After tweaking - lower download speeds

[Kiros72]

After I did all of my tweaking (for high speed connections, web browsing, advanced tweaking, and host resolution) I noticed that the web pages seemed to load about a second faster than normal so I wanted to check my speed and it said that it was only 93 KB/s!!!! :irate: I did the test again and still got a low speed (123 KB/s). I got out my download accelerator and started downloading a large file and noticed that the max speed it was reaching was 360 KB/s. I use to get a max of about 440 KB/s :( Why's this happening? is it because the host resolution was set too high of a priority, or is it my TCPWindow or MMS or some attribute like that?

please help

[mccoffee]

take a tcpip analzyer cut and paste everything below ip information in a new reply

[Kiros72]

TCP options string = 020405b00103030201010402
MTU = 1496
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.
MSS = 1456
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1456, which equals MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 257712
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits (scale factor of 4)
Unscaled Receive Window = 64428

RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
512512 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
256256 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)
128128 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64064 (MSS x 44)
bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your RcvWindow limits you to: 10308.48 kbps (1288.56 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 4123.392 kbps (515.424 KBytes/s) @ 500ms
MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON
Time to live left = 57 hops

TTL value is ok.
Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF
Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON
IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000

** My browser is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[Kiros72]

hey, a lot has changed since 2 years ago, so should I still set my ethernet's card to 10 Mbps/Half Duplex Mode? Wouldn't that slow it? I have a 3 Mbps download capability (about double what used to be the max) so should I set it to 100/Full Duplex Mode?

btw, my ISP is charter pipline in case you were wondering: http://www.charter.com

[mccoffee]

your mtu si off try thease take another analyzer leave card in auto mode duplex

Try thease in the sg optmizer below me to download and install
select - cable
check - custom settings
network adapter selection -
check modify all adapters
maxmtu 1500
TTL - 64
TCP Receive Window
MTU Discovery - yes
Black Hole Detect - no
Selective Acks - yes
Max Dup ACKs - 2
TCP 1323 windows scailing is checked
Other Settings tab:
Max Connections per Server - 10
Max Connections per 1.0 Server - 20
Lan Browsing Speedup - optimized
Then select "Apply Changes" and reboot to take effect.

1. Under your LAN connection - properties - general tab, uninstall all the protocols there that you do not need.

2. Open IE and select tools - internet options - connections -
LAN settings, make sure NOTHING there is checked.

3. ALWAYS connect your modem via ethernet (NIC) and make sure you have the latest drivers for your NIC from the manufacturer. Set your NIC duplex mode to 10mb half duplex for Cable, for DSL it is ISP dependent unless you are using a router, if so then set it to 100mb full duplex for both Cable & DSL (the instructions are in my Help & Tips link). If you are using a router make sure you have the latest firmware.

4. Clear your temporary internet files.

5. Power cycle your modem, unplug it for atleast 15 seconds.

6. Download and update then do a scan with SpyBot 1.2 http://beam.to/spybotsd & Ad Aware 6.0 http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download to remove any spyware then install and update SpywareBlaster to stay spyware FREE. YOU MUST USE BOTH AD AWARE & SPYBOT TO ENSURE YOU ARE SPYWARE FREE SINCE ONE FINDS WHAT THE OTHER MISSES.

7. Make sure you do the faster web page tweak in Read1st link.

8. If you have Zone Alarm as a firewall uninstall it then visit Zonelabs.com for further instructions on removing it's left over junk.

9. Install Outpost Firewall http://www.agnitum.com\ (http://www.agnitum.com) or Sygate Firewall http://www.sygate.com/ , both have FREE and Pro versions and are heads above ZA.

10. Scan for viruses with your antivirus app, if you do not have one get one IMMEDIATELY, AVG 6.0 http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php is an excellent FREE AV app.

11. Make sure you have ALL of the latest Windows Updates