Dial-Up Connection Tweaks

[Bold_Fortune]

Dial-Up Connection Tweaks. These sure helped me. Hope they can help some of you.

This one I got off the X-teq program:

Allow for Speed up to 921600bps for 56k modem. This one is really good. You can copy it into Notepad and make it a reg file for yourself.

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REGEDIT4

; This file was automatically generated by Xteq X-Setup (http://www.xteq.com)

;

; HIGHLY IMPORTANT: Before using this file be sure to read the documentation for

; "Record Mode". Not doing so might lead to unexpected results

; when using this file!

;

; The WARNINGS ISSUED below informs you if any warnings were reported. If so, the

; plug-in(s) has invoked functions that can not be recorded to this file. In this

; case, this REG file might not work as expected.

;

; WARNINGS ISSUED: No - this REG file should work without problems

;

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\0000]

"OldProperties"=hex:80,01,00,00,FF,00,00,00,FF,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,0F,00,00,00,77,07,00,00,00,10,0E,00,00,FA,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\0000]

"Properties"=hex:80,01,00,00,ff,00,00,00,ff,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,0f,00,00,00,77,07,00,00,00,10,0E,00,00,FA,00,00

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This one also came from the X-teq program:

Increase Speeds in COM Ports.reg

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REGEDIT4

; This file was automatically generated by Xteq X-Setup (http://www.xteq.com)

;

; HIGHLY IMPORTANT: Before using this file be sure to read the documentation for

; "Record Mode". Not doing so might lead to unexpected results

; when using this file!

;

; The WARNINGS ISSUED below informs you if any warnings were reported. If so, the

; plug-in(s) has invoked functions that can not be recorded to this file. In this

; case, this REG file might not work as expected.

;

; WARNINGS ISSUED: No - this REG file should work without problems

;

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM1:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM2:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM3:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM4:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM5:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM6:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM7:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM8:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"PortsCOM9:"="921600,n,8,1,p"

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Below is an entire post once made by mnosteele at TweakXP. You can never go wrong listening to this guy. He knows his stuff.

One of the most frustrating things to have with a computer is a slow internet connection and 56K is about as slow as it gets these days. I feel the pain that 56K users have and hope that by following this thread they can experience a faster more reliable internet connection. There are a few things that one must understand prior to tweaking their 56K connections. The first is that it is actually a 53.3K connection since that is the speed that the FCC limits you to, on top of that most dialup users actually connect in the 40,000 ? 50,000K range, which is excellent by dialup standards. Being that you actually connect in the 40-50K range you need to understand that your maximum throughput is only going to be around 6 kilobytes per second.

MOST OF THESE TWEAKS WILL NOT WORK WITH AOHELL, AOHELL USERS READ HERE.

? First and most important is for you to download the latest drivers for your modem from the manufacturer?s website.

? Make sure you have a ?clean? phone line, no static on your line. If you have static you will have a very low connect speed and no tweak will fix that.

? You need to download CableNut from here, it is the most comprehensive internet connection tweaking app available.

Setting your TCP/IP and AFD registry parameters for optimum performance.

Use the following settings in CableNut:

DefaultReceiveWindow = 8192

DefaultSendWindow = 4096

DisableAddressSharing = 1

InitialLargeBufferCount = 20

InitialMediumBufferCount = 48

InitialSmallBufferCount = 64

LargeBufferSize = 40960

MaxFastTransmit = 6400

MediumBufferSize = 15040

PriorityBoost = 0

SmallBufferSize = 1280

TransmitWorker = 32

FastSendDatagramThreshold = 1024

EnableFastRouteLookup = 1

EnablePMTUDiscovery = 1

IgnorePushBitOnReceives = 0

GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize = 8760

MaxFreeTcbs = 4000

MaxHashTableSize = 8192

MaxNormLookupMemory = 1500000

SackOpts = 1

SynAttackProtect = 1

Tcp1323Opts = 0

TcpLogLevel = 1

MaxDupAcks = 3

TcpMaxHalfOpen = 100

TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried = 80

TcpRecvSegmentSize = 1460

TcpSendSegmentSize = 1460

TcpTimedWaitDelay = 30

TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer = 0

TcpWindowSize = 8760

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 8

MaxConnectionsPerServer = 4

DefaultTTL = 128

DisableUserTOSSetting = 0

TcpMaxDataRetransmissions = 6

DefaultTOSValue = 90

Other important tweaks to improve your connection.

