broadband internet speeds

[Guest]

My broadband company (optonline) has boosted speeds in my area to 15 Mbps,
but I'm hovering about 5-6 Mbps. Their website detected that I was using a
base 10 ethernet card and need to purchase a base 100 card. The one I have is
a 3com 10/100 PCI card. Shouldn't this be sufficient to run the higher
speeds. Why doesn't it automatically give me the faster speeds? If I have
the right ethernet card, is it a cable I need or change some settings?

 

[Steven]

try updating the drivers for your network card, there may be newer ones
available that may fix your problem

check on your network cards manafacturer site or
www.driverguide.com user: drivers pass: all (temp password, supposedly
going to expire but still works)

 

[Bill]

Your cable modem is only able to connect at 10 not 100.
There is nothing you can do.

 

[V Green]

Further to my other post, as I check the website,
I see that OptOnline is CABLE internet.

CABLE internet is a SHARED connection, the bandwidth
is SHARED by how ever many users are connected to the
segment you are also connected to. You can't ever get all
the bandwidth unless nobody else is also using it.

Again, be happy. You have a good, fast connection.

 

[Alias]

Further to my other post, as I check the website,
I see that OptOnline is CABLE internet.

CABLE internet is a SHARED connection, the bandwidth
is SHARED by how ever many users are connected to the
segment you are also connected to. You can't ever get all
the bandwidth unless nobody else is also using it.

Again, be happy. You have a good, fast connection.

I have cable and always get the bandwidth I'm paying for. To the OP,
call OptOnline until you get satisfaction.

Alias

 

[Rick]

My broadband company (optonline) has boosted speeds in my area to 15 Mbps,
but I'm hovering about 5-6 Mbps. Their website detected that I was using a
base 10 ethernet card and need to purchase a base 100 card. The one I have is
a 3com 10/100 PCI card. Shouldn't this be sufficient to run the higher
speeds. Why doesn't it automatically give me the faster speeds? If I have
the right ethernet card, is it a cable I need or change some settings?

My computer Guru says that he thinks that the Gigalan cards are best.

Rick

 

[Rick]

Your cable modem is only able to connect at 10 not 100.
There is nothing you can do.

That is not necessarily true. As I said below the guys that put my
system together thought it was faster than their others systems and the
only difference was in the LAN card.

Rick

 

[Bill]

Check the specs on the cable modem its 10 NOT 100.
Its not magic.

 

[Jim]

I had a similar problem when my cable company upped their speed. In my case
the cable modem was an old model and needed to be upgraded. After the new
modem was installed I got about 2/3rds of the advertised speed. Using a
utility called Dr. TCP (DRTCP)
and setting the TCP Receive Window value (which originally was null) to a
value of 56940 got me the rest of the advertised speed.

You may need to try higher values in your case.

Jim

 

[Rctfreak]

I had a similar problem when my cable company upped their speed. In my case
the cable modem was an old model and needed to be upgraded. After the new
modem was installed I got about 2/3rds of the advertised speed. Using a
utility called Dr. TCP (DRTCP)
and setting the TCP Receive Window value (which originally was null) to a
value of 56940 got me the rest of the advertised speed.

You may need to try higher values in your case.

Jim

Same thing happened to me when my cable company upgraded speed but all
I had to do was simply unplug my modem for about 1 minute and then
plug it back in to get the new speed.