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DaveM

We should take a look at the speed of the Wireless network Connection.

Your Wireless network is only 11Mbit/second. Thats a lot like 10 Mbit/sec wired networks. On a 10 Mbit connection, It should take about 30 minutes to transfer a CD with 750 Mbytes of files on it.

If you had a 54 Mbit or even a ...

DaveM

I'm behind a 4port wireless Belkin Router, Motorola SB4200 Modem, XP, Norton, Cable "uncapped"
Please tell me the speeds i should be getting and if my TCP/IP Analyzer looks right.
Thanks in advance, i'm a newbie.

You say you are "Uncapped"

If that were True, you'd probably be getting around ...

DaveM

Has he got it figured out yet?

LOL
He always could reinstall Windows.

I remember a Website bug that hosed your computer so bad that all you could do is reinstall your OS from a Clean format hard drive. That was Microsofts solution. Back just when IE 6.0 was newly released and some unscrupulous ...

DaveM

He already said the problem is not with his Modem and/or router because another computer using the same internet connection can get to the destination just fine.

It really sounds like the Internet Explorer Settings I mentioned.

By Default, IE will look them up once, and if they are not there, they ...

DaveM

Have you double checked to make sure that your Browsers settings are set to """Check for Newer version of stored pages:"""and set it to ------>>> "Every visit to the page"

Because if you're on --->>>"Automatically" or worse --->>>> "Never" and you had a problem once, you may never get to that sight ...

DaveM

How slow is it?

If you are reaching your advertised speed that you are paying for, then the answer would be no. You're already there, but you might be able to tweak for a more reliable connection when transfering at or near your speed caps.

DaveM

Yeah, if your copper is split up through a Slick 96, then youre only going to get IDSL.

Your right, for ISDN Speed at about 150 a month for most IDSL setups, It's really stupid to go that route.

Maybe you could ask the Phone company if they would be able to wire you up with a dedicated copper run ...

DaveM

If you have a 2 megabit service, your speed would be... Ta DAAAAAA 2 megabits/second download.

Or... Big files from fast servers get to you really fast, and Web Pages from Fast servers within your own country probably load almost instantaneously.

My answers are pretty vague, because so is your ...

DaveM

If you can't access the site by typing in the URL, you will NOT be able to ping the URL either.

If your DNS server for some reason does not have the URL translation information for the University, maybe the University had changed IP addresses through out the school and the new DNS IP addresses ...

DaveM

Originally posted by wee96
Our testers up here need to be fired, they consistantly give us bad modems back, sometimes even with the labels still on them ahah :D

Ok, here we are at the Head End, today we will be testing bad modems.....

Ok Jimmy plug that there broken modem into the outlet thats ...

DaveM

I forgot to post this before....

You might try looking for "Game Servers" closer to your country of origin to connect and play on. This may very well dramatically improve your gaming enjoyment.

Ya sure, I know how many game servers are set up in North America, but you do have an entire ocean that ...

DaveM

Originally posted by malanl
I am wondering if the limitation is through the printer port speed-as that is how I connect.

You guys seemed to miss the most important part of his post.
The ISDN Modem connects to the Parallel port on his computer ?!?

That doesn't sound ight, but could be some ...

DaveM

Originally posted by Mopwr2u1
out here in oregon it went from 1500/128 to 1800/256

Seattle Washington and surrounding areas had the same increase.

DaveM

You say your traceroute sucks from the UK to Canada (ATI.com)

Well 90 MS to cross the Pond, is nothing to be upset about!

Your time to cross the Atlantic to North America is exactly Normal.

You should feel Lucky because Austrailia has about 150 MS to North America.

DaveM

This is how it sounds to me, like what he wants to do.

He may have a screaming Cable connection. He wants to set up Internet Connection sharing (of any kind) and also a DSL Terminal adapter of some sort.

Then He want's to allow his friend to call his DSL Terminal Adapter to make a connection and ...

DaveM

There is a satelite broadband in the UK,
I think it is Bigpond Internet Service, but I don't remember for sure.
All I know is that I had to contact them once when one of their satellite customers was trying to hack into my computer's ports.

DaveM

The Blue and Blue w/ White wire pair is your first phone line. And it does need to be wired to the red and green (the center two pins) on the wall jack.

There is nothing more to do with it.
If you had a second line you would have the Orange pair wired to yellow and black or the same jack dual phone ...

DaveM

Are you using a router or other NAT?
If you are, then try using Port 21 for FTP. This should clear up the problem that your custom port number is causing.

No, I don't have a solution for NAT, FTP, and using any other port other than the intended Port 21. It seems that with NAT, only Port 21 doesn't ...

DaveM

Originally posted by jdblitz
dont let them install ANYTHING, just ask them to run the lines, verify cable modem connectivity(sync) and you will do the computer part(make sure you tell him you will sign off on the work order). Then just jack the ethernet out from cable modem into wan port on ...

DaveM

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Some cable setups authenticate on MAC...first thing I would try is to power off your cable modem for at least a half hour...then power it up again...with the router on. The cable modem should "forget" the old MAC of your old router, and "learn" the new one of ...