Open your control panel and select the phone and modem properties icon ? select the modems tab, under the modems tab highlight your modem and select properties

? General tab:

Set your speaker volume to your preference

Maximum port speed ? 115,200

? Advanced tab:

? Extra Settings ? this is where you put in initialization strings, they can help stabilize your connection. Try the following websites for init strings for your modem.

Spy.net

56K.com

West.net

ModemHelp.org

? Advanced port settings ? check ?use FIFO buffers? then slide both bars to the far right.

? Change default preferences:

Port Speed - 115,200

Data Protocol - Standard EC

Compression - enabled

Flow Control ? hardware

? Advanced:

Data bits ? 8

Parity ? None

Stop Bits - 1

Modulation ? Standard

Now select the Network and Dialup Connections and right click on your ISP?s icon and select properties.

? General tab:

Highlight your modem and select ?configure?, set the maximum speed to 921,600 and under ?hardware features? all the boxes are checked.

? Networking tab:

Uninstall all the protocols you don?t need. If this is a stand alone pc then all you need is Internet Protocol TCP/IP.

Select the settings button and make sure all the boxes are checked.

Setting your COM port speed properly:

Right click on My Computer and select properties ? hardware ? device manager ? select your COM port ? port settings tab ? bits per second 128000 (you may need to set this a few times to make it stick).

Other important registry tweaks:

? Speeding up network browsing.

Open regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Delete the key: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

? Faster webpage tweak by giving priority to DNS lookup.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]

"DnsPriority"=dword:00000001

"HostsPriority"=dword:00000001

"LocalPriority"=dword:00000001

"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000001

? Forward buffer memory tweak, this controls how much RAM TCP/IP uses for storing packet data in the router packet queue.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]

"ForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024a00

"NumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024a

"MaxForwardBufferMemory"=dword:00024a00

"MaxNumForwardPackets"=dword:0000024a

? By default Windows 2K & XP cache everything in the DNS cache service, both correct and faulty DNS lookups. To increase performance by eliminating the caching of faulty DNS lookups, copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

"NegativeCacheTime"=dword:00000000

"NetFailureCacheTime"=dword:00000000

"NegativeSOACacheTime"=dword:00000000

Internet Explorer important settings:

Open Internet Explorer and select Tools - Internet Options - under the General tab in the Temporary Internet files section select the Settings button.

Select "Every visit to the page" and set the amount of disk space to use: to no more than 80MB. Now select the Connections tab and select LAN Settings make sure EVERYTHING there is unchecked and select OK.

Select the Privacy tab and choose Advanced check the box "Override automatic cookie handling" and for First-party Cookies - Accept, Third-party Cookies - Block and check "Always allow session cookies. Now NO MORE SPYWARE COOKIES.

Open Internet Options and under temp internet files - settings select ? every visit to page.

If you have a dial up connection I HIGHLY recommend using a download manager, it will help maximize your download speed, resume downloads if you are disconnected and you can even schedule downloads for the middle of the night (it will automatically dial up and download the desired file and hang up when done) when you aren't using your pc.

[JorgeIvan]

This really works for my modem??

[Bold_Fortune]

jorgeivan2k3, this is the only case in which the first tweak I gave would not work for your modem:

I should have put this up a long with the first tweak:

There are a couple of warnings issued with these tweaks:

If using internal modems located in the Communication Networking Riser (CNR) slot, do NOT use these settings! Such cards rely on a very tricky method to work, which is incompatible with these settings.and stuff.

If you have a UART-compatible 56k modem, then you can increase this speed up to a maximum of 921600bps (900Kbps). The plug-in won't change the speed automatically, it will simply allow you to set it to a faster level using the Modem control panel applet.

