 373760 
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 3 bits 
Unscaled Receive Window = 46720 
RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS: 
513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
 64240 (MSS x 44)
 
bandwidth * delay product:
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 14950.4 kbps (1868.8 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 5980.16 kbps (747.52 KBytes/s) @ 500ms
 
MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON
 
Time to live left = 19 hops
TTL value is ok.
 
Timestamps (RFC1323) = ON
Note: Timestamps add 12 bytes to the TCP header of each packet, reducing the space available for useful data.
 
Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON
 
IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000";
$speed2 = "Downloaded from [url]http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1/nresults[/url] are/nTest running..........
** Speed 3344(down)/336(up) kbps **
(At least 66 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.";
echo("Hi, I live in $loc, my isp is $isp. my speeds are/n/n
$speed/n/n/n
$speed2/n/n/n
I am still not happy with this, average download is 400kb-1.4mb sec.
 Any tweak I see I try, I tried caculating every value by hand, putting a magnet on my RJ45 to remove noise.. Anything I hear I try long as it seems logical/n-Dave
PHP]

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 5:44 am**

oops! i thought I could put php in there!!!

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 5:55 am**

testing new sig

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 6:55 am**

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 $blah = "test"; echo"$blah";

What do you think of my sig? too long maybe?

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 7:25 am**

Yeh, maybe a bit wordy...

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 10:21 am**

In my area @home seems pretty good. I have aDSL....but with a really high quality fast ISP....not the crappy local phone company which sucks. Yes cable around here generally beats DSL in raw downloading and uploading, but I beat the pants off it with my low ping. Yet compare cable against phone company DSL, and cable wins in pings too.

Depends on how smart you are when you shop and what your priorities are. My friends can brag all they want they they can download a hundred meg file faster than me....but I don't care, because I'll out ping them all day and all night, and I can play with several game clients from my house, unlike many cable setups which skyrocket their ping whenever 2 or more players try to play at once from the LAN.

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2001 7:32 pm**

Hey how do you find out all that information about your connection ? I think my connection sucks royaly, my download speed is about 50-60 kbps, is there anything i can do about this crappy speed ?
THanks

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2001 2:01 am**

Originally posted by makman10
Hey how do you find out all that information about your connection ? I think my connection sucks royaly, my download speed is about 50-60 kbps, is there anything i can do about this crappy speed ?
THanks

Check out http://www.speedcorp.net for some decent tweaks.
-Dave

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2001 10:04 am**

THanks a lot Mr. Dave, ill try that.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2001 6:58 pm**

ucb-poostick, your prolly getting good dl speeds because they arent many people with @home in your area but within weeks when people start getting @home u will see how slow it gets

SG Broadband Community

Am I the only one happy with @home????

Am I the only one happy with @home????

i'm wasnt very happy with it, but...

HOW

Re: HOW

Thanks