With all due respect tp cablenut and everyone else.
I have been reading about his and many other speed patches/fixes or whatever their called for years.
Bottom line is they are not recommended and in most cases do not help. They can actually hurt more than help
reason being is pretty simple. 1 seeting does not fit all!!!
I been trying to get that through to people for so long I feel like I'm wasting my time. Too many people want the 'quick fix" and I hate to tell em but there is none.
tweaking a broadband connection is pretty simple.
Basically there are really only 2 things to optimise.
RWIN- Recieve Window
MTU- maximum Transmission Unit.
Process I always follow.
Call ISp to find out advertised/capped speed of the connection
Do a tweak and speed test (I use tests at another board (only cause they aint here)and not sure if I am allowed to post that board here, but I know many people from here go there also)
I use a program called DR.TCP to change those values as needed. Its safe and easy.
After changing values re test (as many times as needed)
Once the connection is getting 90% of the capped speed the job is done.
PS- formula for figuring out RWIN
"after a tweak test take the "RTTavg".
Take this value and use it for latency in the formula.
(latency) x 1.5 x (advertised speed) divide by 8
Example: MSS is 1460, RTTavg is 125ms, and advertised download speed is 1500kbps.
125 x 1.5 = 187.5
187.5 x 1500 = 281250
281250 divide by 8 = 35156
35156 divide by 1460 (MSS) = 24.07
Round up to next even number = 26
26 x 1460 = 37960 (Optimal RWIN).
There is also a RWIN calculator to make life easy but again I donno if I can post that here.
Anyways, all I gotta say is a 1.5 connection cant be made to go to 13 MGB LOL
There are no upload tweaks.
And 1 setting does NOT suit all.
EXAMPLE - 1 patch recommended me to make rwin 64240
My connection is 3MGB down (TY, RR, LOL)
I made my RWIN 29200 and I am actually getting 2990 down, better than 90%
I couldnt be happier