You've tweaked your Firefox but have you ...

[Tweaker]

Ok, so you've tweaked your Firefox and many of you have seen some good results. But have you tweaked your Internet settings? Windows only loads the standard default setting durning installation. These of course can be tweaked to also improve speed dramatically.

First test your Internet speed by going to one of the following sites:

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

After testing your speed download Dr. TCP which will allow you to easily tweak your Interneting settings. After adjusting your seeting you have to REBOOT and then go back to either of the above site and you'll see an improvement in speed.

Dr. TCP: http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

I use Road Runner and my speed increaced a whopping 1.1 megs.

Here are the setting I used to acheive the increase:

Tcp Receive Window = 37500 Path MTU Discovery = Yes

Window Scaling = Yes Black Hole Detection = No

Time Stamping = No Max. Duplicate ACKs = 3

Selective Acks = Yes TTL = 64

Alternative TCP Receive Window = 256960

474280

Enjoy the speed!

[Coffeee]

So you gained 1.1megs? Hmmmm somehow i doubt thats possible.

[Rob2687]

That would only be possible if your settings were extremely fubared to begin with...

99.9% of people will get a negligible difference..

anyways.. you can run the tweak test at dslr and it basically tells you what to do.

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

[Tweaker]

Not at all my friend. I went from 3.6 to 4.7. I just ran the test again and here are the results:

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/BandwidthResults.asp

Download Bandwidth Test Results

Download speed: 4604 kilobits per second

Test details: 3354 kilobytes downloaded in 5.828 seconds.

Receive buffer size: Not available

Believe!!!

[Rix]

So you gained 1.1megs? Hmmmm somehow i doubt thats possible.

585541586[/snapback]

Yeh :huh:

[Keito]

lol... both sites told me my connection was < 3mbps... and I most definitely can download at speeds of 512kB/s (I DO have a 4mbps downstream and it works for sure, tested it many times using local sites and servers :yes:)

so for 1 I don't trust the results of those tests... then comes the part that you just know what your downstream is, your ISP gives you a certain connection and you can't surpass those speads legally as far as I know...

[Tungsten T]

Speed

1.5 megabits per second

Communications 1.5 megabits per second

Storage 183.9 kilobytes per second

1MB file download 5.6 seconds

Subjective rating Great

Explain results

Info

Date & time Sunday, February 27, 10:28AM*

Test type IDT4 Free

Connection type ADSL

Region New Jersey

Data size 1024KB

IP address 138.89.113.50

Provider Verizon Online

:p i dont need to tweak ****

Edit: Tweak Test said i got some perfect stuff (no reccomendatins

[joshpo]

these tweaks can really help download speeds, I recommend the DSL Reports test. But browsing pages you won't notice a huge difference.

[FiREFLi]

I used the values you recommended and did get a slight increase. +30-40Kb/s :)

Are there other optimum values to use? I have a 1Mb connection.

[Tweaker]

Road Runner has recently increase their speed to 5 megs at no additiona charge. In fact they even sent me a new modem because of the limitations of the old one.

[ZZOOzzoo]

WTF?

I'm on 3mbit broadband, and all the speed test give me less than 1.5mbit.

Something must be screwed up with my setting. :(

[McLaren_F1]

I Dont Beleive

[Hypoxiaicon]

These speed tetsts are in-accurate most of the time.

[Nelsinho]

:hmmm: I try it but no difference here :( maybe is my damn usb modem what use another kind of ethernet adapter :pinch: thanks anyway dude

[war]

Already tweaked.

Would be faster if I were not listen to 128kbps music, playing urban terror online (quake 3), downloading from irc at 103kbps atm and uploading at 20kbps. A third of my max upload btw.

That and its wireless and who knows what my brother is doing on his pc right now. Sure he is at least listen to music at 128kbps and playing urban terror. Sures hes in a few irc channel on enterthegame as well.

[AcdShdw]

i jumped from 8.1 megabits per second to 10.4 megabits per second with that lil app, not bad

[NienorGT]

PFF

Crap...

First time: got 3.9

Tweaked using your thing...

Got 4.5 ...

Made another test and get 4.9...

Strange I think..

[Orange]

After reading all the replys it doesnt make me believe in that this could happen.

Anyone got any screenprints of there connection speed before and after they did this test?

[Bepij]

yeah, that would be good. It barely effected mine :(

[rbet]

no change.

[GrimReeper]

No change for. I'm in Australia with cable got a speed of 4.7Megbits per second with tests. B4 and after using the app

[Guest moncojhr]

no change for me

[rojack]

i remain unconvinced, however... :sleep:

[dotRoot]

Here's mine...though they are default settings. These sites are very inaccurate. Most of the bandwidth testers are that I've came across. You'd have to factor in server load times at the time being and then factor in the computer you are using's activity.

Really the "TCP tweaks" don't do too much for anything. And even if you think so, then you'd have to find the balance between the internet and network speed you want, since it will effect both.

Edited April 4, 2005 by dotRoot

[yisman]

I got this before the tweak:

701.4 kilobits per second

Communications 701.4 kilobits per second

Storage 85.6 kilobytes per second

1MB file download 12 seconds

Subjective rating Good

Not sure if I should use the tweak.