DaveM

If all hops "After" that AT&T hop also have Random packet loss and random high latency, but none before that AT&T server, then you could be onto an issue at that point.

Look for a hop where Packet loss and high latency begins and occurs randomly or consistently after that hop but doesn't exist ...

DaveM

Yes.

If your upload speed cap is reached and maintained by outbound traffic.
Then all your inbound traffic will be brought to a standstill, somewhere around the speed of your outbound cap or slower.

This happens because your requests and acknowledgements for new data get caught up in the traffic ...

DaveM

Hey AT&T is working on expansion.
After stopping on the south side of Spokane Washington 2 years ago in a no build for @Home, AT&T now has announced to their customers that they are building out south of 37 Ave on the south side of Spokane. My father is 1 block beyond and they have already changed ...

DaveM

Originally posted by chpalmer
Unless your lag is caused from packet loss, you probably wont see much improvement there. Fact is, you may see very little change or quite the opposite, just depends on all the factors in play in your situation.

Changing over would be an interesting experiment for ...

DaveM

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread ... did=103032

Check the information I have provided in this thread, read both of my posts.

DaveM

I'm sure you realize I was joking about moving!
LOL
But at times, it makes one think about it, anyhow, especially if you're going to end up with some better type of service, like a house that at best can get 21.4K connections, and moving to a neighborhood with ADSL or Cable Modem service to the home ...

DaveM

carage,
You could move down south towards Kent and Auburn, I haven't heard anybody I know of complain, lately.

Keep calling in to AT&T, when they get enough complaints racked up, they usually fix the service.

I've had to wait through problems like yours usually about once or twice a year, for the ...

DaveM

Just an educated guess, but I think the best you could hope for is to load balance across the 4 IP addresses. But not to be able to actually Shotgun the IP's. As that, if it were possible, would also need to be supported on the ISP end of the DSL connection, to work in the manner which you are ...

DaveM

Carage and Loki, when you speeds are good and when they are slow you need to be running trace routes to sites at least a couple states away. That way you can see where the over crowding is.

In your case carage, I know there is no overcrowding leaving the Seattle metro. And the fact that your ...

DaveM

A signal strength of 0.0 db is perfect. get a negative number down to -15db should work. If you put an amplifier on that line you are probably going to over modulate the incoming signal and actually cause you problems.

My signal strength is -1.4db on the average and runs exceedingly well.

the ...

DaveM

set your IP on your nic to 192.168.100.2
set your default gateway to 192.168.100.1
set your subnet to 255.255.255.0
This CAN NOT be tested through a router, you need your computer's NIC to be connected directly to your RCA Cable modem.

The following URLS give you status reports from your RCA ...

DaveM

It sounds like your node is over crowded.
Especially if the problem happens, say from 3 or 4pm until 12 or 1am.

Monday nights are the busiest nights for people on the net.

DaveM

Originally posted by carage
Thanks for all the help. .......

Besides, are you the legendary DaveM who created the Tribe? ...
.....
Thanks for everything.

You're welcome!

And, no. I am not the same DaveM. But thanks for the flattery. But I just can't steal anybody elses fame!

Take care!

DaveM

Try this speed test
http://www.lagmonster.org/utilities/speedtest/speedtest500.asp

then hit the refresh button. You will see your speeds skyrocket, because the test data has been "cached" in your browser for all subsequent tests after the first one.

Not every test is fool proof, but some are ...

DaveM

They are doing something to make a false report by caching their browser.

Your speed test shows you have a very good connection. Thats great to see!

If you notice, none of those people who were able to trick the download test were able to trick the upload speed test at all.

I noticed one person's ...

DaveM

Previously I told you about a bug that supposedly was fixed my MS and that if you had this problem, “You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You Click a Link”, that you needed to reinstall your OS. This also affects clicking a web link that downloads a file via HTTP and ...

DaveM

This problem was suposed to be fixed with the latest release of IE 6.1. Clicking a link to down load a file, falls into the same category as New Window is Blank or Nothing Happens.....yada yada yada. This means if you right click a link and choose "Open page in a New Window" you again will get the ...

DaveM

Well, it still could be that somebody has your IP address set up on their machine as a static address.

But then, as we narrow things out of the ordinary out of your possibilities list, that your computer could have been tweaked too many times by too many different programs and your TCP/IP stack is ...

DaveM

wwell,
Running trace routes from me to your gateway and to a bunch of your neighbors gave me a heck of a lot of super good results.
No packet loss, 12 to 30 ms trace routes, basically you should have the same great reliable speed that I do.

However, I did randomly test IP addresses and there is one ...

DaveM

No, with those results this doesn't sound normal.
It looks like your network is over crowded.

Have you run traceroutes to places like yahoo.com or some other large bandwidth site and look at the responses along the way?

You may be having local packet loss or just plain high latency getting to your ...

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Re: Typical ISDN Speeds?

Just an FYI about AT&T Expanding services

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