6 Mbps = how many KBps?

[TheBigCarp321]

Comcast Advertises 6MBdwn/384kbps up
What I get is about 7144 dwn/ 362kbps up...
Man I hope they up their upload speed soon, I can't take it this slow. I also hate comcast. Id prefer dsl since it was way faster at 3mb dwn. Also had waaay faster upload speed.

Oh I guess its safe to say I have never downloaded anything over 800kbps. Still quick, but not as fast as my 3mb dsl. Then again it was ... DEDICATED! (for those of you that missed that refernce, the D is dsl stands for dedicated. Thank you for tuning in.)

[CowboyHacker]

I thought the D stood for Digital. Oh well.

I have Charter 3.0Mbps cable. I live in new, higher income apartments and there are wireless networks everywhere. Almost everyone here has cable or DSL. My cable averages around 300KB/s. I have seen it around 900KB/s at some times; and the other day I was really surprised! I was downloading at 4500KB/s. I downloaded a 24MB file in about 5-7 seconds! (My source was Microsoft, though)

Below are my Speed Test results (testmy.net). I used the Optimize program...
____---before---____
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 3057 Kbps about 3.06 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 373 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ (Server 1)Test Time:: 2006/06/06 - 9:58pm
Bottom Line:: 53X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.75 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 8.016 seconds to complete
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 3.45 % faster than the average for host (charter.com)
Validation Link:: http://www.testmy.net/stats/id-MFR98H4JD

____---after---_____
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 3028 Kbps about 3.03 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 370 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ (Server 1)Test Time:: 2006/06/06 - 10:14pm
Bottom Line:: 53X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.77 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 8.093 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis: Looks Great : 2.47 % faster than the average for host (charter.com)
Validation Link:: http://www.testmy.net/stats/id-GL7TI869V
User Agent::Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 ][


(())__++UP++__(())
before=30KB/s
after=
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 248 Kbps about 0.25 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 30 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ (Server 2)Test Time:: 2006/06/07 - 12:19am
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 34.13 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 98.80512 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 91.18 % of your hosts average (charter.com)
Validation Link:: http://www.testmy.net/stats/id-9V3NAE0KB
User Agent::Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 ][

My upload seems pretty consistent and is very slow...
I run a few servers and with an upload rate of 30KB/s, I can see why they seem kind of sluggish (with decent hardware).

Is there any way to get more upload speed?

[drjekel_mrhyde]

go to testmy.net(like the guy above did ) it will tell you and with cable its a up and down thing DSL is pretty much the same all the time and cheaper 6m down 768 up 30 bucks a month ATT

[wheelie007]

Is it possible to go back to default settings after changing them with TCP Optimizer?

cheers

[stroyal]

Is it possible to go back to default settings after changing them with TCP Optimizer?

cheers

Yes , it makes a file in the same folder as the program is in. It has restore windows defaults or backup copy.

[cunokyle]

I would wager your TCP/IP configuration is far from optimal, especially if you are using the default settings. Use TCP Optimizer.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

If you do not want to get into the low-level settings, click optimal settings, move the slider to your specified connection rate, then apply the automatically calculated changes. Reboot, and hopefully you will have a much faster connection.

Wow! Thanks for that! I went from 1200 Kbps Down and 375 Kbps up to 2573/468...on a 1.5Mbps subscription! Nice to be actually getting more than what I am paying for!

[njolakoski]

Comcast Advertises 6MBdwn/384kbps up
What I get is about 7144 dwn/ 362kbps up...
Man I hope they up their upload speed soon, I can't take it this slow. I also hate comcast. Id prefer dsl since it was way faster at 3mb dwn. Also had waaay faster upload speed.

Oh I guess its safe to say I have never downloaded anything over 800kbps. Still quick, but not as fast as my 3mb dsl. Then again it was ... DEDICATED! (for those of you that missed that refernce, the D is dsl stands for dedicated. Thank you for tuning in.)

D doesnt not mean Dedicated in DSL

[cableuser]

It means Digital Subscriber Line. But I am pretty sure BigCarp was just joking around there.

[TheBigCarp321]

Yeah i know, i just call it dedicated because of my experience, sorry to make some misunderstand...

[CowboyHacker]

(())__++UP++__(())
before=30KB/s
after=
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 248 Kbps about 0.25 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 30 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ (Server 2)Test Time:: 2006/06/07 - 12:19am
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 34.13 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 98.80512 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 91.18 % of your hosts average (charter.com)
Validation Link:: http://www.testmy.net/stats/id-9V3NAE0KB
User Agent::Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 ][

My upload seems pretty consistent and is very slow...
I run a few servers and with an upload rate of 30KB/s, I can see why they seem kind of sluggish (with decent hardware).

Is there any way to get more upload speed?

[wheelie007]

Yes , it makes a file in the same folder as the program is in. It has restore windows defaults or backup copy.

many thanks.

cheers

[TheBigCarp321]

Oh man that speedtest tool tcpoptimizer is awesome. I went from 1118kbps to 1608 LOL!!

[J1mmy]

Theres many factors that determine your speeds.

Ive got a 2Mb line, but i dont ever get anything higher than 700Kbs.

[brandybioch]

Before I took the test I was getting 2Mps download speed with speakeasy. After I downloaded the program ran it and did all the registry changes I rebooted and ran the test again. I got 1600Mps for a download speed. So for me anyway it looks to be the ISP that is slow.

TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402
MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.
MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which equals MSS.
Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 256960
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits (scale factor of 4)
Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 64240

RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4) <-- current value
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64240 (MSS x 44)
bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your TCP Window limits you to: 10278.4 kbps (1284.8 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your TCP Window limits you to: 4111.36 kbps (513.92 KBytes/s) @ 500ms
MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON
Time to live left = 51 hops
TTL value is ok.
Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF
Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON
IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00100000 (32)
Precedence (priority) = 001 (priority)
Delay = 0 (normal delay)
Throughput = 0 (normal throughput)
Reliability = 0 (normal reliability)
Cost = 0 (normal cost)
Check bit = 0 (correct, 8th checking bit must be zero)

DiffServ (RFC 2474) = CS1 001000 (8) - class 1 (RFC 2474). Similar forwarding behavior to the ToS Precedence field.

[Taxmancometh]

Those are network settings in the registry. SpeedGuide.net :: TCP Optimizer / Downloads