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29-Nov-2005, 10:23 PM #1
Talking Faster Broadband
My system specs: Win98se, 850mhz proc, 384 SDRAM, 7200rpm Seagate
I live in the midwest and am using Time warner Cable. I have my MTU set to 1500 and have tried all of these registry settings: speedguide

My page load time is still poor and it could use some significant adjustments.
I'm curious to know what others are doing to get their pages to load quickly.
Any input is much appreciated
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30-Nov-2005, 06:17 AM #2
I have used tweaks from there two on my 98SE with comcast cable.
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
I used the...
sguide_tweak_9x.zip
sg_webtweak_9x.zip
236926usa8.exe

Never did what is on the page you linked too.

Also got Cablenut and used one of there setting.
http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?page=software

See these links. I got VanBuren settings to use on cablenut.
http://www.testmy.net/topic-1013
http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0


I got my download speed up some but that is on test and downloading on some sites.
Web pages still are slow to load and I never seen any change.
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30-Nov-2005, 06:49 AM #3
Hi PatrickC

Interesting how close our setups are

I live near Dayton, Ohio, use RoadRunner and am currently posting from a win98se P3 800 box.
I haven't done any tweaks as the article suggested, but have done the speedup tweaks for Firefox that helped and run with Javascript turned off globally, setting it selectively only for trusted sites. That also seems to help speed up page loading a little.

While this link is for XP, I have tried it also with positive results, not breathtaking, but it did eliminate a slight lag in initial communication to the web site.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1722545,00.asp

Going from dialup to cable was an enormous step up in speed for me, so I haven't done much to speed it up.

I'll do the tweaks you posted and see if it helps me.


I also have been fooling around with other OS's lately.
95, 2k and several linux distros, several from Boot CDs and Mandrake 10.1.
Only the Boot CDs seem slow as they run from the CD...but page load times seem similar for the installed OS's when compared on the same comp......But then again, I never actually ran tests for connectivity. In each case, I used Firefox as a browser.

Another thing to think about, are you sharing bandwidth with a big neighborhood? Do your speeds vary during the day as more people might be comming online into the evenings?
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30-Nov-2005, 06:52 AM #4
I know it is overloaded out here where I am.
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30-Nov-2005, 07:14 AM #5
Hey PatrickC

I went into my registry, but none of the tweaks in that list involved changing values, they involved writing in, all new 'value names'
I'm a bit leary about making that many changes, so I think I'll opt out of the tweaks.
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30-Nov-2005, 07:21 AM #6
I seem to have it pretty good here, hewee.
Our cable service was upgraded to 'fiber optics' a while back and speeds seem consistant.
The dialup connection, however was another matter, old underground lines that seem to short out every hard rain
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Our cable service was upgraded to 'fiber optics' too but only parts of it. They need to do more of the cable. I think they just the main cables to there office and some servers or whatever you call it that they have around town so that leaves a lot of old cable lines.
Next town over they have 'fiber optics' every where and it goes all the way into your home. Will all the new homes because it cost less. But they I bet are doing the older homes there two and sometime will be in are town.

http://www.surewest.com/

So waiting for them to get over here and I will change over. Comcrap better get things fixed and working good or lots of people will change.
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30-Nov-2005, 08:08 AM #8
Mine is all fiber optics and fast.............
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Good to here that SIR****TMG
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01-Dec-2005, 10:38 PM #10
PatrickC:

Are you making use of Cablenut 4.08? If not, download and install it, then we'll go from there.

Go here to download and install the VTCP.386 4.10.2223 update.

Go here to download and install the NDIS.VXD 4.10.2224 update.

Click Start - Run, type in REGEDIT, then click OK. Click the + in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
System
CurrentControlSet
Services
VxD
MSTCP

then click directly on

ServiceProvider

Change the hexi-decimal values of these entries as follows:

DnsPriority - 03 00 00 00
HostsPriority - 02 00 00 00
LocalPriority - 01 00 00 00
NetbtPriority - 04 00 00 00

Click the + in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Explorer
RemoteComputer
NameSpace

then delete all the sub-folders in

Namespace

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Time-Warner Roadrunner has upload/download speeds of 384/5000 in my area. Are those the same advertised speeds in your area?

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01-Dec-2005, 10:41 PM #11
I have 3 meg service .. The cable guy was out here checkin the connection cause of my (CWLMST) and he said they now have 5 meg. I didn't even ask the price.
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01-Dec-2005, 10:53 PM #12
They increased their download speed from 3000 to 5000 several months ago in my area, but I wasn't sure if it was nationwide yet. I'm still paying $44.95 a month for Internet service.

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01-Dec-2005, 11:14 PM #13
So for 98SE would that VTCP.386 4.10.2223 be this file?
Download 236926usa8.exe now
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...236926usa8.exe

And NDIS.VXD 4.10.2224 would it be the...
Download English (US) now file
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../243199us8.exe
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02-Dec-2005, 07:00 AM #14
Correct.
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02-Dec-2005, 07:07 AM #15
Thanks I will get those down loaded then flavalle.

Here is what I have now in my registery.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP\ServiceProvi der]
"LocalPriority"=hex:f3,01,00,00
"HostsPriority"=hex:f4,01,00,00
"DnsPriority"=hex:d0,07,00,00
"NetbtPriority"=hex:d1,07,00,00
"Class"=hex:08,00,00,00
"ProviderPath"="%windir%\\system\\wsock32.dll"


---------------------------------------------------

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Remot eComputer\NameSpace]

Folder was empty and no sub folders
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