How to find out bandwith cap for download and/or uploading?

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 6:51 pm

maybe this is a dumb question, but i was wondering if there was any way to tell what my provider has me capped at.
ive tried tons of different settings (mostly for RWIN) and my upload never exceeds about 100k/sec (thats terrible)
how do i increase upload speed, without losing too much download speed?

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 6:53 pm

Give your provider a call

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:08 pm

theres no way to tell by doing a test or anything?

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:09 pm

with @home i should be getting more than 800kb/sec download and 100kb/second upload right?
and my ping on Counter-Strike should not be over 200
i have AMD-800MHZ 192MB RAM Windows ME

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:13 pm

Do they have a home page you can go to? They usually advertise speeds there.

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:18 pm

ok ill check...no it doesnt advertise it on the site, it just says up to 100 times faster than dial up services.

what can i do to balance out my uploading/downloading speeds?
right now my RWIN is set at 1833760
my download speed is decent but my uploading sucks bad
i want it to be even for gaming purposes

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:26 pm

Just hold on a sec and some real smart guy will be along to help you. I'm just the one that answers the door.

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:28 pm

hehe ok...ive been waiting around all day for some really smart guy to reply but so far nothing has come up...

xbit · Post by **xbit** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:32 pm

no speed test will tell you your caps. @home says up to 100 times faster than dial up, but i have 107 times faster than a 56k on dslcheck.speakeasy.net. Your caps will vary from other people.

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:34 pm

alright.....so are you a really smart guy?
can you tell me how to increase my upload speed a bit?
right now im getting only about 100k/sec

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:39 pm

your upload speed is fine. no ISP's give people a lot of speed as far as uploading. but if you get you download speed up some more you will get more upload speed too.

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:42 pm

i thought i remember reading somewhere that the higher the download speed, the lower the upload, and vice versa.

my RWIN is set at 1833760
is that too high?
im mostly concerned with getting a better ping in CS

xbit · Post by **xbit** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:50 pm

I've heard of a set of reg files called tweakup. There is a .reg file for low pings for cable modems. You can get it here just scroll to the bottem and click on download site 1

TheCableGuy · Post by **TheCableGuy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 7:52 pm

TheCableGuy is coming soon with tricks for all...

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 8:29 pm

Take the TCP/IP Analyser and post your results here first of all. Your RWIN is to high too. Try this one 513920. Lobo and EvilAjax have a long list of diff RWIN's you can try.

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:03 pm

k i tweaked a little bit since last post...and by the way it was Ajax who suggested the RWIN setting of 1833760

TCP options string = 020405b40103030301010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 513920
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 3 bits
Unscaled Receive Window = 64240
RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64240 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product:
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 20556.8 kbps (2569.6 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 8222.72 kbps (1027.84 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 16 hops
TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000

gRoUnD_zEr0 · Post by **gRoUnD_zEr0** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:12 pm

How is your browsing speed, your download speed and your ping in CS? You should have better download speeds because of your lowerd RWIN...As I said in another one of your posts, your CS ping wont really be effected by tweaking...

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:20 pm

ya i guess my download speed is a bit better, but i want decent upload speed too, and it pretty much sucks.
my download varies greatly: anywhere from 800kb/s to 2500kb/s
upload: 100kb/s to 600kb/s

look at this program, it claims it can make your ping better for gaming.... does it look safe? or is it not worth trusting?

http://www.tweakfiles.com/networking/mspeed.html

gRoUnD_zEr0 · Post by **gRoUnD_zEr0** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:24 pm

Umm...sorry to tell you, but @Home caps it's uploads at 128kbps...It looks like your Upload isn't capped right now, you're verry lucky..I can only get 14-30k/sec uploads to other cable/dsl people...really pathetic. And on your download speeds are you saying k Bytes/second? Cause if so...those are godly speeds

. I max out at around 400kB/sec on downloads..Let me try that ping program, if you try it..back up your registry FIRST...I'm the ginea pig once again

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:28 pm

heh ok....those results are just off speed tests theyre often unaccurate

anyways...let me know if that ping thing works

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:32 pm

don't bother with programs...you should learn and try to put in values u'rself..that way you know exactly what got changed and exactly what to remove later if there's a problem.

try these ones as well 522680 or 534176.

Also try putting u'r TTL down to 32.

There isn't really anything you can do to increase u'r upload speed or your ping times. RWIN would be the only thing that could affect your ping

gRoUnD_zEr0 · Post by **gRoUnD_zEr0** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:47 pm

That program didn't do anything...It lowered my RWIN to 46400, and increased my ping from 40 average to 50 average...Don't think that thing really works...Anyways, try a RWIN of 521950 it works best for me w/CS and I have @home and winME too..

Edit: OHH BTW, When I was testing it in CS I awped my team-mate and didn't know Friendly Fire was on...oops

operationivy · Post by **operationivy** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:51 pm

alright ill try it, ill do anything to get back to a good ping

are there any other settings that might affect ping in some way?

gRoUnD_zEr0 · Post by **gRoUnD_zEr0** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 9:56 pm

Mmm...You're now out of my league...We shall wait for any of the Royal Tweaking Gurus to respond

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 10:44 pm

ok, what exactly are u getting for a ping anyways?

gRoUnD_zEr0 · Post by **gRoUnD_zEr0** » Fri Jun 22, 2001 11:00 pm

He says it's around 150-300ms which is REALLY crappy for cable...I average about 45ms pings...ALOT of things could be problems on why he gets such bad pings...The servers you play might really suck or have sucky upload speeds or something w/your cable...I wouldn't really know.