More Cable Modem Questions!

[Hilander]

Thanks to all that responded to my previous post.
It seems that my cable modem connection is well below standard @148Kbps.
The @ Home service fitted a SMC 10Mbps card. Could this be the problem? Is there a 10/100Mbps card for cable modems? Is there any settings I should check? I don't want to stay home all day waiting in the cable company again.

 

[jinsonxu]

Could be your NIC but cable speed is usually max at only 1.5MBps so it's unlikely.

 

[Windogg]

Cable is not dedicated so there are no guarantees on speed. When everyone jumps on and a few of them fire up Napster, you can crawl like dialup.

Windogg

 

[jinsonxu]

148Kbps as in kilobits per second or kilobytes per second? If it's the first, you're having it too bad. But the second is ok.

Your connection speed is also dependent on how fast you computer can receive the data, whether your cable provider's servers are working right or not, the quality of the wiring, the number of users on your node, the location of the site you're downloading from, how fast the server there is.

If you can download at at least 140-200kbps from local sites and the high speed sites like erm,...tuscows? Then don't worry too much. I've had my download speed at 5kbps before, same as a 56K modem. That was because the server i was downloading from only allowed a max of 5kps for each download like. Was no problem for me though, i merely searched for 6 other downloads and did them all at the same time, at 5kbps. No one tricks me out of my bandwidth!

 

[GQ]

<< Is there any settings I should check? >>



www.speedguide.net

Try the above site, it helped my @home connection a lot.

GQ

 

[Slapstick]

There is one more thing you can check, make sure your cable isn't split more than once on the line going to your PC or you could have low numbers. A friend had @home installed and the tech put a spliter on the cable to feed a TV signal to a tuner card, (that made it 2 splits on the line). Took off the splitter and now he's getting download speed between 250 to 300 Kbytes.