JAFJR
join:2006-01-26
Caldwell, NJ
2 edits | [speed/latency] DSL & Tweaking Windows 98SE/2000
I have Verizon's "premium" DSL service at home with a nominal delivery rate of about 3300 Kbps at the output of Verizon's black box (four ethernet outputs and a wireless. Verizon sent a telephone lineman to my home to confirm that their black box was outputting at that nominal rate, when I complained about the following.
I have a Dell Dimension 500 laptop (Pentium III) running Windows 98SE connected to the Verizon box via Ethernet cable. Per Verizon's speed test run (infospeed.verizon.net) the PC was receiving data at a nominal 768 Kbps. (This rate has gone as low as 177-277 Kbps.)
I connect the wireless to a Dell Inspiron 7500 Pentium III laptop (running Windows 2000 Professional) via a Motorola wireless card. Per Verizon's speed test run, the laptop was receiving data at a nominal 1500 Kbps. When I connected the laptop via an ethernet card and cable, the receiving rate remained a nominal 1500 Kbps. (This rate has gone as low as177-692 Kbps via wireless, at the same time the receiving rate of the Windows 98SE PC dropped to177-277 Kbps.)
I understand that Windows can be tweaked to improve the receiving rate but this involves changing the Windows registry and I am not fully informed on all of the required changes for either Windows 98SE or 2000. Verizon tells me that they do not provide help in the tweaking of Windows and that I should be receiving data at about (or at least) 70% of the nominal 3300 Kbps rate, which is what Mossberg sort of predicted in his December 2005 WSJ column respecting Verizon's 768 Kbps DSL service.
Have you come across the kind of problem I am experiencing? Can you recommend any books, software, etc. re tweaking Windows to improve the rate I'm receiving data?
My tweak test results are: »/tweakr/···a=normal
Many thanks for your help.
PS: I learned of speakeasy.net and tested speed between Caldwell NJ and the following places with the approximate results noted:
Down (Kbps) Up (Kbps)
New York City 2500-2700 496-532
San Francisco 1160-1200 325-328
LA 1254-1280 332-345
Wash. DC 2600-2650 491-497
Chicago 2321-2431 462-3
Dallas 1840-1889 394
I also ran the Verizon speed test. It was 1700 Kbps "down." The rough average of the six tests above is about 1990 Kbps. Is Verizon's "test" giving me an average of the rates from various points across the USA?
Now I am not sure I have a problem.?
Thanks again.
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