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Join the Happy Campers Club

Have come up with an idea that we are going to call the Happy Campers Club, this club will be for individuals that have come to the site and in particular to the broadband tweak forum that have gotten excellent help in optimizing their system to the maximum! I would kind of tease some people every once in awhile and state something like the following: Gee, it looks like you got excellent help in getting your system completely optimized, looks like we have another "Happy Camper", well what we want to do now is expand that just a little and let the person who got the help give a short explanation of why they were happy to find the site and the tweak forum.

I have brought this to the attention of Lanik and Pinan, and we will start off with it being in the form of a thread, originated by myself. If you would like to join, all you have to do is continue the thread and give the reason why you thought that the service and help given by all the regulars (or any particular one individual) was helpful in getting your system set up properly.

The only thing we are asking at this time is NOT to respond to the persons response. We only want the new addition and the reason why they thought they would like to join the club. We would like to keep it completely free of any flaming or comments that could be considered off color.
We are going to make it so that any Moderator can come along and delete what they might consider inappropriate to the thread (I think most people would agree to this and will understand).

Well, there you have it in a nut shell, just something that I came up with and thought I would like to share with the entire forum now and in the future. Hope everyone finds the idea kind of appealing and enjoyable! Ram
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I am part of the Happy Camper Club. Thanks to y'all here in the tweaking forum for tweaking my Cox HSI cable modem connection. Because if it wasn't for any of you guys, I would of got DSL or something faster after I got my computer 4 months ago. Tweaking works for me and my computer, and I have tried the Windows default at 17520, SG patches and cyberwizardpit, and cablenut weaks and those didn't work for me, but I find 43800 to work for me better. If it wasn't for DSLR for tweaking my Roadrunner connection, I would of thrown the cable modem out the window and got dsl 2 years ago.

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Well here is my story. When I got DSL one of the Tech Support people recommended this site. I came here and first did a little lurking around. I was using the SpeedGuide patch and the stalls and freezes were driving me nuts. After a while I decided to try what some of the people recommended and it worked out a lot better. When I installed my Win2k Ram was the one who helped me tweak it actually.

I have been here ever since.
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Well, I found this page from a listing of Axcel216's links. I was just going from site to site on that page on my poor ol' little 56K (AOL, bleh). This was on February 26th. I signed up and participated in the forums.

Nothing happened until about sometime in mid-August, when my ADSL kit from BellSouth arrived. I installed the modem, software, then hopped on over to the BellSouth forum where they helped me tweak. (I didn't even know the Tweaks [at the time] Forum existed)

I've been here ever since, and I have learned a great deal about computers. That's my story.
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I got cable in November of 2001, after nearly 4 years of dial-up. I stumbled my way in here the first week of December, speeds about 50% of what they should have been, and Pinan got me going. I posted a line test with no ping response (and my IP visible), and I started two different threads after I made adjustments.
In other words, I was the typical newbie. Anyway, Pinan and Red soon had me kickin', and I really dug both the speed and the idea that computer connections could be made better by adjusting everything out like it should be. I started hanging out in the tweaks forum, lurking. Late February of this year, I helped my first poster in the forum. 6 months later, I'm still here.
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I got my Verizon DSL a year and a half ago. I had NO idea there was sooo much involved in really getting a good connection! I have found everyone on DSLReports forums to be so helpful, and I have learned so much from this site! When I first got my DSL installed my speeds were horrible, and so I found this site thru another site, and I am really glad I did. I recommend it to all my friends. I just want to give a BIG thanks to all who have helped me out and thanks to Ram for inviting me to his Happy Campers club!

