Cable Modem ... uncapping 512Kb limit?

[AmdEmAll]

I think mine is 1500kbps cap (bits). so thats 300kBps?(bytes)

 

[Stringy]

LOL... Now the modem users come in crying and weeping...
I pay DOUBLE what you "bandwidth challenged" Dailups pay,
I damn right deserve all the speed I paid for....
I've had my cable modem long enough to watch my service go
down the Sh1tter as more people got on the bandwidth bandwagon
I had 256k/s upstreams, then 128k/s, now, it's crappy Cap, barely
upload at 60k/s .... and these are all observed Rates, I transfer
between friends alot and Video Conference...

Video Conferencing is the only thing that this Cap really screws
up... which is infurating... I'm paying $40 a month, damn thing
should be fast enough to do the things they Advertise it to do...

I'm seriously concidering DSL when it gets in my area... I wish
they would hurry the hell up with the roll out, I want alternatives....



Craig

 

[AmdEmAll]

Stringy, I agree with everything you said. Every day it seems like my cable is getting slower and slower. And when I pay $40 a month for cable I expect it to be fast. Mediaone says it will be 50x faster then a 56k. haha I laugh at that. Its not even close. Im also thinking of DSL.

And all you 56k people, you get what you pay for is what I say.

 

[Finality]

They probably have UL limits so that people do not host warez/porn/mp3 servers which usually sucks most bandwidth away.

 

[jimmygates]

For all the people complaining about your cable modems getting slower and slower, thank the people who a) uncap their modems, b) run FTP's with their connections, c) b!tch at your ISP for stuffing 1219381028931902830 people within a small bandwidth pipe.


Second, I think 90% of the 56k users out there are using 56k because they cannot get DSL or cable modem so I don't think it was their choice to be cheap and get 56k but they had to use 56k to get internet connection.



-Jimbo

 

[Nullity]

jimmygates: You're right. I do agree with you...but..I have been too use to the uncapper that I don't think I will disable it unless my ISP tells me to do so. I doubt they would even care that I have the uncapper enabled since I don't upload a lot. They have bigger things to take care of.

Null

 

[AmdEmAll]

Nullity: How did you uncap your modem?

e-mail

 

[Nullity]

Well...first you must have a LanCity modem or else it will not work. Second, you need this program that I got off of SpeedGuide.net (I think they took it off of the site awhile back). Please do not ask me for the program. You can find a copy on the net pretty easily.

Null

 

[AmdEmAll]

Yes I do have a Lancity modem and what is your reason to not give it to me? Mabey I work for Mediaone undercover, LOL

 

[Night Blade]

Guess i'm the lucky one here, Shaw@Home & I have a 1MBps upload cap (120k/sec). Been the same for over 2 years here, download speed has gone down the hill though, used to get around 7MBps & now lucky to see 1MBps.

 

[Nullity]

I take back what I said. You don't even need that program to uncap your cable. All you need is your cable modem's MAC address, a static IP, and the knowledge of the 'arp' command.

Have fun,
Null

 

[Stringy]

I forget how to un-cap'em otherwise I'd help ya out AMDEmAll, been awhile since I needed
that kinda info...
for all else that are even thinking of "there's gotta be a way" here is a very nicely
written article which thuroughly explains why you can't ;o)




Craig

 

[Soccerman]

"I take back what I said. You don't even need that program to uncap your cable. All you need is your cable modem's MAC address, a static IP, and the knowledge of the 'arp' command."

heh.. interesting. I didn't even know you could manually associate IP addresses with MAC addresses in windows! u learn something every day!

 

[superbaby]

Here in Toronto with Rogers@Home, the service is so crappy that we don't even get speeds anywhere NEAR the cap. When we first got it we were pulling speeds of 60-80kb/s all the time. 2 years later and adding the entire neighbourhood onto the service, our speeds have gone down to 10-20kb/s, sometimes pulling 50kb/s at 4am in the morning. What I want to know is can we sue them for false advertising? They keep saying "100 times faster than modem" but it's hardly 2x faster. And the service goes down so much it's frustrating.

 

[Mutilator]

What they're saying is UP TO 50x faster or 100x faster or whatever... keywords there are UP TO. Since cable is shared they send a certain amount of data to each neighborhood or node... around here it was 30mbits downstream and 10mbits upstream... the more people you get on your node the slower everyones speed goes... and if you have someone running a server or something that is constantly using their max upload and sometimes stealing even more from others the whole network suffers. Basically you can't sue because you're getting the most they can provide to you given the circumstances. As for the service going down so much you can complain to them and refuse to pay for the time that you were down I do believe... so give it a try. I recently moved and switched from cable to dsl and havn't had a single problem so far.

