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ok guys so after stumbling upon these great forums and reading some of the advertised speeds by ISPS and what people were actually getting i realized, a. what my advert. speeds from time warner cable with RR hi-speed WERE, (5mbit down 384 up) and b. i wasnt getting no more than 2mbit on a good day well i was pissed!

after more than a week off haggling i get them out here to completely redo all wiring from the tap to the house, and changed out my modem and various splitters as well as upping my plan to the 8mbit down 512 up...i was able to get close to 5mbit from just about every speedtest excluding roadrunners where i consitently hit 8mbit.

today i finally got a chance to play with vanburens cablenut settings. When i originally d/l the program i picked what i thought would be a good point to start in version 9 i used the cable & dsl 512 setting..i noticed a small increase and never had a chance to play with again..

today i wiped the CS settings out of the registry and did a speed test from the original reg settings.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 3227 Kbps about 3.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 394 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/05/28 - 11:55am
Bottom Line:: 56X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.6 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 7.594 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 68.47 % of your hosts average (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-A7RNOZGBQ
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

feeling a little mythed i looked thru more forums and so forth then just for S#!ts picked this file coheem 8000/1000 in the mss1460 directory in v3

here are those results:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 7793 Kbps about 7.8 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 951 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/05/28 - 12:15pm
Bottom Line:: 136X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.08 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 12.782 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 65.35 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-2YH6RW7M3
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

 


so after thinking maybe dumb luck i procced to test on every speedtest site i know of and the results are consistent.

any thoughts on other settings i should try..i dont know alot about what each setting what it changes means but i figured this was the closest to my rated cap from so i tried.....thanks for all the helpful posts and sorry about the long read!

subsequently that was the only time i got that speed...i waited about 30 minutes and now they have fallen to

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 4482 Kbps about 4.5 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 547 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/05/28 - 12:55pm
Bottom Line:: 78X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.87 sec
Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 10.937 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 95.1 % of your hosts average (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-HCVO1SXUY
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)



will try your settings and post changes! thanks for all the help

Van has been busy but that does not mean he wont be by to help you. Welcome. 

ok guys this is a horribly old thread but once again i got such great help and have run into another issue.

ive moved once again and am on Comcast 8mbit down 784up plan, heres my question

i know Comcast has their "speedboost" which will boost your upstream and downstream for the first 10-15 megs of whatever you are downloading

ive gotten as high as 30mbit on the express test and up to 2mbit upstream as well. but then it will eventually come back down to around 10mbit or so for the downstream and the upstream will always sit at right below 1mbit.

are there better cablenut settings that i should be using?..i believe ive been using the ar0nic1.css that coknuck posted for me and have also tried my original backup.

btw tonite on testmy.net the highest i can acheive is 4.5mbit down i dunno if that is due to crazy traffic tonite or what but ive always tested the highest here...speakeasy and speedtest both hit 20mbit down but thats during the Comcast "speedboost" surge.

any suggestions?!


btw a few other things to note and inquire on.

ive recently got another roomie who is an avid gamer and we were running into issues with our linksys router, after flashing to dd-wrt and playing around with QoS we have gotten better results but were still toying with it as were still not 100%...any suggestions with QoS? we have generally everything priority over utorrent (http set to premium, both of our torrent ports set to bulk)

i think weve got that under control at this point but any suggestions would be great!

also,
we have added a hdtv box and was experiencing issues while recording and watching HD.. after putting both the modem and hdtv box on its own line via a 3way splitter straight from the tap with the 3rd open port we went to a 2 way for the other two rooms..so far the hdtv problem is fixed but not sure if its affected the modem.
cant exactly call Comcast as i dont own the box so all wiring and rewiring and checking signals is being done by me as we do not wish a tech at the house. could this be affecting anything, is anyone familiar with qam and rf levels\frequencies and  may be able to chime in. after rewiring and switching around splitters the HD box is now working properly but im wondering if ive affected my modem signal at all 


you guys are great here and im super appreciative of all you've done and im sure ill get more help! i eagerly await it!

ar0nic, Comcast is going to surge in the beginning that what the boost is suppose to do. If your getting that good of speed with that file I wouldn't change it! As far as your other problems I won't be of much help. I don't use a router and I still have basic Analog Cable TV. Sometimes it does get a little slow in the peak hours for testing. you might of hit it at a bad time or Comcast routed you through a bad relay server. Someone will probably come along and help with your other issues. Have a great day. 

I'm not sure what files I gave you. I've been using this one since I I had a 3/348 conection. I'm a ferm beleiver in if it ain't broke don't try to fix it. Post the file I gave you please.


::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 10456 Kbps about 10.5 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1276 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/04/22 - 11:20am
Bottom Line:: 182X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.8 sec
Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 9.627 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 83.86 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-G18L9M7VQ
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080208 Mandriva/2.0.0.13-1mdv2008.1 (2008.1) Firefox/2.0.0.13


Edit: Just saw your file above and its the same one I use.

That test makes me jealous! Thats real good for the test being 25meg.

ar0nic, Thanks for the input!