network cards

[whack_amol]

does the type and brand of network card a person has affect their cable speed and download/upload speeds, or can an integrated or basic $10 dollar one do the same work and have the same efficiency as a $35+ one

[Sastraxi]

You'll have to check it's features. Usually you can get fullspeed if it's just a normal 10/100 RJ45 connector. Otherwise I don't know.

[JungleMan]

Cable speed, no, cable speeds can't even touch 10mbps let alone 100mbps.

Network speed, some of the Realtek things aren't quite as fast as they could be but they are acceptable. My whole network runs on those things and the black sheep in the family the 3COM 10 megabit.

Also fondly remember the $90 3COM PCMCIA NIC I had which was the only NIC I've ever had that crapped over. So much for 3COM quality, LOL.

Bottom line if it's just cable modem or even a light network just get the cheapest thing you can find.

[whack_amol]

thanks, i guess its just my cable service thats slow, cause the only thing i can download at high speed is music, videos and games and stuff go slower. Also i get low points on bandwith checkers

[JungleMan]

Yep, whine at the cable company, not the NIC, because I've hit almost 400K/sec once.

What provider are you using?

I'm on Road Runner. One of the only AOL owned products that WORKS.

[Sastraxi]

I'm at steady 300kbps

[markman]

amol,
They are doing work right now. Don't bother asking them. I was out for a solid 6 days (as i told you last night) and called them up, and they gave me some weird way to fix everything that didnt work. (try it yourself, it might work for you). Anyways, just wait through it and it will be great. When you called me, I checked right after that and it was working fine for me...

I've downloaded at 678kb/sec once (thats my record).

Also don't tell them my name, address, or any of that **** if you call them (i told you before about why)

[MidgetsBro]

My teacher found a way to uncap his cable, and he showed all my friends... they were downloading at over 1meg a second (not megabits, but megabytes!). That was fun until Adelphia caught them and replaced their modems with the ****ty ones that can't be uncapped.

[markman]

my modem is capped but the service is not

I dont think they knew what they were doing...

[MidgetsBro]

If they don't pick up on it, then everythigns good... with uncapped modems, it will go as fast as their backbone supports. Sadly for Adelphia, the 1meg a second was as fast as their backbone suppoted, and when my friends started using up their bandwidth like that, they started to wonder *** was going on, and traced it to them. One of my friends' cable just went out, and he called and they wouldn't talk to him through tech support. he would give them his name and address, and they would just say "Oh, I'm sorry, but we can't give you technical support over the phone" and just hung up. Eventually some guys came out to his house and swapped his modem out with a lousy one that barely even gets his speed he is paying for. My other friend's cable went out, so he capped it himself right away and it worked, now he's afraid to uncap it again, and when he called adelphia, they told him they would send someone out to switch modems... he got it working again, and called them and told them they didn't need to come out, but they said they still need to come and switch modems... something fishy going on there.

[whack_amol]

How does yours go so fast ross, my max has been 34kb/s.

[markman]

go here

I got 2853 / 485 (with a couple downloads going off kazaa)

sweetness

[markman]

3239 / 489
w00t

[MidgetsBro]

489 is as fast as you upload? How are you uncapping the cable? My friends that uncap all seem to get the same speed up and down. I, on the other hand, can't uncap because I have DSL

[JungleMan]

I've got a Toshiba PCX1100 cable modem on Road Runner...how should I uncap, and am I going to get busted for it

[whack_amol]

I downloaded the tweaker and now my cable speeds are awesome, thanks ross

Maxed at 364 so far

[MidgetsBro]

http://home.earthlink.net/~jmkord/ch...nfig_files.htm

Those are the config files used in our area, but they only work for Surfboard modems I believe, and only in this area. Search the web for similar config files for your area... someone's bound to have them. If you get caught, you will get in trouble, or at the least, get your cable shut off, so be careful.

[Zaei]

I think my max was 12megs/sec, but that was only because it was in cache =(.

Z.

[parksie]

Max 63.4K/second on a 512kbit line

We have a load of cheapo-mostly-unbranded Realtek-based 10/100 PCI NICs here, and they work fine...10mbit hub though -- bargain at £15

Although nearly burnt the collision light out now

[markman]

Originally posted by whack_amol
I downloaded the tweaker and now my cable speeds are awesome, thanks ross

Maxed at 364 so far

what tweaker? What did I do??

[whack_amol]

on the site you posted they have a tweaker that you could help you boost download speeds. I'm just wondering if it's legal. Also is there anyway to change my adapter settings to my network adapter, cause it keeps defaulting on my dialup adapter

[JungleMan]

Why do you have a dialup adapter installed?

[whack_amol]

No idea, i guess its cuase i had dial up first, so it defaults to that instead of the network card one for my cable, but i dont think it effects anything though, i was just curious

[markman]

Originally posted by whack_amol
on the site you posted they have a tweaker that you could help you boost download speeds. I'm just wondering if it's legal. Also is there anyway to change my adapter settings to my network adapter, cause it keeps defaulting on my dialup adapter

yeah its legal

I never got around to using that...

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by Jungle-Man
because I've hit almost 400K/sec once.

Your connection is 3.1Mb?! You sir, are a git

*narrows eyes at ISDN card*

[markman]

i hit 678....

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by chrisjk
Your connection is 3.1Mb?! You sir, are a git

*narrows eyes at ISDN card*

Well, maybe it was an incorrect reading or something, my provider says max is 2 megabit.

[parksie]

Narrow yer eyes at the people at good Universities...got 1070K/sec out of the connection at Oxford

[JoshT]

I'm on cable and I regularly get 300-400 kilobytes per second, if the server's any good.

Anyone notice that HTTP seems to be faster than Windows File Sharing over a LAN, or is it just me?

[parksie]

What protocol are you using locally?

[JoshT]

TCP/IP. However Windows 2000 runs Netbios or whatever over it.

[parksie]

That's ok, NetBIOS handles the Windows part of the networking (and is why you should block off ports 137/139 with a firewall when you go on the internet ). It shouldn't be much slower, unless there's a collision somewhere -- have you tried HTTP from the same local machine?

[whack_amol]

K, but how do i make my network card my default for my adapter

[markman]

Originally posted by Jungle-Man


Well, maybe it was an incorrect reading or something, my provider says max is 2 megabit.

I got 3.239

[JoshT]

Originally posted by parksie
That's ok, NetBIOS handles the Windows part of the networking (and is why you should block off ports 137/139 with a firewall when you go on the internet ). It shouldn't be much slower, unless there's a collision somewhere -- have you tried HTTP from the same local machine?

Actually I'd block tcp/udp 135-139 and tcp 445 for Windows... Or just not allow incoming packets with a destination port less than 1024...

I'm going to have to try it again - I forget how I set it up - I was backing up and restoring my brother's MP3 collection before / after reformatting and reinstalling the OS. Maybe because HTTP doesn't use the same security and uses a different method of caching?

[parksie]

I'm not fully aware of the internals of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol used by NetBIOS (and Samba...that's where it got the name from ) but HTTP is probably more efficient with bandwidth.