 

[NucleusWDS]

Hey guys ... does it matter to have a 10Mb NIC or a 100Mb NIC on your system?
I'm in the process of uncapping my friends cable modem

EXTRA BANDWIDTH ... HERE WE COME !!!

BTW it's all connected via a LINUX box with a good firewall and security ... so hopefully no one will know ( ... hush )

 

[Hard_Boiled]

I have an old LanCity Cable modem too, but it's tricky to uncap it with my setup. I use Windows ICS to network the computers in my house, and the process of uncapping it becomes a little more complicated. I don't know if I can even do it, but I haven't invested the time to figure it out. I never upload data anyways(or have a need to upload faster than 32KB/s). My friend, who happens to be on the same node, has his LanCity modem uncapped. He uploads as fast as he downloads, 1.5 Mbits/s.

A great advantage to uncapping it is that while an upload is going, ping times to game servers do not decrease. Prior to uncapping it, an upload would kill his ping times. The bad part is, I swear he is sucking all the juice out of my node. He's some kind of FTP jock, always uploading and downloading. So please, don't uncap your modem unless you upload alot. Don't suck any more bandwidth out of our already over taxed cable networks!

 

[jimmygates]

Superbaby:

If you have crappy service you can complain to the cable provider and demand either a) something be done about the service, or b) a refund/credit or a refusal to pay that month's fee. Usually if the service is crappy, the cable provider would send someone out to check on things. I remember when my download speeds were real crappy and I called my cable provider to have them check it out. Turns out my upload signal was really crappy so it affected my download speeds. They tech installed some signal boosters on my outgoing line and my download speeds were back to normal.


NucleusWDS:

It doesn't matter what network card you use. 10Mbps - 100Mbps, all would be the same with a cable modem. Most providers only give 10Mbps bandwidth to 1 node so even a ISA 10Mbps network card would surfice.

Also, I don't see how a running linux or a firewall can prevent an ISP from noticing you are using an uncapped modem. Like I said, anyone decent system admin would notice an extra 1.5Mbps pulling off of their systems when usage should be around 512Kbps.


Hard_Boiled:

Your friend's ping time is not affected that much since with an uncapped modem he has a greater amount of bandwidth to work work than before. I think for your friend stealing your bandwidth, the least he can do is add you to his FTP?

-Jimbo

 

[hans007]

512 k is pretty good be happy with what you have. timewarner, in socal wher ei live, its a capped 256 up i think, well it was only enough for a 12 person counterstrike server barely. Download is like 3 megabits/sec though

 

[NucleusWDS]

Say ... I wonder if all my Windows PC connected behind the Linux box will benefit from the extra bandwith ? ...

WOW ... all 3 Windows PCs have download speeds of 60Kb/sec + Pings of 30 in UT and Q3

 

[NucleusWDS]

Say ... I wonder if all my Windows PC connected behind the Linux box will benefit from the extra bandwith ? ...

WOW ... all 3 Windows PCs have download speeds of 60Kb/sec + Pings of 30 in UT and Q3

 

[superbaby]

jimmygates,

Don't think I haven't called to complain. We call AT LEAST 5 times a month. Yet our service remains as crappy as ever, and it just keeps getting worse. I think they've given up on us, because I think they've simply signed up too many people on this neighbourhood.

 

[jimmygates]

If the company fails to do anything to help service, ask to talk to a manager to get credit on your account or threaten to file a complaint about them to the BBB.



-Jimbo

 

[Nullity]

If I remember correctly, aren't the cable systems in Cananda supposed to be way better than the US cable systems? In other words, Canadians get great speeds no matter where they are. I can't exactly remember if this is true or if its the opposite (US systems are better than Canadian). Anyways, someone enlighten me.

Null

 

[Stringy]

Nullity


<< If I remember correctly, aren't the cable systems in Cananda supposed to be way better than the US cable systems? In other words, Canadians get great speeds no matter where they are. I can't exactly remember if this is true or if its the opposite (US systems are better than Canadian). Anyways, someone enlighten me. >>


Well this comes from the idea that Newer is better... But, unfortunately, with shared bandwidth implimentations it's often the management of the technology that's more important that how new or more technologically advanced... Like the US, the Inet is in a Boom, and so is Broadband connections, so the Canadian Co's, just like the US counterparts, over book nodes and backbones in favor of increased profits...




Craig