Q: they just installed on this cable shortly replced dinosaur Sour (Win95 b, K6-2 450)
network card is a Netgear FA311 and the modem is a Motorola SB4100 cable modem
when I first used, I downloaded off sites around an awful 10-15 kb/s
i bandwidthplce.com ran tests and indiccated really bad score, I can only remember that my speed was poor and only twice as fast as broadband wizard 56k
i downloaded, and it helped and I got about 40 kb/s
and I ran the test again and my results are bandwidthplace.com follows
Your as raw speed was 346584.62 bits per second.
There are three meaningful ways we can interpret this number: 346.6 kilobits per
Communications
second
How communication devices are assessed. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage
42.3 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard disk and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1024 and mega is 1,048,576.
1MB file download
24.2 seconds
The time it would take you to a 1 megabyte file download at this speed.
average 977 503
shouldnti are getting 400-500 kilobits half?
anyone know any other twaeks I should do?
im get a new system in one month, but would this work as well as it can for now: D
Re:Geez, cable service in the UK sucks. 512 down??? You all should complain. I can download in excess of 600K/s with cable in the US.
Re:ok i think it's sorted out now, after running those tweaks, i just downloaded a 27mb file off of one user on imesh at a constant 55 kb/s, so i have nothing to complain about as i've got my 'up to 10 times faster then dial up' after the second day of use, thanks blueyonder
yea andi my slow machine is annoying pages load fast but have to wait for the computer to catch up, after easter i gonna get like an xp1800 with windows xp, can't wait 
thanks for the help
Re:<< Every thing in live is relative. 512Kb/sec is great replacement for DialUp. >>
Very true. 
Where my parents live they currently cannot get any form of affordable internet access aside from a dialup account. The phone lines are pretty old and the max that they can connect at is around 28.8kbps with their 56k modem. Not all of the US is wired yet…
Sorry for assuming that you're in the US with cable…Our upstream is just as capped as yours is but the downstream here as guy mentioned can get you downloads in excess of 300KB/sec even in a pretty connected neighborhood. And any internet access is better than none when that's what you want. 
Gaidin
Re:Every thing in live is relative. 512Kb/sec is great replacement for DialUp.
I think that the ?slow: sentiment comes from us in the ?US?. A lot of Cable Internet subscribers enjoy Cable service of 2-3Mb/sec. for a mere $40 to $50 a month (that is the price of Time Warner Internet service in New York City). With such a service, you get Downloads of 280MB/sec. On other hand, if you want a Real High speed DSL service in NYC you have to pay close to $200 (a month).
Re:Heh, dont you just love the cablers in America with their "512k down is really slow for cable modem"
I live in the UK, got an ntl 512k cable. These things are normally physically capped at about 600k, and i'm getting downloads of 70k/sec
It could well be the system that's holding you back, so try it with the new system and see what happens!
guyBW
Re:i don't understand why is 512kb down bad? i may have got it mixed up. i think it's 512 for downloading things and 128 for uploading. i'm in the UK so we aren't as evolved as you guys, though i think for a high price 2mbit adsl is availible
Re:Wow where are you at that your cable modem is capped at 512kbit down? That's low for cable.
But yes as others have said 512kbps has a theoretical maximum of 64KB/s down minus overhead if you aren't doing anything else with the line so 42KB/s really isn't all that bad.
Your old computer could be holding you back a little bit depending on how much stuff is running on your system (it sounds like you've had the machine for a while). Maybe update this thread once you get the new machine and let us know if there was any different in speeds…
Re:1 Byte=8 bits.
In theory 512Kb/sec (b=bit) service, should yield a Download of 64Bb/sec (B=Byte).
In reality, it is usually 45-55 KB/sec. You can check your TCP/IP Reg. Setting, to optimize the connection:
Download DrTCP from DSLreports, and use it to adjust your settings.
Download DrTCP: http://www.dslreports.com/front/DRTCP019.exe
The following is an Example of setting optimized for Cable Internet system.
Tcp Receive – 513920
Window Scaling – Yes
Time Stamping ? No
Selective Acks ? Yes
Path MTU Discovery – Yes.
Black Hole ? NO
Max Duplicate ? 3
TTL ? 64
MaxMTU ? 1500.
Your mileage may vary.
Re:Go to www.dslreports.com (http://www.dslreports.com) and select DSLR Tools from the menu on the left, or go here directly:
www.dslreports.com/tools (http://www.dslreports.com/tools). Then I would check out the Speed Tests and Tweak Test. The
Tweak Test usually has some good tips on how to configure for optimal performance.
BTW, you have to remember that 400-500 Kilobits roughly translates to 40-50 Kilobytes (with overhead and everything, you can
figure your throughput to be 1 byte = 10 bits). So, it looks like you are doing pretty well already……
Re:i forgot to say that it is 512 up and 128 down i think
i'm also in a town where not many people would have it in my area, so my node or whatever should not be overloaded
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