@Home Servers

[Tenken077]

i'm on a richmond server in bc, for the people who live here, they should know that the richmond servers are hella slow. i remember asking the technician that was over if i could change servers. he said that i could change it manually.. through the network menu. by manually entering an ip, but that just tells me vaguely how i would do this, does anyone know how EXACTLY i can do this? which settings do i have to change and what do i change it to? the technician said that he would try it out if he were me, but at the same time said that he wasn't even supposed to tell me how to do this so.. can anyone finish this for me?

[Tenken077]

no one wants to help =(

[therealcableguy]

I don't follow you.What kind of server is this that you are trying to change?The only server I can think of that would be causing a speed issue for you would be the proxy servers and they are located in your market.You can bypass those by going to the tools menu in IE then,internet options,connections,lan settings,and take the check out of proxy server.If its not the proxies,give us a little more info.

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[DDELFIERRO]

I think what you're trying to do is get on a static IP. I've heard of people doing this on the forum although there's always warnings about your IP not being recognized all of a sudden and you left w/out a connection. I believe that if you ask tech support to walk you through this then there should be very few problems.

[Tenken077]

thing is, they would've told me how to do it when i asked them to if they were ever gonna tell me, so.. does anyone know how to change my server?

for closer detail, i mean the server that u get stuck on when you first sign up with. the heading before *wave.home.com

[Lobo]

Sir, nothing is going to speed you up unless you install a speed patch, @home setting are all default. If you have all that @home software on your computer it won't matter if you uncheck the proxy server box as @home software will automattically check it back every time you reboot. I have @home, none of their software, and no box checked in Network properties, I believe you are going to have to leave the default settings to get any speed.

[Tenken077]

no, i don't mean the proxy server, i mean the server you are connected to, for example, @home has many servers around the area.. the more populated the server, the slower you go due to the lack of bandwidth, what i'm trying to do is assign my own ip and mask or something so that i can switch from my current server to a different server.. ie: richmond to vancouver

[DDELFIERRO]

Hmmm. So what you're trying to do is get yourself assigned to a less populated, hence faster server. Only 2 ways that I can think of...
1. Pay for @Home's "@Work"(?) service. I think this is about $100-$500 more than their regular residential cable broadband service.
2. Physically move to another area to get on their server instead of the one you're on. Then, you may still have to do what I'd like to call "thinning of the herd". Physically, ahem... "remove" the competing @Home subscribers via creative usage of force.
In essence, I just don't see it happening for you. @Home is going to oversell their service no matter what. If you end up on an already overloaded server, you can only hope that another server is connected on eventually. I'm sure that @Home would be willing to give you your very own server to use if you want to pay them the $10-50K for it and it's upkeep/maintainance.
I'm fairly sure that the tech meant disabling the proxy server/setting up a static IP address and NOT reassigning you to an actual different server/router/whatever that is physically assigned to your address back at their comm center.
Do you honestly believe that if all us Speedguide posters possessed the power to automatically assign ourselves to the fastest and least populated server via a few easy registry settings on our home PC's we would bother with freaking speed patches? Hell, if you haven't heard of it being done already here... it ain't being done!!!
BTW, as for @Home knowing or not that the Richmond servers are "hella slow", damn right they know it! But they're happy to still sell bandwidth space to as many people as they can get to sign up. It works for AOL so why would you think @Home would be any different? Heck, it's part of the business model now! They don't guarantee that the speed will be anything but X speed faster than a 56K modem (X being anything ranging from much, much faster to incrementally faster).
You do realize that anybody on a fast server isn't exactly going to help you get onto one too just in case you screw up/slow down their connections, right?

[therealcableguy]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tenken077:
no, i don't mean the proxy server, i mean the server you are connected to, for example, @home has many servers around the area.. the more populated the server, the slower you go due to the lack of bandwidth, what i'm trying to do is assign my own ip and mask or something so that i can switch from my current server to a different server.. ie: richmond to vancouver</font>

@Home does not have servers around the area.Where you are getting confused is that there are devices in the field called fiber optic nodes.There are many nodes in your area.Each node can be designed to feed however many customers you want depending on how much money a cable company has to spend on glass(fiber).More money to spend = more nodes and less customers per node.A node by the way serves to convert light to radio frequency on the downstream to your house and RF to light on the upstream from your house.There is no way to change the node that you are fed from any more than you could call the power company and tell them you wanted power from a different transformer.If your node is overpopulated they need to split it by adding a node.Only other option is to move to one that has less modem customers.


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[Exzor]

therealcableguy knows his stuff....call up athome and get yourself moved to tier 2 and ask them how many people are on your node (good luck if you can get them to do this) do a tracert to many different site and see what numbers are always the same this is the bottleneck that slows you down because everyone around you moves the same direction to actually get out on the web your proxy server is local and only stores the most frequently requested sites no game servers are on a proxy