SG Broadband Community

Today marks 19 years since the SG domain was obtained, and exactly 20 years since I started with all these TCP/IP tweaks and publishing the info. Time Warner was beta-testing their first "Road Runner" cable modem pilot project in the Tampa Bay area in 1998 when it all started.

I remember that public gateway IP being x.x.x.1 and my cable modem being at x.x.x.2 heh. Anyway, cheers to the regulars who are still around, and everyone that remembers the dawn of residential broadband

Happy birthday speedguide.net !

Those were the "good ole days" when tweaking was a necessity.

Happy birthday, Speedguide and all!!

God, the Lancity cable modem days.

Oh man! I'm getting old!
What brought me here to meet Philip and Ken? During the very first days of broadband, up here in New England, SNET was juuuuuust rolling out DSL. I was looking to upgrade our biz clients from having multiple dial up modems in various forms....to the higher speeds of DSL. (1.5 megs..woohoo!)

Linksys had just rolled out its first couple of hundred BEFSR41 routers off the assembly line. The early firmware was buggy has heck. Business clients were heavy email users. The earliest versions of firmware on the routers had issues with MTU and other network related settings, and many email clients had problems sending email with files attached. Working with Linksys support over this...their support actually steered me over to Philip and his early patches for Windows, to adjust the MTU, and a tweaked windows system file, if I recall, vtcp386.sys or something similar.

So that got me to come to this site many times back then to download those files to get clients PCs working...eventually Linksys got their firmware better, and by that time I discovered the forums and started hanging out.

Met quite a few members over the years...aside from Philip and Ken quite a few times,
Bouncer, YardofStuf, Noevo, BMED, (there was someone else from the Michigan meet and I apologize for not being able to remember) KoldKillah, Lefty, Meggie, MorbidPete, TinyTim,

...there's got to me at least another name or two I'm forgetting...

This thread got me thinking about some of my first posts. I went back and took a look at some of them just to see where my head was at that time. While going through them I found all sorts of funny, but dated posts....

CableDude wrote:I have 3 gigs on my laptop running Vista Home Premium (32-bit). Runs really nice.

YeOldeStonecat wrote:..there's got to me at least another name or two I'm forgetting...

I came here because I thought there were going to be refreshments.

MadDoctor wrote:

I came here because I thought there were going to be refreshments.

Oh there were....you just don't remember because we put mickeys in yours...you don't remember that morning you woke up with a sore butt?

Happy Bday Speedguide.
I too started with Roadrunner cable.
I remember the win98 days of scanning the WAN for other IPs on my cable block and then connecting to their computers and accessing files directly through IE4.
Next came Black Ice Defender.
Then the Linksys BEFSR41.

TonyT wrote:Happy Bday Speedguide.
I too started with Roadrunner cable.
I remember the win98 days of scanning the WAN for other IPs on my cable block and then connecting to their computers and accessing files directly through IE4.
Next came Black Ice Defender.
Then the Linksys BEFSR41.

Yeah, I remember that too, turning on File and Print sharing was enough to see other people's PCs on the node, lol.

Road Runner tech installing modem sent me here for tweaks. Beep-Beep!

Yep, found this place looking for tweaks after I got Roadrunner.

Happy B-Day SG!

YeOldeStonecat wrote:...you just don't remember because we put mickeys in yours...you don't remember that morning you woke up with a sore butt?

*stomps hoof and shows green teeth*


I saw the photos. No need to rub it in!!

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Oh there were....you just don't remember because we put mickeys in yours...you don't remember that morning you woke up with a sore butt?

lol Maddoc did Bill Cosby give you a pudding pop?

Well there was isp broadband expo at the local school in 1999 and I had to see what all the fuss was. I got a business card from a fella there who told me speedguide.net could help me as i was having lag issues. I had just purchased my top of the line pentium 266 with 32 mb of ram and a 4gb hard drive for only $2000.00

Randy wrote:I had just purchased my top of the line pentium 266 with 32 mb of ram and a 4gb hard drive for only $2000.00

Sounds like a beast One of those "cartridge" slot processors if I remember correctly, I had an Athlon like that at some point in time around then.

