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make7upyoursman
07-31-02, 04:58 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
07-31-02, 05:05 PM
It's possible you needed to power cycle your modem and that is what the power outage did.:)
Lobo
07-31-02, 05:19 PM
MaxDupAcks=3


Try 2 for the heck of it:)
make7upyoursman
07-31-02, 05:20 PM
could you put that in Lamins Terms please.
make7upyoursman
07-31-02, 05:22 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
07-31-02, 05:23 PM
Try TcpMaxDupAcks=2 :)
mnosteele52
07-31-02, 05:25 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
07-31-02, 05:26 PM
aight, whats a good site that i can test my download speed (i mean a download area not a speed test site)
Lobo
07-31-02, 05:27 PM
See in help thread below:)
make7upyoursman
07-31-02, 05:38 PM
thnx
Lobo
07-31-02, 05:43 PM
Tcp1323Opts=3

You don't need timestamps turned on, try setting this to 1, missed it 1st time:)
make7upyoursman
07-31-02, 05:48 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)