Cable Modem and a Power Outage

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 4:58 pm

i just experienced a poweroutage for a about 10 mins, when I got my power back my cable modem online light went red for a minute(not normal) then all the lights kept flashing green (flashing green for my modem is normal) and when just the online light turned green i tried downloading files to see if the power outage made my modem slower or made it not work, but instead im downloading at 500k average without any registry tweaks, is my modem going fast because nobody is on the internet or is it possible that the poweroutage some how made my modem faster.

Please post your thoughts.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:05 pm

It's possible you needed to power cycle your modem and that is what the power outage did.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:19 pm

MaxDupAcks=3

Try 2 for the heck of it

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:20 pm

could you put that in Lamins Terms please.

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:22 pm

"It's possible you needed to power cycle your modem and that is what the power outage did."

Could someone please put this in Lamins Terms.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:23 pm

Try TcpMaxDupAcks=2

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:25 pm

If your cable modem is on 24/7 you need to power cycle it (remove power from it for atleast 15 seconds) atleast once a week for it to resync itself with your ISP.

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:26 pm

aight, whats a good site that i can test my download speed (i mean a download area not a speed test site)

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:27 pm

See in help thread below

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:38 pm

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:43 pm

Tcp1323Opts=3

You don't need timestamps turned on, try setting this to 1, missed it 1st time

make7upyoursman · Post by **make7upyoursman** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 5:48 pm

2.9 megabits per second

Run the test again Discuss in the forum
Details

Your raw speed was 2881488.37 bits per second which is the same as:

Communications

2.9 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

351.7 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

2.9 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

@ http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/index.html

(WITH A CLEARED CACHE)