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Why is it that download caps are so much higher than upload caps in most cases? I'm sure it's a money/profit reason that cable companies have, but what is it about upload speeds that they are capped more than download?

Lol, I love charter pipeline. Yes the download speeds are slow. I have a 768/256 transfer rate for 60 dollars a month. But I don't really use cable for downloading. I use it for gaming. The great thing about charter is that I'm in St. Louis and I ping 40-50 to almost ANY server! I mainly play quake ...

Hmm, sounds nice. I use my cable mainly for the excellent pings that I can get, and I rarely use it for downloading anything bigger than 20 megs. So it would benefit me to set a low RWIN value? Right now it's set at 20440. My connection speed is 768/256

It seems there is some kind of ration with ping and bandwidth when dealing with RWIN values. Is this true? It seems that a lower RWIN reduces ping and bandwidth, and a higher RWIN increases ping and bandwidth. Can someone confirm this?

Actually I've conducted a test as to whether or not that worked. I tried a class 1 Idaho potato and a potato grown from my backyard. While neither one seemed to increase my network capabilities, I did find the potato in my backyard a bit more "aromatic."

I'm obsessed with lowering my latency even by 1 millisecond if I can do it. I understand that almost all of it has to do with the lines and my own isp, but anything on my end I can do, will do. Right now the cheapest thing i have in my system is a 10 dollar linksys nic from wal mart. Do you think i ...

Looks great.
I've started the process. I now have a ramdisk R: drive but it says there's 0 bytes available. In the registry it says I've devoted a meg to it.
Any solutions?

Nother problem. Where is the startup folder in XP?

I read this wonderful idea of a tweak at cablenut's explaining the benefits of a properly set up ramdrive. I have two questions though.

1) Do these ramdrive instructions include XP? ie. Can I do this with XP pro?

2) Are there noticeable benefits to creating this ramdrive? Does the mileage vary ...

I saw that thread earlier and tried it, thanks. I don't have ATT, but I know that pretty much everywhere I go goes through the att backbone in New Jersey first. I actually have Charter and have had it for a couple years. Does that WAN ip of 192.168 give any clue as to what my problem may be? Let me ...

I use win xp and my cable has been great so far. But, alas, a problem has arisen. Pings, download speeds are topnotch and so is browsing, but after five minutes or so, I can't do anything. Can't play online, can't browse download, nuthin. funny thing is my router's lights are all good and my cable ...

Just to clarify, so when this happens it's usually a problem with my packet being sent from my isp, not ATT accepting my packet? Is there a difference? I don't know, I don't understand the process of a ping.

I've had pings in 40's through 50's all through the US. I'm very lucky. But just the past couple days, my ping went from 50 to 350. I play a lot of quake 3 and this just sucks. Here's a graph to my favorite server:



Tracing route to den2.games.speakeasy.net [64.81.111.136]
over a maximum of 30 ...

Remember that they are taking on tens of thousands of new customers and that you have just recently switch over. I bet it will be a couple weeks before you'll see the full advertised speed of your line. I've been with charter for a couple years. I download 928 kbps on my 768 capped line :P

Hi, I'm new to the boards, but I do know a little bit about cable modems. I've encountered a problem. I power on my cable modem and it takes 30-40 minutes to connect. The receive light flashes then goes solid, then the send light flashes, and it goes back to the receive flashing. Finally, it ...