{"id":347,"date":"1999-11-03T12:00:37","date_gmt":"1999-11-03T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-02-03T23:10:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T07:10:39","slug":"dslcable-modem-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"DSL\/Cable Modem Bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you're not sure whether you're getting the full bandwidth you're paying for, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/speedtest\"><strong>dslreports.com speedtest<\/strong><\/a>.This site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home1.gte.net\/awiner\/\">http:\/\/home1.gte.net\/awiner\/<\/a><\/strong>  has good information about Windows 95\/98\/NT\/2000 issues with high-speed internet connections.  It also has good links to other resources.<\/p>\n<h4> My DSL bandwidth experience<\/h4>\n<p>When I first moved from dial-up to DSL I had some odd performance problems.  Content from my ISP's own servers (ftp, pop3, mail) was high speed, but content from internet sites was consistently still at dial-up speeds.  After no significant  progress with tech support, I checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;group=comp.dcom.xdsl\">comp.dcom.xdsl newsgroup<\/a> and found my problem &#8212; I'd used a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjs.u-net.com\/mtuspeed.htm\">MTUSpeed<\/a> to tweak some TCP\/IP settings to maximize my modem dial-up.  Those old settings were screwing up my DSL session.  I reset to Win95 defaults, and presto, now I'm getting the full bandwidth.If you're on DSL and you ever messed with things like <em>Max MTU size<\/em>  or <em>TCP receive window<\/em>, or you've used dial-up optimizing programs (like MTUSpeed), you should undo your changes to get back to the default windows settings.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you're still on dial-up or know anyone who is, I do recommend MTUSpeed to get 25% better performance with your current modem..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you're not sure whether you're getting the full bandwidth you're paying for, try dslreports.com speedtest.This site http:\/\/home1.gte.net\/awiner\/ has good information about Windows 95\/98\/NT\/2000 issues with high-speed internet connections. It also has good links to other resources. My DSL bandwidth experience When I first moved <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=347\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}