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<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>HOW TO TWEAK YOUR BROADBAND CONNECTION</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HOW TO TWEAK YOUR BROADBAND CONNECTION"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>START HERE</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mailbag"><U>Mailbag</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="USEFUL LINKS"><U>USEFUL LINKS</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04658020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> START HERE</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">STEP 1: Do a speed test <A HREF="http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedt"><U> </U></A><A HREF="http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedt"><U><U>HERE</U></U></A> and take a small note of your ACTUAL speed.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">STEP 2: Click <A HREF="http://www.dslreports.com/front/DRTCP021.exe" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.dslreports.com/front/DRTCP021"><U>HERE</U></A> to download DrTCP and run it.</div> <div>       DrTCP ==> <IMG SRC="04b811c0.gif" border=0 width="385" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">STEP 3: Settings...</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <U>Try these for a 512k connection</U></div> <div> Tcp Receive Window "14380"</div> <div> Windows scaling "Default"</div> <div> Time Stamping "Default"</div> <div> Selective Acks "Default"</div> <div> Dial Up (RAS) MTU "1478"</div> <div> Path MTU Discovery "Default"</div> <div> Black Hole Detection "Default"</div> <div> Max Duplicate Acks " Left blank! "</div> <div> TTL "Left Blank!"</div> <div> Under Adapter Settings - MTU = "1478" for ALL cards listed ...</div> <div> Then SHUTDOWN and TURN OFF your PC leave for 20 seconds and boot up again...</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Now try ANOTHER Speed Test and compare to your old speeds ;-)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There's more Tweaks <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=eclipse&Number=733335&fpart=1&PHPSESSID=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded"><U>HERE</U></A> </FONT>that you can try, see which ones work best for <U>you</U>! </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Remember, if you use a <U>Router</U> (e.g.: Speedtouch 510 v4) then click <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF00BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.zensupport.co.uk/mtu/NetworkOptimiser.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.zensupport.co.uk/mtu/NetworkO"><U>HERE</U></A></FONT> then run it.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118bfbf0000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">One Meg Settings, try 25884 for your RWIN and 1478 for your MTU, with lots more in the red link above. </div> <bR> <bR> </BODY>