Well, my experience in finding DSLR and their tweak forum pretty much began when I my DSL line were having problems. This was way back sometime between July/August of last year. I was under AOL Plus DSL during the time (still am). It was obvious that AOL's tech support were of no help. I wasn't to sure what the problems. Speeds kept on fluctuation, yet most of the time it was slow. So that triggered me to do a yahoo search for similar problems until I got repeated hits from DSLreport.com that I decided to click the selection.
And wow, I was in for surprise when I found myself on the home page of DSLR. The reviews I saw were interesting to read, everyone had problems (horror stories were my favorite). Searching through the site, that's when I found those nice test Where tweaks were mention. "Tweaks" is a word in triggers my mind as to be "a really good thing!" So heck, I took the plunge and followed the links into the tweak forum. Their I saw Pinan and Red using terminology's which my brain would not compute to understands...packets, retransmission...what!? . Being anonymous, I posted away some of my test result. Man, such speed replies, they've stated I have a line problem and that I had to call. Cool, I called in (with some lying, and persuasion...they didn't know what I was talking...ahh AOL techs ). About a three days later, I wake up finding the line very smooth and consistent. Yeah! It worked! WOOO!
I then revisited the site, posted anonymously with cleaner test, and boom! I was introduced with DrTCP. I followed the tweakers instructions and my connection became more responsive and reliable.
May I say this: Thank You!

Now, after all that, I was still interested in how the Internet works. So I dug into the FAQ's, looked around the forum (Man! Tons of discussions and info!).
I was impressed with the site and it's members, so I joined and became a member myself
And so, here I am!

My connection isnt really tweakable..but not to long ago i went to my sisters house and posted here and her speed doubled..so this is a great place...
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I guess I'll start at the beginning. I came to DSL Reports in early March of 2001 because my internet provider (Winfire ) had gone down the tubes and left us all high and dry. So I spent the first couple months here on dialup, but kind of watched the tweaks forum from time to time, dreaming of the day I'd finally have DSL again.

Well, I finally got DSL from Earthlink/Covad in June of 2001 . My first stop was -- guess! You got it, right here to this forum. I was so fired up I think I even forgot to post answers to the 10 questions (11 now), lol. Thanks to Pinan, Mike, Haze, and of course the Ram, I got my TCP situation under control (Winpoet tweaking at the time seemed to me like such a challenge).

Well, I was so intrigued by this tweaking stuff that I kept the forum on my favorites and just kind of watched and learned, and before I knew it I was doling out advice (and was treated very nicely by Pinan and others when my advice was wrong ) and soon was spending numerous hours/day here. Well, unfortunately life is quite busy these days so I don't get an opportunity to help out much, but I still drop in every now and then.
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the help is exceptional and hey nobody even makes ya feel stupid for asking that makes me a HAPPY CAMPER CLUB Member!

This is THE only site for broadband solutions and Ram can always be counted on for expert tech advice as well as being the voice of calm in the midst of the storm. Hats off to Ram!

I stumbled into DSLReports while looking for information on broadband service some time ago. It was a few months before DSL was available in my area, so I lurked in the forums for a little while.
When the installer finally showed up to install my DSL, everything synched up great. Now comes the real test: The first speed test. I was excited to have this new broadband internet running into my home. The results of the first speed test were: 57kbps.
My heart just sank. The installer was perplexed. He ran the patch cable straight to his laptop. 1200 kbps downstream. We were even more frustrated, then. The installer tried his best, including replacing the NIC that I had installed. Still 57kbps.
The installer left my apartment to go to his truck for more equipment. I, seeing a chance to help the man save face, logged onto DSLReports and was introduced to the wonderful world of the TCP RWIN setting.
It turns out that when I was on the 56k modem, that I had tweaked it to squeeze out a little more speed. Well, those registry settings were still holding us back. I quickly downloaded a registry tweak for my OS. Win98 was rebooting as the installer came through the door. The speed test read 1370kbps, and the guy was just amazed.
I told him what I had done to remedy the problem, and all he could say was, "what's the URL for that site again?". I gave him the URL and he was on his way. Thanks to DSLReports, that particular installer probably never had that problem again.

KB
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Thanks to all the broadband tweaksters who have helped me along the way. The site was recommended a while back by an Insight tech(he was actually an @Home tech at the time). I was actually a lurker for about 2 weeks until I finally got up the nerve to experiment and posted here. I was so amazed at the difference it made. Everyone was so informative and didn't make me feel stupid with all the dumb questions I had and I had a lot. Now I'm tweaking all my friends computers and telling everyone to check out the forum. It's definitely the very best forum anywhere.
Thanks again!

Thought I'd take a couple of seconds and state my reasons as well. I have SWBell DSL and the first two weeks were a night mare....up -- down, up -- down. Speeds were horrible, and I thought, what the heck have I gotten into. Then after getting the line to work properly, my speeds were in the tank and I thought they should have been much better.

