speedguide.net — Many of you might know about this, but if you're like me you've reformatted your computer many times and have forgotten about this amazing little patch. Scroll down under "SG Registry Patches and older tools" and download for your OS, install, restart, poof! This has nearly DOUBLED my speedtest.net results! http://linksdirectorysubmit.com
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syco123Sep 21, 2006
THIS IS SPAMHave a look at the 'who dugg or blogged this' link at the top of these comments.These guys have created hundreds of accounts just to promote their site. At least half (and likely much many more) people who dugg this did so for the first or second time on this article. I stopped counting at 200 with 0 or 1 diggs
krono6Sep 21, 2006
MeBigGuy.. I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels like burying this person, just for the nickname which a Neanderthal would use.
cham44Sep 21, 2006
I can't believe all the people on digg who haven't heard of this site before.
fixinorSep 21, 2006
60k is blazing in Australia? Geez man.
sandeepeecsSep 21, 2006
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jinzSep 27, 2006
Internet In New Zealand very bad $40 for 2Mb/s with a 2GB Cap for the month sucks woosh wireless speed of 300KB/s in Bittorrent
rwaters71Mar 17, 2009
These tweaks are not BS. They work well, and they work behind a router as well. Probably the most important setting they increase is the TCP Receive Window. That is a buffer for unacknowledged packets, basically your computer has to acknowledge every packet it receives, and the other side will only send as many packets as can fit in this buffer before receiving acknowledgements. What happens with broadband is, this default buffer of only ~16KB gets filled up in a matter of milliseconds, and with the higher latency associated with internet transfers what ends up happening is servers pause and wait for acknowledgements before sending more data... Vista and Windows 7 are much better optimized for broadband than Windows XP by default - Microsoft has acknowledged those issues as well, and improved their OSes for broadband.
rwaters71Mar 17, 2009
Don't call BS unless you've researched/tried it.Those tweaks work, they simply tune TCP/IP parameters for broadband internet connections, where higher speed + higher latency require larger buffers for the line to be utilized.True, it will not double your connection speed, all it does is let you use the bandwidth that your ISP provides better, removing some limitations/shortfalls of your own OS.
rwaters71Mar 17, 2009
The problem is that the XP default settings are for dialup connections, not nessesarily good for broadband.What these tweaks do is to increase the TCP/IP buffers allowing the OS to cope better with higher bandwidth+latency. It actually improves those settings to better match Linux/Vista/Windows 7.There are no magic numbers that work for all situations and all internet connections. It may not double your speed. But it will at least take out Windows as the bottleneck of the equation, it's usually very noticeable if you're on a 5+ Mbps connection.
rwaters71Mar 17, 2009
"...the downside to this is if you lose a packet somewhere you end up having to download MORE data in the long run (as you need to repeat all of the packets in the tcp window that you dropped)."Yes, if you're transfering more packets and they get lost in transit, you will have to retransmit them. But what you're saying is that we should slow down so we don't lose more.Increasing the TCP Window does not "create" packet loss out of its butt (as others have so elequently put it). In the presense of packet loss, a larger TCP Window will cause more packets to get loss in transmission... A smaller TCP Window would not have allowed those packets to start transmitting at all !I'll take the larger buffer any day.