Setting's you can try

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 6:57 am

This is more for XP than anything else as that is what I use, but you all may learn alittle.First I must say I'm sorry to those who know all this or most of it, but this is for the new people mostly who don't know so don't bite me, these are my opinions and may or may not work for everyone, no rebutals please or I may have
to jump.
In the beginning God created man/gulls and computers, hehe
This is about Cablenut's program, you all must remember that all our connections are different so what works for me may not you, so change what you want, if you want to try what I use then try it all, BufferMultiplier too, 1 setting you do not change can make the difference in fast or slow, I realize it's alot of work, but don't guess, do all of it or none of it.
First when you install Windows there are a few
things I do, turn off system restore first, it's neat to restore but it will slow you down more than anything, my old computer I had 640 Megs of RAM, thought that was enough to run system restore, weep, weep, I was wrong, my new computer I thought I would beat it, got 768 DDR RAM, wrong again, so you ask how to restore. I use Norton Ghost 2003, it makes exact image of
drive or partition so if you make a boo-boo it take's about 5 minutes to put the image back on, and no, it's not free but well worth it, you must have burner or CD-R or CD-RW, you can
check it out : http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
There are free ones out there, I have not tried them, but the most important thing is you must make them bootable or you are just going to have alot of files that won't boot to Windows.
9x users do not have to worry about this as backing up registry will restore your system to previous state, not in XP.
Turn off automattic updates, resourses-RAM, yes it's nice but it uses your RAM, I heard along time ago that Dannjr at Cablenuts, very smart man had 4 slots to put RAM, he had 512 Megs of
RAM in each slot, hint, hint, so with 2048 Megs of RAM you could run anything and not worry about it slowing you down, speaking of Dannjr it was his ideal I believe to in W2K/XP use your CAPS to determine Default Recieve Window and Default Send Window which works:
To determine Default Receive Window, take your CAPS, Divide download CAP by 8, round up to next number if not whole then multiply by 1024. A example is my download CAP is 3500. 3500
divided by 8 is 437.5 kilobytes, (round up to 438) and multiply 438 x 1024 = 448512. 448512 would be my DefaultReceiveWindow,
Do the same for DefaultSendWindow use upload
CAP, mine is 384, divided by 8 is 48, multiply that by 1024= 49152, that is my Default Send Window.

In IE, go to Tools, internet options, connection tab at top, LAN settings at bottom, nothing should be checked in this box, NOTHING, No auto detect, no proxy, no automatic
configuration script, NOTHING, REBOOT

You will notice that in Cablenut's adjuster for W2K and XP there are 38 boxes or enties you can make, some are not in your registry by default, if you go to top of adjuster, under options,
click show paths=yes, now when you click on box on adjuster it tells you where in registry than item is located, if you see the letters AFD, it is not in your registry unless you type
something in box. So you hear default values are used if you leave box blank, this is true for items in registry. I will show you copy of one of my ccs files, I got the highest download of a 22.5 Meg file of 410KB's so it's pretty quick for me, hope it is for you too, Duzmor this should work for you, Norm, do buffer sizes
look like you seen them before, I am using TCP Window Size of 64240 so Cable and DSL users can use if MTU is 1500, I am not a patch maker, I just filled in what I thought I needed to, you
can add if you like, change, whatever:

http://www.sphosting.com/lobo/ADJ.jpg
You fill in first 2 boxes as explained above.

System Edit, type sysedit in run box, close out of all boxes except last one, I am on partition E, you may be on C, I have 2 entries at bottom, one gives NIC more RAM, my NIC is on Irq 20, use yours, if it is a single digit like 3, 5, 7, 9 put a 0 in front of it so it looks like 03, 05 and so on

http://www.sphosting.com/lobo/sysedit.jpg
LocalLoadHigh - This setting tells the operating system to load its local drivers into upper memory by default as opposed to trying to squeeze them into conventional memory. Even though you'd think this wouldn't matter anymore, DOS still does play a role in how fast the operating system and leaving it whatever
resources it might need is important. To enable this tweak, you should insert the line LocalLoadHigh=1 , try LocalLoadHigh=0 too

Type regedit in run box, navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl
I have this in mine:

http://www.sphosting.com/lobo/REG.jpg

One last thing to show you, if you already have
BufferMultiplier in your registry change it to 3 -hexadecimal, all or nothing, if you don't have it add to this
key,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSetServices\AFD\Parameters under edit in registry, DWORD value BufferMultiplier, then right click on word and select modify, make
look like this:

http://www.sphosting.com/lobo/BM.jpg

I use Cacheman RAM Booster, some don't, select
Network applications, if you have little RAM select unlode DLL's, read read me file
http://www.outertech.com/downloads.php? ... 13ac20e9c2 , you want zip dist

I do not use online speedtests, not even to see
if tweak works, they vary to much for me, put DSLR's number in as Tcp Window Size=22900, should get good on online test, then try real download test: ftp://ftp1.optonline.net/pub/test64

http://www.neotechcc.org/forum/online-speed-tests.htm

I am not arguing about any of this, it may be
different but works for me.