Well, I let it slide, because of course my provider had know idea on how to do anything to get the speeds up to par. Then my son told me about DSL Reports, took the time to register and just kind of lurked around for almost a month, believe it or not. Then after getting up the courage to go to the tweak forum, I was introduced to individuals that really did know something about tweaking my system, and getting the excellent help that I thought the provider should have given me (yeah, right)! So Pinan and a host of others got my system tweaked, and when I first came here I didn't even know what tweaked meant (LOL)!

Then I made a pledge to myself that I would learn as much about tweaking as I could, so that maybe in the future I could help other people just like myself that have gotten a high speed connection, but were not completely satisfied with the over all performance and speeds up to their desired standards. I would like to thank Pinan, who I know much have thought at first, this guy is never going to work out as a helper on the forum, for taking the time to take me under his wings, so to speak, to get all the fine points down so that I now can make my pledge come true. Plus, thanks to everyone for the patients that they had when I first started helping others, as I'm sure Pinan had to bail me out of things that I should have never been into in the first place!

The site and the broad tweak forum both have come a long way since the first days I was here, and I am proud to be part of such a wonderful group of individuals. I tip my hat to everyone who take their own time to become part of the greatest site and forums on the entire net, IMHO!
Thanks everyone......Ram
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Not all that great at this sort of thing but I will give it a try. I am new to computers, started off with webtv. Friends with computers kept trying to send me things that I had to send back because I could not open them. I finally got tired of that and broke down and bought a computer. To help learn how to work this thing I started watching Tech tv. On there I kept hearing them refer to this site so I checked it out. At about the same time I started seeing the DTV end of the internet ads and also got a letter from DTV about their service being available in my area. Knowing little about it I decided to take the plunge anyway. I got the service in Jan. of this year and have been lurking around this site since just before then. I still spend a lot of my time right here in the tweaks section, reading the posts and using what information I find that seems to apply to me. Last time I did a speed test I was getting 1253/220 and my tweak test showed 100% and pings in the 50's so I guess I read well.
I am still too new at this to give much help to others but I chime in every now and again when I think I know an answer. I don't game and ,as I said I am new to computing so ,if I had not found this site I am sure I would have been happy with whatever I had gotten straight out of the box.(Not knowing what I was missing)
Thanks to dslreports (and Tech tv for leading me here) I am starting to really get into the wonderful(?) world of computers. I am definetely a member of the happy campers club.

I got my 640/90 Bellatlantic InfoSpeed DSL in march 2000, and was WAY pleased at the speeds, (had AOL dial-up at the time) I had no idea just how fast my line was and didn't even know to check it. Hadn't heard about DSLR, or any other test sites for that matter. Just surfin along, enjoying how FAST it "was"....;)
Then I somehow stumbled onto this site, don't even remember how.....
But, when I found the tools section and ran a speed test.... WOW... 315/60 This is so fast.....
Wait a minute: I'm supposed to get 640/90... what's up with that?
Next, I found the tweak tester, (and was afraid to try changing the RWIN and MTU....going in THE REGISTRY)
I got over my terror of using DrTcp, and did the deed.
Hey, now we're talkin' 480/70... Wooo Hooo! (I'm Bad!)
Last november, I got my line upgraded to 1.5/128, and now we're talkin'.... Verizon done good.
(minor snags, but, hey, it works great
Maybe someday OOL will come around here, and I can give them a whirl....)
where was I.... oh yeah....
Found the forums shortly thereafter......and haven't left.
This place is the BEST.
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Internet access over cable was first brought up beginning of 1997 here over in Switzerland. I was one of the lucky guys that was able to test the new cable system over months without having to pay for my line. The provider is Cablecom and had the product called Internetplus. Today the product is called www.hispeed.ch.

I first stumbled over SpeedGuide and tried there patch and found many other sites that had a lot of explanations that just didn't seem to work for me. Finally I found DSLReports and was amazed that there were only two values that need to be adjusted (MTU and RWIN)

I just had to register. You won't believe this, my login name was Speedy the first time I signed in But, because I didn't bother visiting DSLReports I soon lost my login name. However, I decided to name myself Slowcoach, due to the fact that my 512/128 kbps line is at the lower end of those speeds mensioned in this forum.

