DSL-Windows 2000

[Guest]

I have Verizon's "premium" DSL service at home with a nominal delivery rate
of about 3300 Kbps at the output of Verizon's router. Verizon sent a
telephone lineman to my home to confirm that the router 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 router via Ethernet cable. Per Verizon's speed test
run over the Internet on this PC, the PC was receiving data yesterday at a
nominal 768 Kbps, which is the delivery rate for Verizon's bare bones DSL
service. Today it is receiving data in the range 177-277 Kbps.

The Verizon router has a wireless radio to which I connect a Dell Inspiron
7500 Pentium III laptop (running Windows 2000 Professional) via a Motorola
wireless card. Per Verizon's speed test run over the Internet on the laptop
PC, the laptop was receiving data yesterday at a nominal 1500 Kbps. When I
connected the laptop via an ethernet card and cable, the receiving rate
remained a nominal 1500 Kbps. Today the rate is in the range 177-692 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 98 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 WSJ column
last month respecting the 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?

Thank you for your advice and help,

JAF

 

[Mark V]

I have Verizon's "premium" DSL service at home with a nominal
delivery rate of about 3300 Kbps at the output of Verizon's
router. Verizon sent a telephone lineman to my home to confirm
that the router 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 router via Ethernet cable. Per
Verizon's speed test run over the Internet on this PC, the PC
was receiving data yesterday at a nominal 768 Kbps, which is the
delivery rate for Verizon's bare bones DSL service. Today it is
receiving data in the range 177-277 Kbps.

That is more likely a result of something external to the operating
system. The Service itself (your ISP) or telephone line conditions
(or filters).

The Verizon router has a wireless radio to which I connect a
Dell Inspiron 7500 Pentium III laptop (running Windows 2000
Professional) via a Motorola wireless card. Per Verizon's speed
test run over the Internet on the laptop PC, the laptop was
receiving data yesterday at a nominal 1500 Kbps. When I
connected the laptop via an ethernet card and cable, the
receiving rate remained a nominal 1500 Kbps. Today the rate is
in the range 177-692 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 98 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 WSJ column last month respecting the
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?

Thank you for your advice and help,

Although your question relates to settings in the Windows registry,
it is out of the scope of this group (TCP stack tweaking) for the
most part. xDSL/Cable fora would be better IMO.

I recommend you visit BroadbandReports
http://www.dslreports.com/
for information on "tweaking" and such. They even have free tools.
But I rather doubt that this will affect your speeds by more than a
few percent. IOW not the problem to which you are seeking a
solution.
Remember to make a "Full Registry Backup" on your un-named OS
before "tweaking".

http://rdweb.cns.vt.edu/public/notes/win2k-tcpip.htm
and many articles at Microsoft, such as
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224829/en-us