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- drapelyk, on 10/12/2007, -15/+75ooooh ooooh me too! digg me down as well!
- frederoil, on 10/12/2007, -11/+56I call BS on this. Next you are gonna tell us about how we can get iPods for FREE!!
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+430, but it's not because you are behind a router, it's because this supposed registry "tweak" is *****
- Wonotch, on 10/12/2007, -10/+37I'm pretty sure TechTV was more of a Network than a Show...
But yeah, I miss that Network. G4TV can go to hell in a pink and yellow polkadotted hand basket. - tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Flagged - Inaccurate. Ridiculous claims. What next, you'll have a "memory doubler" for me? Or a hard drive speed booster? Bury!
- tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26It changes your RWIN and MTU settings, along with possibly your TTL settings. It is a valid tweak. TWEAK means "fine tuning." You might see 5%-10% improvement IF your setttings were bad before, which they might not have been.
The people claiming to get double or triple speeds are either lying or stupid - or both.
Speed tests can vary based on many things, and changing your internet settings and then testing once means nothing. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Nice SPAM url at the bottom of your post there. Very clever.
- TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25hmm 5 years ago...
wasnt dialup pretty popular back then?
maybe it just doubled the 4kB/s dialup speed to around 8kB/s.. doesnt sound like a miracle now, does it? - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21"it frees up a lot of resources and makes it appear to your comp that you have a fast Internet"
A) What are you smoking?
B) Why haven't you passed it my way yet? - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19My brain must run ad block becuase I didn't even notice it until you mentioned it.
- joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15What? You've forgotten about old MacOS ramdoubler and old MS-DOS doublespace? All these miracles *are* possible!
I think "Internet Speed" is a very technical term, so this doubling effect may not work for you unless you are a highly technical master of the intarweb. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14all this does is increase something called "tcp window size" - basically you recieve more packets per acknowledge packet that you send back, which essentially *reduces* the reliability of your connection.
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).
i won't be downloading or running this at all - BMWcrazy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Okay, it's not really meant to "double" your speeds, it only helps if your network settings are completely ***** up then this program would fix it. It doesn't magically pull bandwidth out of its ass.
- detachment2702, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Before: 5139 down 358 up
After: 2275 down 189 up
I'm dissapointed - tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Actually, to be fair, it tests to try and determine the largest RWIN (TCP Receive Window) that your connection can reasonably handle. You download larger packets before checking back with the upstream to make sure it was an accurate send. If not, you have to resend and you lose speed. But in most cases, you CAN go bigger than the XP defaults and this program will speed you up - A LITTLE BIT. As I said earlier, this is a valid TWEAK, but you are talking 5%-10% in a best case scenario, and 0% if you were already in the ballpark. No one is doubling or tripling their speeds. As another poster so eloquently put it, you can't pull bandwidth out of your butt.
- neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Hey, my internet speed quintupled from 15000 gbps to 75000 gbps. This is a miracle worker!
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The adjustments the software makes are pretty sound, but don't expect miracles. I had already spent some time optimizing my system and it still increased my speeds by about 3%. I tested multiple times and speeds are higher than any result I've ever gotten. Every little bit helps.
Incidentally you might try switching to OpenDNS servers as well. My wife actually thought I had upgraded our Internet after I switched from the crappy Comcast DNS. It won't help for sustained transfers but a good DNS can make an incredible difference for web surfing.
http://www.opendns.com/ - julielacombe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14Double is really an overstatement.. Catchy title to get digged. lol
- Poland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Meh, kinda worthless.
- EternalDarkWing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Did absolutely nothing. Marked as innacurate.
- mesostinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5XP's settings don't get reallly ***** up though so I don't see the point.
If for some dumb reason someone went in and started changing things randomly then they should be using XP TCP/IP repair and not this http://www.xp-smoker.com/freeware.html
It's a program especially made for people who screw up their computers running these types of "optimizers".
During the win9x days programs like that were useful. Now it's mostly a waste of time. People claiming their speed doubled must have severly screwed machines in the first place. - kunduZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7..anybody care to explain how it works? what it changes? ..
