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oh if ur talkin about the thing on dslreports.com it doest matter what speed u put it... jus put in 3000kbits which is prolly what ur download cap is

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im guessing 3000kbit/56 or 33kbit

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Originally posted by Scooter33

Actually, the ISP can tell by the MAC address that you are running a router, but most of them don't care as long as you aren't eating huge amounts of bandwidth...

alot of routers have an option to clone ur nic's mac adress..

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Originally posted by DaveM
I don't think you would get much discernable improvements.

I have seen a "16 Bit ISA 10 Mbit/sec NIC" perform just as well as a "32 Bit 100 mbit/sec PCI nic" on the same Cable service.

To each their own.

You would see more improvement for a Video Editing system with ...

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Originally posted by Hybridmonolith

They won't say a word, its perfectly legal to do that. No worries

yup and its also pretty hard for the isp to find out ur sharing ur connection from what i know

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i think there's a couple of pppoe managers for mac... so dsl works... and there's dsl that doest use pppoe and should work on any os dat has tcp/ip... u can also get a router with built in pppoe and jus use dhcp to connect the modem to the router and use dsl...
the guy u talked to didnt know what he ...

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yea ne1 dat installs win xp should run xp-antispy... u can get it from http://www.xp-antispy.de

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Originally posted by YARDofSTUF
well then ur cap is either higher or RR isnt trying hard, because a cable cap is a cap if ur capped at 1500 u get 1500 98% of the time.
if hes on a docsis modem, it has this option in the cfg file called maxburstdownload or sometin like dat i dont remeber exactly ...

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i get around 170KB/sec steady... i got rogers hi-speed 1500/192 on a Ericsson Piperider hm200c docsis modem
i used 2 get 300+kB/sec steady @ all times b4 they cut our speeds in 1/2 from 3000/384

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my uncle lives in LA and he said he has AT&T

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unless its 1 of the routers owned by ur isp u cant do anything about it... even if it was owned by ur isp u'd have to complain to them alot and hope they get it fixed...

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Originally posted by Norm
My PC isn't even in the running of "best" PC, but because it's MY PC it is "THE BEST" :D

Man, your dollar must be worth a lot less than our Canadian dollars (ours is a bit better than half the worth of a U.S. dollar) , that price is outrageous for that PC..
We could ...

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damn mikey those r some low pings... i never thought dsl can ping so low... most users ping around 13-19ms on fastpath... and like 50+ on interleaved... i ping 5-7ms on my cable... im on a ericsson piperider hm200c cable modem... neway thorz ur pings are still good... most cable customers on my isp ...

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rogers used to be 3000/384... they cut speeds in half to 1500/192
i have a ericsson piperider modem and i ping around 7ms to my 1st hop... my speeds are 1250/200...
rogers screws over lots of customers... i suggest switching to a dsl company... u can find alot of them on http://www.canadianisp.com

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probably not...

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Originally posted by mccoffee
so how much of my capp should i see wich is 1.5/256 about 90% or more like 70% well atleast it will be consitent i hope not much bouncing up and down like cable.
if u use pppoe ur only gonna get about 80-85% of that bandwidth @ the most... the tcp and pppoe transfer ...

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i think its gonna be the same as sympatico...
u should try http://www.canadianisp.com
u can find lots of bell nexxia dsl resellers there... most of em have no caps or higher caps...

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are u on sympatico dsl an planning on getting rogers hispeed?
rogers is going to have limits too by the end of the year or so

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Originally posted by noaht1980
if you dont download any warez or illegal software,games then why are you so worried about it

regular downloads of real free software you probably will never download 10 GB in one month

its easy to go over just by watching movie trailers, listening to online ...

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yea my hops time out from 4-8 unless i ping them with packets under 45bytes... i use visualroute and u can set the packet size and pings per hop so i just trace with 32byte packets now i can see all the hops... my packet loss was almost gone last nite... it seems to be back to "normal" now

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i'm gettin packet loss too...
mine starts at the first hop...
i talked to some guy on the rbua.org forums and he said he got a honest answer from a rogers tech... he said alot of the gateways are fried... i dun know exactly what it means and i'm not on the same isp as u but since adelphia is broke i ...

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i think cox has a 256kbps upload cap... i dunno tho

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lol no u cant
and i dont think ne1 here is gonna help u wit it

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Originally posted by phatphunky
I have Rogers @home in Toronto as well... I noticed my speeds severely dropped just last week... I called a so-called technician and we went through several steps... resetting the modem, pinging different sites and running some speed tests from various websites ...

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u have to use pop.bloor.phub.net.cable.rogers.com and smtp.bloor.phub.net.cable.rogers.com because ur computer doesnt use rogers' dns servers when ur behind a router so pop and smtp r invalid adresses

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get the .reg files or jus maually add the tweaks

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Originally posted by Technoid
Same problem as well
RR tested the line signal and found the trunk line was degraded.
(Recent utility line construction in the area). They put an amp on the line till they replaced the trunk line. All is now well.
holy **** theres actually cable isps that admit ...

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ur welcome... i got some serious problems with rogers too... if they dont get fixed by the end of the month i'm switching too...

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i got 3 network cards off rogers till now... lol

There are some isp's u should consider, they all resell bell's dsl but u get router thru their own backbone not bell's and the're all unlimited bandwidth
http://www.canadianisp.com is pretty much a isp search site... u'll find like 20 dsl isp's in ...

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i live in scarboro too... the not so ghetto area... neway rogers is garbage for most users... they cut our speeds in 1/2 without even telling us... we went from 3000/384 to 1500/192... is bull****... u shouldnt've bought a new NIC... its pointless... its a problem at rogers' end... even calling tech ...

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upload always affects download... on broadband... especially on a 128k upload... for me it affected the download on both dsl and cable...

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http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rogers
u'll get more help here... ur phub is highly congested... u should call rogers and ask them for a docsis modem... the docsis cmts's are almost empty cuz they were only installed like a few months ago... u'll get better pings and way better speeds

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Originally posted by BigAmp
when they up your rate and put on caps at the same time.

aka bell sympatico and rogers

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http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/22 ... 1025424328

most i ever got was 2973/385

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1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms skillton.mshome.net [192.168.0.1]
2 32 ms 7 ms 12 ms 10.55.56.1
3 12 ms 7 ms 7 ms gw01.mtag.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.89.9
]
4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms gw01.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.81.162
]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request ...

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run a speedtest from
http://nyc.speakeasy.net
http://chi.speakeasy.net
post some resutls here
if u get over like 1500/200 then u should probably keep ur cable
also call ameritech and ask em how fast the dsl they were offerning u is
also maybe the $10 cheaper was just a promotion for the first ...

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lan, t3, or just cached file?

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damn dat sounds good

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ADSL is DSL...
aDSL = asynchronimus digital subscriber line which means the speeds are not the same upload and download
theres also sDSL which means synchronimus digital subscriber line
the speeds are the same in both upload and download...
the best dsl is vDSL (i dont know what v means) but its ...

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rwin wont change ping times...
no tweaking will infact... u probably cant do anything about it... its ur isp's fault.

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