Internet speed trouble

[R'as al Ghul]

Broadband through Optic fiber cable, 100Mbps.

...duuuude.

[orangat]

Ah lucky dude. OFC isn't a common option for residential users in US. What did your isp tell you?

[Just A Girl]

The usual problem with Slow internet is a combination of windows.
TTl. Mtu and Rwin.
also black hole's But we will skip those.

now the basic principal is simple.

To acces a web page you need to transfer data to the host and then back to your pc.
The amount of data you can transfer at 1 time is designated by your MTU (maximum transfer unit)
now you always need to jump across a whole host of servers and sub servers to get to your destination.
the amount of hops you take is known as TTL. (time to live)
These basically dictate how many hops you can take to get one place or a nother.

Now heres how it works.

If you have a High value for your MTU.
You could drop packets along the way. Each hop you take and the larger the MTU size The more likley the connection is to drop it.

So you can lower your mtu and increase your ttl.
Giving your connection the opertunaty to make more hops. with smaller packets.
Again. the more hops you take the Greater the chance of a droped packet.

The basic idea is.
You get your MTU as high as you can.
and your TTL as low as you can.
Then you ping your desierd host. ( https://forums.totalwar.org ) for example
And see how many hops it takes how many packets droped excetera.
Then you re adjust again and again Untill you get a Low ping,
no droped packets.
and the least amount of hops were needed.

Then you repeat the whoe process witha number of your fave sites. Or game servers.
and you take the Best over all setting that worked for all of them.

Thus traveling the distance with all the data needed in the least amount of hops.
This is the ONLY way to properly optimize an internet conection.

You can do it within the registry,
But it takes Time patients and you need to know what your doing.

Another option is to get a program called.
tcpoptimizer

This thing is so simple its beond belief.
You simply tell it what connection speed you have.
hit optimize settings at the bottom,
And click ok.

If you think they suck.
You can use it to make your own custom settings and to ping servers as Described above.

and if you still think it sux.
! simple button press and your back to windows defaults.

Winodws TTL defaults Suck.
And windows MTU defaults also suck. Although Both are designed to Prety much guarantee acces to web pages.
They are also Set to be SLOW And deliberate.

Another thing to remember is.
DSL download speeds and upload speeds are Never the same.
Uploads from your pc els where will on avarage be 256Kbs.
And the 512kb's or 1mb's rating only concerns your Download speed.
Although there are plans to increase dsl's Uploads to the same speed as the downloads.


Hope this helps.

[Viking]

...duuuude.

You need to have some advantages when you live in Scandinavia, you know.