- Giga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@aurrea
"I'm curious as to why this is Werdrews only story submission."
There is a first time for everything... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Registry? lol, not for me
- unreal32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Mixed feelings about this.
MTU Registry Tweaks have been around for ages. 5 years? More like 8 or 9. So -1 for being old and lame.
No doubt they have some effect to some people. Some people report speed increases, others report decreases, and others no change. So +1 because it can help some people.
But the spam URL at the end of the post broke the tie. Buried as SPAM. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Inaccurate. It does NOT double your speeds unless you have an extremely shotty setup. Your max throughput is determined by your ISP, and it can only be doubled by the people working AT the ISP. Registry tweaks can only optimize your connection. Nothing more.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"maybe it just doubled the 4kB/s dialup speed to around 8kB/s.. doesnt sound like a miracle now, does it?"
If I saw a 56k modem transferring data at 8kb/s I would ***** myself (the modem might not be doing to well either). It would be a miracle to me. - tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I believe there is a chance that Win98 might benefit more than XP, but what are you running Win98 for?
- Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Did nothing for me. In fact speeds were lower, probably totally random as far as the test goes. I don't believe this tweak really does much.
- kderby2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4SPAM. It's the only post this person has made, and it's for a tweak that only works in a limited amount of cases.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I just tried this and it *WORKED*! I downloaded the entire internets through the tubes and whatever else it's made of! Amazing.
- Mazgazine1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yeah 'doubling your internet speed' is basically impossible. Yes you can change packet size, but in most cases it would make your connection incompatible with the modem or server you are in contact with and potentially make things worse..
- skanker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4My download speeds didn't really increase that much but I did see that the speeds were More consistent it that's even possible. I did 5 tests before with an average ping of 54 and had about 6800-7300kbps down each time, and after wards I did 5 more tests to the same server with an average ping of 58 and had about 7100-7400kbps down. So this isn't exactly a miracle worker. In fact I think it did nothing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How is your incompetences Microsoft's fault?
Blame your parents. - gravedigga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2THIS is the problem of digg. Stories getting digged because of what their headline / resume says. Nobody want's to RTFM before digging. Duh.
- LocDawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I tripled my internet speed by sacrificing virgins to Marduk.
- mesostinky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7You found digg.com, you figured out how to register....why are you running windows 98?
- dasil003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's not that we can't accept the truth. It's that we hate you.
- zofo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I dunno what everyone is complaining about...
I downloaded it, clicked Optimal, restarted and went to the Apple Trailers homepage (fastest sustained download I know of) and I went from a usual maximum of 520kB/sec to 720kB/sec - fixinor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+260k is blazing in Australia? Geez man.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh. The next article will talk about this awesome, 8-year-old tweak for boosting your CPU speed: the turbo button...
- felderado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amen to that
I have 10M up and down for $50 a month. Fiber to my door.
OMG DOUBLE IT PLZ! - ocntscha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I see my comment has been modded down to -6. Some people just can't accept the truth apparently. As far as why I'm running Win98SE I've got it on 4 older seldom used systems, not worth the trouble and expense to upgrade because in addition to those 4 I have a fast Linux box that runs 24x7, 2 XP desktop systems and 2 XP notebooks.
- XxDerkaxX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Actually Slowed my connection according to speedtest.net
- syco123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1THIS IS SPAM
Have 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 - rwaters71, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0The 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. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Those who are not expert in networking better if hear, this program can manipulate the MTU and the tcp windows size but let's clerify one thing, if you use a router or even a cable modem, those devices do NAT usually so any of the option which you made in XP with this program is useless because you inside on a LAN segment, and the output controlled by the router/modem. Most of them has simple control panel where you can't setup things like this, only way to hack the firmware, and that's not always possible so this TCP optimiser basically spam as I said. But I don't want to generalize. Maybe with an internel adsl or cablemodem you can get some preformance boost but don't expect too much.
- rwaters71, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0These 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.
- rwaters71, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0"...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. - jburnette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When you pay for a, say, 5mbit connection, that's what you get. No registry "tweak" is going to somehow remove the cap from your connection.
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