Well, this is a bit of history on my behalf and would like to thank all moderators and others that contribute to this forum and website. There is no other place on the web that compares to DSLReports

When I first heard about DSLR I had just started working for ASI installing and repairing DSL lines for SBC. One of the testers I deal with mentioned the site and told me to check it out. I did, registered and haven't been able to go long without a "fix" since.

It's probably a given that I've logged into DSLR under more IPs than just about anyone here, due to the fact that as soon as I get a customer's line up and running, I'll come here and tweak the line for them.

I've been able to help a lot of other folks online through the forums and still do, as well as answer a ton of IMs from folks looking for more specialized help.

When I got my satellite from DirecPC I was in the Satellite and Tweaks forum getting that connection up and running in no time.

Just let me say in closing that this has got to be one of the most engrossing site on the NET. Between the DC clubs, the *Special Comradarie areas* and the all-knowing forums there's something here for everyone. I always make sure to show my customers this site. I'm not sure, but I know of a few that are still around.
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I was surfing the web a few yrs back and found this site..all I can say is WOW.What amazing talent we got here!The tweak forum got me started on my sdsl,wireless,now cable.All have helped me out in everyway.Thanks again guys!
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OK I have a little time on my hands here.

I first ordered ADSL from Verizon November of 2000. It took them till Feb 14th ( Valintines day ) 2001 to hook me up.

I was on a Analog dialup shotgun setup prior to that. 2 phonelines ona duel account. I was getting a average speed of about 80kbps with that.

I ordered the 768/128 service. But when I started out I was only getting like 400/90 average speeds. So I found a site I'll not name and set my RWIN to 256960 but was only getting a line speed of about 500/110 then. I was very familure with the registry but not tweaking broadband at the time. So I did a google search April of 2001 and found DSLR.

Queries on which was better the large or small RWIN. Pinan stepped up to the plate and set me straight. I re-set my RWIN to his sugested 20440. Rebooted and retested and WOW!!! My first test to Megapath was 697/121

I then did some other things like clear the proxy settings and some browser tweaks and then till now average about 720/121 speeds. Happy Camper yes indeed. And to return the kind favor joined DSLR and did what I could in return to help.

Enjoy helping and learning very much.
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I'm not really new to this site. I come here often, I just choose not to post much because most of the people here are quite knowledgable and get to them before I do.

I came here right after I got my DSL line a year and a half ago from TDS Metrocom. When they first installed it, it was only 256/256 and I was paying for the 768k package. So I'm like "WTF?". I came here thinking that maybe I just needed to tweak my line. After asking for a little help here I noticed that I still could not get above 256k. So I called up TDS and I'm like "Where is my 768k I am paying for?". They do a quick test on my line and then say "Oh, someone must have configured you wrong. I will put in a call right away and you should be at your purchased speeds within a few hours". Sure enough 2 hours later I'm gettin past 256k, but still no where near 768k. I've tried everything you guys have told me in the past, but to no avail. I am stuck with about 550/450 during the day and 610/450 during the night, but I've never experianced an outage so I guess that's a plus.

It's either DSL from TDS Metrocom or
ADSL from Ameriwreck (Yuck!)...
Roadrunner from Timewarner Cable (Worse than Ameriwreck)
Or this new sattelite company that is coming to my area next month.

BTW,
I know it's off the topic, but if anyone has any ideas at all for what else I could do to speed up my line some, please let me know...

Doubled my speed and gave me the feeling of some control over my connection.

great bunch of people, nice place to hang out.

physically beautiful website.

and stars too, like in heaven! (OK, maybe I'm getting carried away)

mostly it's the people.

I got TW/RR during January. Coming from dial-up, I thought 900 speed was good. In fact, I stumbled here to run a speed test. Started hanging around the RR and Tweak forums.

RWIN,MTU,MSS,DrTCP,Retransmission packets? Holy mackerel Andy, what kind of language do those people speak? Change the registry setting. Yea...right! What planet are you from?

You think I'm "gonna" ask you for help. First I have to post the URL from the tweak, and line test. Huh?...I can't find that button. What's a URL anyway? Sure I read the getting started....but, couldn't get started.

