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Two computers, one cable modem, two way different speeds
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me he was getting less
than 200Kbps download speeds with his Adelphia cable modem. It was right after the weekend of storms and I first thought perhaps they had something to do with it although I had heard of modems getting disconnected but not simply slowed down. I was unable to ping his machine or his gateway (timed out) so I called Adelphia tech support and they were unable to contact him either and decided he had a problem. The next day I went to George's house and took my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) with me. We spent a good deal of time on the phone with Adelphia at various levels but noone could come up with a solution. I finally decided to hook his modem (Toshiba PCX 2200) with his ethernet cable to my laptop and voila, I obtained speeds about 1.4Mbps, right in line with expectations. Tests were done with www.toast.net, a site recommended by Adelphia. In the right window of that page there is a link "Performance Test" (small type, look closely for it) which takes you to a page asking for ISP, connection type, and host web server. I entered the ISP as Adelphia, the connection as cable modem, and left the server as the free Toast net. On the left side of the page are a number of tests and I chose "All of the above". With those parameters specified I clicked the button "Run Tests" and sat back and waited. My machine consistently gave speeds of about 1.5Mpbs while George's machine (Dell Dimension 8100) continues to give anywhere from a couple of hundred Kbps down to 4Kbps. The highest he's seen is about 400Kbps. I removed all application programs and processes/services that I could but that had no effect. I also ran a complete virus scan and an Ad-Aware scan looking for troublesome programs. In addition, I ran it in Safe Mode with Network connections. Nothing helps. Any body have any suggestions? Is it hardware? |
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Two computers, one cable modem, two way different speeds
There are a lot of reasons why you'd get different speeds. One obvious
reason might be that one computer is faster or better equipped.... faster hard drive, more memory, faster processor. But that still shouldn't account for that much of a dramatic difference in throughput. Here's what I'd recommend. From the slow machine, go to http://www.speedguide.net. On their BROADBAND menu, go to their Broadband Tools, and check out their SG TCP/IP Analyzer. There they will check out your network settings and make recommendations. They also have a phenominal tool that you can download, called the SG TCP/IP optimizer (it's free), which you can use to tune up your settings with a couple clicks of the mouse instead of digging through the registry. Or, if you prefer, they do have all the gorey details explained at speedguide.net. Cheers! Mike Pearl "Dan Bernitt" wrote in message ... A couple of weeks ago a friend told me he was getting less than 200Kbps download speeds with his Adelphia cable modem. It was right after the weekend of storms and I first thought perhaps they had something to do with it although I had heard of modems getting disconnected but not simply slowed down. I was unable to ping his machine or his gateway (timed out) so I called Adelphia tech support and they were unable to contact him either and decided he had a problem. The next day I went to George's house and took my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) with me. We spent a good deal of time on the phone with Adelphia at various levels but noone could come up with a solution. I finally decided to hook his modem (Toshiba PCX 2200) with his ethernet cable to my laptop and voila, I obtained speeds about 1.4Mbps, right in line with expectations. Tests were done with www.toast.net, a site recommended by Adelphia. In the right window of that page there is a link "Performance Test" (small type, look closely for it) which takes you to a page asking for ISP, connection type, and host web server. I entered the ISP as Adelphia, the connection as cable modem, and left the server as the free Toast net. On the left side of the page are a number of tests and I chose "All of the above". With those parameters specified I clicked the button "Run Tests" and sat back and waited. My machine consistently gave speeds of about 1.5Mpbs while George's machine (Dell Dimension 8100) continues to give anywhere from a couple of hundred Kbps down to 4Kbps. The highest he's seen is about 400Kbps. I removed all application programs and processes/services that I could but that had no effect. I also ran a complete virus scan and an Ad-Aware scan looking for troublesome programs. In addition, I ran it in Safe Mode with Network connections. Nothing helps. Any body have any suggestions? Is it hardware? |
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I had the smae exact problem before. I know the exact problem, and i have Adelphia also and the same exact desktop apparently. Go to www.testmy.net, then click on Download Test and SmarTest. If your internet is still slow, then click on start, run, then type in CMD
It will open up the console. Then type in: ipconfig/release wait a couple of seconds for something to appear below it. Then type in: ipconfig/renew It will give you a new ip address. Then unplug the power source from your modem or router and plug it back in. It should fix your internet troubles. If it is still slow, keep doing this over 2 to 3 times MAX. If it is still slow go into control panel, printers and other hardware, on the side click on system, then click on hardware, then device manager. Then look for Network Adapters. Click on the plus to the left of it. You may see two devices, maybe one. If you see only one, go ahead and uninstall it, then (Only do this if you have Windows XP) it will redetect the hardware and reinstall it. If you see two, click on the one that says something like Broadcom, if not, just click on the one that DOES NOT have numbers before the name of it. Then it will redetect it, etc. When done redo the ipconfig/release and the ipconfig/renew and unplug modem and replug it in and it should be fine. Quote:
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