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drednox   02-28-2003 at 05:40:40 AM

hi

i wanted to know whats the best way to hookup a cable modem to a PC to squeeze every last little bite of performance or stability out of it.

is it to run it directly via USB 2, or network card or some other way ? if network card, which ones specifically and why ? what is the difference ?

i am currently runing a brand new RCA digital / broadband cable modem as the old 3Com sharkfin thing took a big crapola on me, thats hooked up via 3 com fast ethernet. anything specific i could do to improve this setup ?

BTW the cable modem has to stay as is due to the fact its required by the cable company.


thanks.

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Teq   02-28-2003 at 06:20:55 AM
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If you have the RCA cable modem with the online/offline switch on the front you can do a fair bit of tweaking on your connection.

First, get into your network card properties, take it off AutoDetect for the speed and set it to 100mips half duplex. Max out your transmit and receive buffers while you are at it. In your TCPIP properties turn off Netbios support, and set it to not register you with DNS.

Then, go to <A HREF="http://www.inboost.com/speed-tweaks/cable-modem-tweaks.html" target="_new">http://www.inboost.com/speed-tweaks/cable-modem-tweaks.html</A> and do the tweaks they suggest... RWIN==32768 and TTL==64 should work very well.


I have mine set up like that on a D-Link 530tsx card and I get consistent 320k per second downloads in both explorer and FTP.




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drednox   02-28-2003 at 06:47:34 AM
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hmmmm i dont seem to have a AutoDetect option anywhere in card properties, looked at both device menager and the network properties.

BTW runing Win XP if OS matters.

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Teq   02-28-2003 at 05:07:07 PM
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Hmmm... that's odd. The only way you wouldn't have it is if your NIC is not a 10/100 card, but fixed at 10mips.

In win2k or XP you should find those settings under the advanced tab on the card's property sheet in Device Manager.

The modem defaults to 10mips so what you are looking to do is set the NIC explicitly to 100mips half duplex forcing the modem to play along. Perhaps your card has a different method of doing that than most... but unless it's a fixed speed card, those setting should be there.

The other tweaks I gave you should help in any case.



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Crashman   03-01-2003 at 06:59:50 AM
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It would be much faster to use the Network card than the USB 2.0 connection. Why? I believe the cable modem is a USB 1.1 device. And USB1.1 is sloooooooooooooooooooow.

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Teq   03-01-2003 at 10:00:36 AM
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Yep... the RCA cable modem is USB 1.1... and the speed hit is quite noticeable.



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