Dedicating Memory To The NIC Card

NotFastEnough · Post by **NotFastEnough** » Tue May 08, 2001 9:56 am

I read somewhere that you should dedicate a certain amount of memory to you NIC card for maximum perfomance, but I can't remember the amount of memory to dedicate... and I sure don't know how to perform this feat!

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!

NotFastEnough · Post by **NotFastEnough** » Tue May 08, 2001 10:07 am

Ok guys, I found it! I added the line "Irq12=4096" to my system.ini file. Hope that is what I was looking for!

pimptrizkit · Post by **pimptrizkit** » Tue May 08, 2001 10:44 am

hey i have been looking for that tweak think you can post the url here?

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue May 08, 2001 11:30 am

http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_irq.shtml

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue May 08, 2001 11:32 am

Originally posted by NotFastEnough:
Ok guys, I found it! I added the line "Irq12=4096" to my system.ini file. Hope that is what I was looking for!

Just make sure of the IRQ that your NIC is using! It may or may not be IRQ12

NotFastEnough · Post by **NotFastEnough** » Tue May 08, 2001 11:44 am

Got is set up just fine... Im showing a max of 1.5Mbits/s down and 543.6kbits/s up according to bluemarble.com.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Tue May 08, 2001 3:06 pm

use the tweaks in my sig

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Tue May 08, 2001 9:31 pm

You can also use 6144, But don't go any higher then that. That's what I use. Did not see much differance with 4096.

Wagnaard · Post by **Wagnaard** » Tue May 08, 2001 10:54 pm

Is this tweak good for a Win2000 machine as well?

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Tue May 08, 2001 11:15 pm

Sysedit will not work in ME, so how do I get into the system.ini file in ME? Dang it. I liked sysedit.

dannjr · Post by **dannjr** » Wed May 09, 2001 12:19 am

Wagnaard
2k dont need it but you might want to try the ramdrive on it

evil brembo
system.ini can be gotten to by typing from the run command system.ini or open it from the notepad

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed May 09, 2001 1:31 am

Hey guys1 I put that tweak in this morning and so far I have noticed quite a change! I was skeptical at first but it seemed worthwhile to give it a try and indeed it did make my connection a bit more robust! I'm noticing about a 10-15% change in download speeds already...when I get the time I'll post some pics with the settings as is and with the tweaks in place so we can tell for sure...pretty cool!

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Thu May 10, 2001 12:26 am

Winguard,Dannjr right try the ram drive. You will get better results.

This tweak were you add mem to your nic is really still not proved. It works for some and others it don't. Way back in some of the old archives for cable forum. Their is a post that goes on and on about it. Weither it works or not. It works for me.

[ 05-10-2001: Message edited by: Storm90 ]