High-speed connections surge

CNET News.com ^ | December 17, 2002, 9:43 AM PT | Declan McCullagh

[Petronski]

I AM running win98se. What patch?

[dennisw]

Windows 95 always need a patch for ye old 56k modems and the internt was full of little programs for doing this to the registry. Win 98 needs one for cable/DSL. These are two win98 patches and your 602k speed seems very good to me! ---->

http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml

mtupatch98.zip (updated 11/23/00) - Generic Registry patch for Windows 98. You might want to use the updated patch below instead. To install this patch, extract, then just double-click and reboot - the optimal settings will be added to your Registry automatically.

sguide_tweak_98_ME (updated 11/23/00) - Generic Registry patch for Windows 98/98SE and Windows ME (includes a fix for 98SE ICS, as well as corrected SackOpts location). This is an updated version of mtupatch98, it's an .inf file that tweaks the Registry and adds all the optimum settings for Cable modem, DSL, or any similar broadband connection. To install, extract the file, then just right-click and choose "Install" from the Pull-down menu. You need to reboot for changes to take effect.

 

 

[rdb3]

What's the advantage of a static IP address?

It means you bypass a DHCP server for authentication to access a network, i.e. the Web. In other words, your static IP belongs to you. A DHCP server assigns your machine an IP automatically.

For the typical user, it means little. For the advanced user, static IP addresses allow setting up a domain and other network usage. It grants the "power user" far more control.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[Bogey78O]

Yea, the feds like to tax anything with a bell logo on it. They treat cable companies the same way they treat mexican trucks (see nothing-hear nothing).

[Bogey78O]

'Also, there are often issues if you have multiple lines, etc. Since phone lines aren't as well shielded as the cable line (EMF interference, etc.) oftentimes filters and stuff have to be installed on lines in/to your house to get a stable connection.'

ehh...not quite that way.

Twisted copper only works on fairly low frequencies. It doesn't operate in the Mghz range. In fact with DSL you're only going up to 30kHz which is a far cry lower than coax. Also with a twisted pair it forms a collapsed loop which when properly twisted does well enough. Coax is a single strand. Basically think of it as trying to push a signal through(coax) versus sending it through a loop(phone).

Filtering into the house actually kills the DSL signal (20-30kHz) because normal filters on phone lines work on the talking (30-3400Hz) range. You do install filters to filter out the 20-30kHz DSL frequencies to prevent them from interfering with the phone however.

Everything else was fine though.

[Bogey78O]

Internal modem with no drivers for 2000?

She isn't sporting that dinosaur Alcatel 3060 is she? Heh, Bell gives out Westell and Alcatell USB and Ethernet modems now. They dropped the internal version completely.

[taxcontrol]

until your connection gets to the CO...

Yes that is true however, most DSLAM's I have seen installed have a trunk line of greater bandwidth than is consumed by the downstream. Esp. if the DSLAM is located at the CO. If it is a neighborhod DSLAM perhaps colocated at a school or business, then the upstream tends to be a T1. The first bottleneck experienced by most DSL subscribers tends to be the IP backbone connections to other providers.

[general_re]

The first bottleneck experienced by most DSL subscribers tends to be the IP backbone connections to other providers.

Yep. Which, depending on the company in question, may or may not be ridiculously oversold ;)

[taxcontrol]

Yep - I was redoing the design for a midsized regional ISP. Their only tech guy of any merit on netowrks, had just left and the customers were complaining. Seems that they had sold about 20 megs of access and were trying to deliver on two T1's. One active one backup - 1.5 meg active at any one time.

The obvious solution was a fractional T3 delivering ATM (for rapid changes in bandwidth if needed), but there office was about 2 miles from the nearest CO and a good 600 yards from the nearest fiber run. They did not want to spend the money for the fiber run and did not want to pay for the monthly T3 costs.

Ended up working out an IMUX solution that at least got them up to 6 megs upstream (4 T1's load balanced at the bit level) - but at the rate they were growing, I doubted that would last past 12 - 14 months before they would run into trouble again.

Later heard that they were boughtout by another regional ISP about 6 months after the solution was put in.

[Fledermaus]

Close to $50 after taxes? OUCH....that's some high taxes. It's $43.50 after tax....

I live on this box and thus I need the high speed.