Remember if you want other programs that puts
icon next to clock in taskbar, get more RAM

http://www.siesystems.com/windows_socke ... gistry.htm

http://www.ncat.co.uk/Net_Lib/microsoft/tcp-ip_reg.htm

If you cannot see images well, go to IE, tools at top. internet options, advanced tab at top, down to, put check mark in enable automattic image resizing

Vic Mackey · Post by **Vic Mackey** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 5:48 pm

hey lobo i cant open that file. is it supposed to be opened? for me, i downloaded it in 4minutes 38secs at 235kbps.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 6:20 pm

Open what file, why, if you are talking about 64 Meg file, no you don't open, run Net Stat Live while downloding, just half of the file, see help thread, dude

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 6:51 pm

on PriorityControl you have not your NIC

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 7:26 pm

Real time clock is in priority control
NIC is in sysedit

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 7:27 pm

Just at 6:20 PM, Primus timus

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 2:41 am

Real time clock is in priority control NIC is in sysedit
so resigned with PriorityControl for irq20 - your irqNIC

BTW better keep sysedit as little as posible
as standard startup
without both: LoadTop & NIC buffors

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:51 am

What are you talking about, is it faster, give it up dude, lol

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 3:01 pm

it mean that you are WINER :2cool:

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 5:31 pm

I have no ideal what you are talking about

My computer has 23 Irqs, 20 is the NIC

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 1:41 am

simple

add also NIC to PriotytyControl - yours irq20
than surch optimal setting for you
start from: no incription and IRQ20Priority=3 is equal

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:57 am

If you look here I don't see that as being a registry entry, not saying it won't work though, try it and see

http://www.ncat.co.uk/Net_Lib/microsoft/tcp-ip_reg.htm

neo86 · Post by **neo86** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:40 am

Why do you have windows 98 tweaks for windows xp?

Any tweaking done to the system.ini in windows xp has no effect.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:43 am

To you maybe

neo86 · Post by **neo86** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:46 am

*cough* placebo *cough*

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:48 am

Well, works on mine, if not on yours, sorry, take care of that cold, you don't have to use if you don't want too

neo86 · Post by **neo86** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:50 am

I'll humour your ignorance by not responding anymore.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:51 am

OK, but you can look at above speedtest and see if it works or not

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:30 pm

there are only experiments
I hope that no one will be killled for above ...hehehehe

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 3:59 pm

He's right Lobo, 2K & XP ignore this tweak, it's one of those that came from 98 and worked but doesn't carry into 2K & XP.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 4:04 pm

Works on mine, see above, got 410KB's with it, and before you wrote and said use LocalLoadHigh=0, but it does not matter, if it does not work for you, don't use it

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 4:06 pm

Something to note about this tweak...... it was derived from the tweak of assigning RAM to a com port in Windows 98, then it was assumed that you could assign RAM to a specific Irq - it has never been 100% proven to work as it did for the com port, in 98 it's worth a try but for 2K & XP don't bother.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 4:56 pm

Hey Yang, said it works on mine, hello

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:00 pm

Say what you will, last week you posted the same speed test results without any tweaks.... go figure. I didn't post this to prove you wrong, I posted it because it's true..... but as usual you want to argue a moot point.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:05 pm

Show me where it says ignore, your no Doc to me

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:16 pm

this good lobo?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:22 pm

From http://www.infoworld.com

To tweak or not to tweak

In my June 26 column (see "Improve the speed of Web pages, video, and other Net transfers in Windows 2000 and 9x"), I passed along a suggestion to improve throughput on network interface cards under Windows 95 and 98. The tweak adds a line to your System.ini file. The line supposedly sets aside 4MB of RAM for a buffer to speed network transfers, including Internet access via a LAN.

But I've received opinions from readers that this doesn't work. For example, David Reed writes that "adding cache sounds good, but is reported to be Internet folklore."

I got this tip from Speedguide.net,a Web site published by U.S. Interconn, a consulting firm on Microsoft TechNet's recommended list.

