Internet connection speed

[Blinker]

Internet connection via broadband cable modem. As by my provider, internet
connection speed need be 25/10 Mbit .
But in a reality, I did several online speed tests, it show only 4.6/ 2.6
Mbit
Problem is that I tested on old 98 PC with old 10Mbit netword card. Can the
old 10Mbit netword card can be a reason for low speed shown?

 

[Ron Badour]

This is an XP newsgroup--suggest you call your ISP tech support or use
Google to see if you can find some help.
--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[Paul]

Internet connection via broadband cable modem. As by my provider,
internet connection speed need be 25/10 Mbit .
But in a reality, I did several online speed tests, it show only 4.6/
2.6 Mbit
Problem is that I tested on old 98 PC with old 10Mbit netword card. Can
the old 10Mbit netword card can be a reason for low speed shown?

If your service is 25 megabits/sec download speed, then the
modem probably has a 10/100BT interface on it. You need a better
network card, a network card with at least the ability to operate
at 100, so that the 25 will not be restricted by the network card.

As it stands right now, your 10 megabit/sec card is the bottleneck.
You cannot go faster than that, at the moment.

Network cards usually have good driver support, and Win98SE
can still be on the driver list. This card operates 10/100/1000,
so can handle anything you're likely to find in a home LAN.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106121

You can find cheaper cards, and some of those use older chips
that might have older drivers to choose from.

This one for example, is $7, and includes drivers for Win95.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166004

So you can still find support for older computers, with a new
network card.

I don't know if Windows 98 has any speed limitations, in terms
of its networking stack. Maybe you need a "TCP Tuneup", which
involves changing some TCP parameters, to get a better
delay*bandwidth product. Check for old web pages on tuning
TCP for Win98, before you concede defeat. Of course, this
is going to help the most, when that new network card
is installed.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

Paul

 

[Blinker]

Thanks for the detailed answer, all is clear now.

Blinker

 

[Chuck]

Not exactly-- Seems that most of the broadband cable modems are 10/100
"compatible". This really means that the modem throughput is likely to be
closer to 10 than 100. However, the 4.6/ 2.6Mbit is low if you have 25/10
service. The 4.6 number is really low in comparison to 2.6.
A fairly comprehensive test is available at http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov

 

[1Adata]

The modem is Cisco EPC3000 latest and newest version of DOCSIS 3.0 standard
modems, as far I know it able to reach 300+Mbps speed. This test
http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov requires Java Runtime environment which missing
on most computers.
Sure 4.6/ 2.6Mbit is too low, I expected to get 10Mbps with 10Mbps network
card.

 

[Chuck]

The max with a 10Mbps card is probably going to work out to about 8.7Mbps,
based upon a variety of factors that include windows and hardware.

I believe that this is quite typical for an XP system with a MBD with an
imbedded 10/100 network chipset and a DOCSIS 2.0 modem
From http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov
Your PC/Workstation has a 63.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to
8.75 Mbps
The network based flow control limits the throughput to 9.95 Mbps

"I expected to get 10Mbps with 10Mbps network card"

 

[Twayne]

The max with a 10Mbps card is probably going to work out to about
8.7Mbps, based upon a variety of factors that include windows and
hardware.
I believe that this is quite typical for an XP system with a MBD with
an imbedded 10/100 network chipset and a DOCSIS 2.0 modem
From http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov
Your PC/Workstation has a 63.0 KByte buffer which limits the
throughput to 8.75 Mbps
The network based flow control limits the throughput to 9.95 Mbps

"I expected to get 10Mbps with 10Mbps network card"

Actually, one can get the full 10 Mbps but you'll never see it reported
as data thruput that way because some of the 10 is used for non-data
markers, etc.. e.g. packet start/stop characters and other things like
it. Then there are line losses due to length of the wires, distance
from CO, distortion, etc., just like back when you had the old 56k modem
systems.
There are some 3rd party analyzers around that will analyze the
connection for things like that but I can't seem to find my references
for it. Check around with a search engine.

Twayne`