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« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2006, 10:54:22 PM »

FYI.
I have improved my scores considerably.

Check out these scores (...with verizon DSL 1.5/384).....

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 13171 Kbps about 13.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1608 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Sat Jan 14 2006 23:42:06 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 235X faster than 56K 1MB download in 0.64 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 179.16 % faster than the average for host (verizon.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EPT4XG9OZ

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 394 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 48 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server1)
Test Time:: Sat Jan 14 2006 23:52:19 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 21.33 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 62.24 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-TF92NZMBD

I am at 13.2 Mbps/0.4Mbps now because of a freeware program I used.  Reputable at that....


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« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2006, 10:20:28 AM »

If you did not uncap your modem I don't think you could have increased your download speeds by 3x . Maybe clean out your cache and try your test again although upload test seems to work fine. What program did you use? Maybe those results are real Very Happy
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« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2006, 09:11:13 PM »

I actually used Google Web Accelerator.  But it is caching stuff...
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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2006, 09:20:01 PM »

Yes thats how it works

NOTE: If you have download accelerators such as the Google Web Accelerator please turn them OFF before testing. -  For the Google Web Accelerator click on the speedometer icon in your browser or taskbar and click "Stop Google Web Accelerator" - clicking "Don't accelerate this website" may still 'cause results to be incorrect.  Also note that results from tests taken with accelerators DO NOT represent faster than normal speeds but are simply 100% false cached results. Accelerators DO NOT speed up download speed, only browsing speed!  In my opinion these programs do more harm than good and I personally would not allow it on my own system.  -Damon
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« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2006, 09:48:47 PM »

...may sound like a stupid question, but how does it do more harm than good?  Is it harming my system in any way? 
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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2006, 10:05:36 PM »

Not necessarily harm, other than using resources....but it's giving you results that are inaccurate and misleading.  I used to have my browser all done up with extensions/toolbars, but I found that things ran better just barebones.  You just gotta be sure to do regular maintenance on your browser (cache/cookes) and scan for spyware thoroughly.
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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2006, 10:11:54 PM »

Thanks.  I appreciate that.  I may be overdoing it with spyware paranoia so I actually clean my computer daily with Spybot, Adaware, MS Antispyware, and I also have 2 anti virus programs AVG and Norton Corporate edition.
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2006, 07:17:17 AM »

...may sound like a stupid question, but how does it do more harm than good?  Is it harming my system in any way? 

Its not harming your pc in any way but Google can see what sites you are visiting because their servers cache the webpages you visit or they send you the cached pages when you try to open them .. I tried it and uninstalled it.. Like FallowEarth is saying, if you have broadband or even dial-up, its better to go without the accelerator ;)
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« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2006, 02:11:37 PM »

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also CABLE NUT IS A PEICE OF GARBAGE mark my words..... www.broadbandreports.com/tweaks is a very good tweaker i used that and it upped my speed 20 Kbps

ok buddy but i had messed up internet for a LOONG time until verizon found out they were messing my internet up i had 70Kbps and increased it to 90 now i have 180Kbps


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programs dosent mess up internet, the ppl that using em wrong does.. 

cablenut is not garbage just beqause you didnt know how to use it

I agree that its harder to use then most other tweakprograms, but its also the most advanced and offer options to tweak upload aswell 

VanBuren

Just my 2 cents here:  I used CableNut sometime back for all 3 of my systems, and it gave me a slight improvement on all of them, using some of VanBuren's custom settings.  Something changed somewhere recently, I'm guessing something Verizon related since all 3 of my systems were affected.  Speeds got horrible.  After a month, I'm not fixed totally, but found that lowering my RWIN lower than either CableNut, TweakTester, or even the Windows default, has helped, at least to nearby test sites.  High RWIN's give me good results only to distant sites.  The point is, every setup is different.  That I have to set my RWIN so low is something that none of these tweaking programs probably never consider because it really doesn't make sense.  None of them have a preconfigured setting with an RWIN of 13068, which is what I need right now.  Why?  Because 99% of the time it would probably cripple a broadband connection.  Anyone with any real experience playing around with computers should know that there are always those situations that leave even the experts scratching their heads trying to come up with an answer that really isn't there.  Some things are just the way they are, just because that's the way they are.

Anyway, to say the program is junk, is wrong.  It does what it is supposed to do: it allows you to easily change various registry settings that relate to broadband connections.  It never crashes, and never screws up your computer.  The values you enter screw up your computer.  If those values don't help, you have every option to remove them, and find and enter ones that do.
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