| Does your connection crawl? I bet it does buddy, just | | | | I said "I tweak my registry", You wont have to |
| try these few simple tweaks, lets get you fixed today. | | | | manually edit it because I use a great free tool called |
| The following tweaks and modifications are the ones I | | | | Cablenut! |
| personally perform to my Cable connection after fresh | | | | So you downloaded CableNut? Good! Now you are |
| installing windows. | | | | ready to start getting information to use with the |
| Note-This Guide works with DSL and Cable | | | | program. |
| Connections! | | | | The first value that you will need to calculate is the |
| The first thing I like to do is run over to Control Panel > | | | | Maximum Anticipated Latency of your connection. To |
| Network Connections and "right click" Local Area | | | | do this, you will use the trace route command built into |
| Connection (Your primary connection) | | | | Windows XP. Follow these steps to get the latency |
| Then I Uncheck: | | | | value to use for your connection Alrighty so now lets |
| "Client for Microsoft Networks" | | | | find our Maximum Anticipated Latency! To do this, |
| "File and Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks" | | | | Download a really big file such as the .NET SDK |
| "QoS Packet Scheduler" | | | | framework at |
| Then I like to install LVLLORD'S TCP PATCH.... (Read | | | | While this file is downloading, run over and open up |
| more info below) | | | | Command Prompt by opening "RUN" and typing in |
| Microsoft Limited TCP connections in SP2 to 10! | | | | cmd. This brings up a nice big black window. Now you |
| Regain lost speed by applying lvllord's patch. Just | | | | need to run what is called Tracert 5 times in this box |
| download the patcher and execute it. It will | | | | and write down the highest number you get with |
| automatically find the windows directory and ask, if it | | | | every tracert. |
| should increase/decrease. Enter C and change the | | | | So lets get this straight you need to run tracert 5 times |
| value to 100, and confirm your changes. After a | | | | each time to a different site. For exampletracert When |
| successful patch, the new TCPIP.SYS will be | | | | you run it let it finish...can take up to 3mins then copy |
| automatically installed. Restart your computer | | | | down the highest number. Do this five times, then |
| After I get my Tcp nicely patched, I move on and | | | | DROP THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST VALUE and |
| Tweak my windows xp registry settings to unleash | | | | average the other 3 (add them all up then divide by 3). |
| my cable connection's real potential. Don't be worried if | | | | |