However, all other advice I laid out is good to go.

[JorgeIvan]

I got a Best Data modem

[Bold_Fortune]

"If using internal modems located in the Communication Networking Riser (CNR) slot, do NOT use these settings! Such cards rely on a very tricky method to work, which is incompatible with these settings.and stuff."

Is it an internal modem located in the Communication Networking Risor?

Look here: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/CNR.htm

And, here: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,...i527374,00.html

[giga Veteran]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\0000]

"OldProperties"=hex:80,01,00,00,FF,00,00,00,FF,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,0F,00,00,00,77,07,00,00,00,10,0E,00,00,FA,00,00

I dont have any called Class? Winxp Pro.

[Bold_Fortune]

sadatkarim, are you saying you don't have that particular registry key? The reg file will make it for you.

[Bold_Fortune]

Something else I've found helps me with my Dial-Up Connection: RamDisk.

A RAMDisk acts as a virtual drive on your system. It allows you to create directories, copy files to and from it, etc.... The data however is not written onto a hard disk, but remains purely stored into a particular part of your RAM memory. Hard disks have mechanical parts that allow to seek to a particular position on the magnetic storage media and to read/write data. This make them relative lazy. A RAMDisk can read and write the same data to upon 30-60 times faster than a hard disk ! However, the data stored in your RAM is "volatile" : it disappears when you cut off the power to the RAM memory, with other words, if you turn off your system. This applies to the content of the RAMDisk too !

Here's a great and simply way to set it up once you have it installed, angain thanks to mnosteele:

First download AR RAM Disk and unzip, extract and install it. It will then be in your Control Panel, so open your Control Panel and click on the new RAM Disk icon and check the box Enable RAM Disk.

General tab

drive letter: whatever you like (it defaults to Z:)

Start up type: Automatic

Operating mode: RAM Disk mode

Geometry tab

Disk size: whatever you want to use, depending on the amount of physical RAM you have you can go up to 511MB, personally I use 64MB (which should be more than adequate for your temporary internet files.

Bytes per Sector: 512*

Sectors per Track: 32*

Tracks per Cylinder: 2*

File System

Volume Name: RAMDISK*

Volume ID: 7FFFFFFF*

Manual override - use at your own risk, I saw no need to use it.

* these are all defaults, I saw no need to change them

Now select OK and reboot to take effect. Once you reboot right click on your IE desktop icon and select properties - General tab - Settings... - Check for newer versions of stored pages: Automatically, Temporary Internet files folder - Move Folder... - direct it to your new RAM Disk and make the Amount of disk space to use: 1MB smaller than you set it to (it should do this automatically) then select OK and it will prompt you to log-off, do so and log back on and your are all done. Now enjoy your web pages loading much faster and less hard drive activity.

Some people choose to download files to their RAM Disk, this will make downloads a bit faster and smoother but remember the size of the file you are downloading cannot exceed the size of your RAM Disk. Also you must note that when you reboot all your temporary internet files will be cleared since they are in RAM. This is a great tweak for 56K users, it makes web surfing MUCH more enjoyable.

[CoolCatBad]

CableNut is good, but most of the settings listed in your quoted example are not available in it.

[Bold_Fortune]

  Swampster said:

CableNut is good, but most of the settings listed in your quoted example are not available in it.

Swampster, you can manually make the settings. Save it after. And then you'll always have them.

[isus]

about the ramdisk thing... what if i combine a hack that moves the pagefile and that? would i be able to put the complete pagefile in ram?

[Bold_Fortune]

  isus said:

about the ramdisk thing... what if i combine a hack that moves the pagefile and that? would i be able to put the complete pagefile in ram?

You want to put the pagefile into ram? You lost me there. But here's something you might enjoy reading, if that's what interests you. According to this, I guess it's possible, but I don't know anything about it.

http://www.functional-it.com/ramdisk.htm

I prefer the more conventional approach to the pagefile.

Here:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

[Ry Spy]

  Swampster said:

CableNut is good, but most of the settings listed in your quoted example are not available in it.

Maybe your resolution is low. Try raising it to 800 x 600. :D