When I asked about my readers' concerns, U.S. Interconn Vice President Philip Filipov told me the company has received more than 100 e-mail messages stating that the trick helps and more than 100 stating that it doesn't make a difference. He says he'd remove the tip from Speedguide.net if testing debunks it.

Microsoft spokeswoman Pami Katcho checked and reports, "All involved have confirmed: This is a hoax."

Still, I've received several messages from readers who the trick helped. Jim Jackson wrote that his PC would always crash when transferring files larger than 500KB across his home network. "After adding the buffer statements to the System.ini file," Jackson says, "this machine no longer freezes."

I must admit I'm stumped. But even its critics agree that it does no harm. Perhaps it just has a very strong placebo effect!

DAVE · Post by **DAVE** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:29 pm

Lobo how about if i'm sharing internet with 2 nics
what sould i do to give them more RAM
my 2 nics are on IRQ05 and IRQ10

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:08 pm

Reminds me of something I heard once.

"Don't put too much ice in your drinks. When it melts the glass will overflow"

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:41 am

but has rooms for improovement

eg
90%CAPS (in this case 394KBps) targets were achieved
but 100% goal (respectively 437KBps) ???

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:30 am

Quote:
From http://www.infoworld.com

To tweak or not to tweak

In my June 26 column (see "Improve the speed of Web pages, video, and other Net transfers in Windows 2000 and 9x"), I passed along a suggestion to improve throughput on network interface cards under Windows 95 and 98. The tweak adds a line to your System.ini file. The line supposedly sets aside 4MB of RAM for a buffer to speed network transfers, including Internet access via a LAN.

But I've received opinions from readers that this doesn't work. For example, David Reed writes that "adding cache sounds good, but is reported to be Internet folklore."

I got this tip from Speedguide.net,a Web site published by U.S. Interconn, a consulting firm on Microsoft TechNet's recommended list.

When I asked about my readers' concerns, U.S. Interconn Vice President Philip Filipov told me the company has received more than 100 e-mail messages stating that the trick helps and more than 100 stating that it doesn't make a difference. He says he'd remove the tip from Speedguide.net if testing debunks it.

Microsoft spokeswoman Pami Katcho checked and reports, "All involved have confirmed: This is a hoax."

Still, I've received several messages from readers who the trick helped. Jim Jackson wrote that his PC would always crash when transferring files larger than 500KB across his home network. "After adding the buffer statements to the System.ini file," Jackson says, "this machine no longer freezes."

I must admit I'm stumped. But even its critics agree that it does no harm. Perhaps it just has a very strong placebo effect!

What does this have to do with the price of tea, It's on the front page, if it does not work simply take it out, hey slowbo, quit being the net police like your buddy, this is the tweaking forum where we try different things, if it's not in your book for dummies, who cares, if it speeds me up it can be a 486 tweak

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:45 am

Dave,

From front page:

In systems with multiple NICs, you might want to add the setting for both IRQs. Also, you could reserve RAM for other IRQs if you wish, just use common sense and don't forget it reduces the amount of RAM available for running applications

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 1:14 pm

Last weeks test Dr Tweak

Quote:
Say what you will, last week you posted the same speed test results without any tweaks.... go figure. I didn't post this to prove you wrong, I posted it because it's true..... but as usual you want to argue a moot point

Look real close and see if it's the same speed

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 6:18 pm

You really try and make yourself look stupid....... last week 400.17Kbytes/sec..... this week 400.98Kbytes/sec....hmm .81Kbytes/sec...... yep there sure is a difference.

DAVE · Post by **DAVE** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 6:27 pm

just use common sense and don't forget it reduces the amount of RAM available for running applications

Lobo my comp just have 256MB DDR ram so if it redudes the amount of RAM available for running applications i think i'll not try it

mnosteele52
you guy don't need to argue about this tweak work or not
if we not try how can we know it true or not
trying a new thing is not bad
if it don't work just take it out (1 min)

lobo
for the speed test i think the results are vary and depend on alot of reason
tweak can help us but not so much

when i first joint this forum and didn't apply any tweak in my computer
my cable internet's so slow, even slower than the 56K modem
sometime it took minutes to open webpage(speed test slower than 56K modem)
but in another time it run like a horse (speed test: 1.7MB/s faster than T1)
the speed test i try on alot of different site coz at that time i couldn't beleive of the speed but all the site i tested gave me the result from 1.4-1.7MB/s (my cap limit is 1.5MB/192K) when i try to download a file from download.com without any help of download management program= 300K up

but now after applied all the tweak in speedguide
download speed always around 50-180K/s( the speed is vary on sites and times)
i didnot test the upload speed but in the past i always got around 40K/s
now is alittle bit slower but i don't care much about the upload speed