So I just "lurked" for 2 months before I even joined. Thank you "Tweakies", you have vastly improved my education. I can even speak your language. My Rcwin is at 32,120 (11 x double mss). My system pulls a fairly consistent 2000/350 kbps from all over the country, latency is low, with no packet loss. I learned to do all this from perusing your suggestions to others.

I takes a special "breed of cat" to donate time and effort (day in and day out). You should be commended for your patience.

I would be honored to join The Happy Campers Club.

Thanks all those who posted my compaq is ready to race anyone who hasn't tweaked their system yet. 1200/384, 0 packet loss, 1492 on win95.

I'm a very happy camper as my Wireless broadband ISP advertised 400/400kbps speeds. But after you guys got done tweaking my connection I now get 600-1000kbps both up and down. Simply amazing. I love this site too, I have already learned so much just by reading FAQ's and forums. Great job you guys are doing.

I am extremely happy with the results i've gotten from using this site, the regular posters helped alot with tweaking my settings and I also ran into the guy in charge of the local system right here on these forums.

He suggested I call the office and talk to him about some packet loss and poor speeds I was having, I called and talked to him and everything has been great every since, it's awesome to see people like that still do exist and read these forums and actually *gasp* care for their customers.

A big thank you to everyone that helped!

Time to bring this up!
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Well, let me start by saying I don't think it's a good idea at all.........hehe....just jokin there Ram I like it!

My story goes like this....I live in Germany and don't speak the language fluent so telephone calls to tech reps can be quite challenging to say the least. I had upgraded to ISDN maybe a year before and heard that DSL was rolling out in my area so I signed up for it....like 4 times. Somehow I kept disappearing from there system. Anyway, after 10 months, I had it! It wouldn't work so a tech came by and got it working....after 3 1/2 hours!
It didn't seem that much faster than my ISDN line (768/128) so I started searching the internet for DSL...(be patient man, it's coming).
The first place I found was DSLR. And soooooo lucky was I. I did the test tough on my own and followed the directions about how to manually go in and change RWIN and what not. Got it running faster in no time at all. Then I started posting my speed/tweaks test and asking questions. got it running even better...In fact about as good as it gets! I get over 700 down now almost all the time with a 768 line.
During this process I was asking all kinds of questions and got all kinds of good answers.
And read read read! Sometimes I spent all day at work (shhhhh) here just reading the different threads.
Sooooooo much information here, and all free.

I'm a gamer so pings are important. Living in Germany I have a higher ping to the state side web sites.

Sorry, this is even going to slow for me!
Anyway......Now, I help people sometimes. I'm not super smart on broadband like some people here, but I can help out most beginners and I'm usually on when all you state side wienies helpers are sleeping. So I can help that very very late or early people out a bit.

I remember how good I felt when my first tweaks test was good in all areas and my speed test hit 700+ when the first one was like 110 down....doh! I like it when I know I can make someone else happy the same way

Just one more thing I want to mention is the friendliness and professionalism we all get here from people that are just like us...Just another Joe/Josie sitting at home (or at work hehe) behind a computer, helping out.
What an atmosphere....
Ok..do I get to be in the DSLR commercial??
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Well, I popped in here 2 weeks ago, and got first class answers to my slow speed reports. The answers given were right on the money and easy to execute on my end due to the detailed instructions.

I'm at my ceiling on download and fairly close to upload , with the LAN running, it's performing 100% considering.

I highly recommend the forum ...
»Broadband Tweaks ( Broadband Tweaks )
to anyone seeking top shelve assistance. Just don't forget to answer as many of the forum questions that you can to get a response sooner, and post links to your reports not actual reports.

Their funny like that!
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A Happy Camper

When I was switched from @Home to InsightBB my download speed went to crap. I thought it would improve with time, but it didn't. That is when I found DSLReports and the "tweaks" forum. With their help and patience, my speed is back to where it should be....I can't say thanks enough. That is why I hope that anyone who can, will buy "tool points" regardless of whether they use them or not. It's a small price to pay for the piece of mind knowing that quick, courteous and knowledgeable help is just a "click" away. I don't want to see this when I have a problem and need DSLReports:

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