Good times thinking back to those days.. just finished up a six week class remotely nationwide (WebEx) teaching the new version of CompTIA Security+ and referenced the site here. :-)

Cheers, thanks for the reference

Speaking of security, we get quite a bit of traffic for the TCP/UDP ports database, we may have the most extensive one online.

Philip wrote:Cheers, thanks for the reference

Speaking of security, we get quite a bit of traffic for the TCP/UDP ports database, we may have the most extensive one online.

YES! S.G. always comes up in Google searches.. I'll have to remember that next time to refer to my students. I'm also teaching the new CompTIA Cyber Security Analyst+ (CySA+) soon.. as I got that certification last year. Really good stuff.. all blue team / security operations center (SOC) related.

You were in charge of refreshments, MadDoctor. You don't remember?



Happy Birthday, Speedguide. Another 19 years sounds reasonable.

I came here for cable modem uncapping lol. here I am

Sarahnn wrote:You were in charge of refreshments, MadDoctor. You don't remember?

Then it's true! I was drugged!!!!

happy birthday [SG]

Happy Birthday! Let`s have a party!

Hi Immy!

How could you YOSC.
I still have nightmares of driving BMEDs Big Ass Van, with a bunch of drunk SGers.

I needed help setting up my new Netgear RT314 on my first broadband connection and found this place via search engine. I got some really good help in the networking forums and started hanging out on the forums a lot afterwards just soaking up the knowledge that was being shared here. I was early in my IT career, working ridiculous hours deep in the IT trenches that blessed me with diverse exposure to lots of fun toys and applications, etc.. so combining my growing work experience with things I picked up here on the forums along the way, I was eventually able to return the favor and help others here just like those who helped me before.

Then I started posting on the general forum more... got to meet some SGers in person. Somewhere in there the Battlefield 1942 days came and a fairly sizable group of us became a close family of gaming warriors on an almost nightly basis. Those BF/DC nights were some of the most fun nights ever spent at home drinking beer and yelling at my monitor with headphones on until my wife would come beat on (or throw a shoe at) my home-office door at 2am to tell me to STFU and come to bed.

Wow 19 years! Doesn't seem that long ago. Amazing! Congrats Philip!

BaLa wrote:How could you YOSC.
I still have nightmares of driving BMEDs Big Ass Van, with a bunch of drunk SGers.

Ahh yes....and..there was 1x more, he was a skinny dude.
You still driving OTR?

Forgot earlier..
Happy Birthday SG!!

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Ahh yes....and..there was 1x more, he was a skinny dude.
You still driving OTR?

Yep for now, will likely do something local within a year or so.

Wanted to say AAFStriker?

BaLa wrote:Forgot earlier..
Wanted to say AAFStriker?

Bingo!

This site was THE PLATFORM for internet speed and anything computer related.
I lived here
It was awesome!

And to think I joined 1 year after and am still coming along, happy birthday ME?? haha

Just started my colllege computer deploma at 19 years old when this site went live.....

We're legal to drink in most countries outside of the US now

Happy belated Birthday Speedguide.net !

Yes, Happy belated Birthday Speedguide. I finally found this thread - long story but I managed to log in under my original profile but it would not let me post. It said I was restricted under my old name reeo. I knew it had been a few years
since my last visit. What I did not realize my join date was 6 or 7th month of 2001. I remember many of you, got rid of dial up and finally those junk floppy's lol

RodE wrote:Yes, Happy belated Birthday Speedguide. I finally found this thread - long story but I managed to log in under my original profile but it would not let me post. It said I was restricted under my old name reeo. I knew it had been a few years
since my last visit. What I did not realize my join date was 6 or 7th month of 2001. I remember many of you, got rid of dial up and finally those junk floppy's lol

Welcome back..

Updated the email on your old username, you should be able to reset your password and login.

Philip wrote:Cheers, thanks for the reference

Speaking of security, we get quite a bit of traffic for the TCP/UDP ports database, we may have the most extensive one online.

No problem Philip.. I just referenced this link: https://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-cab ... ed-good-78
On a very large firearms forum that I belong to, because cable ISP's came up in conversation... so I posted the link in regards to that article on the site here, in relation to SNR and Dbv levels. It's good to keep track to make sure there are normal levels DS / US. Happy New Year. - Tom