(OT) Speed Boost From Dial-up To Satellite Via ISP And ???

Well I don't download to many programs to squawk about that actually work, but this one sure does.

It's been a known fact that ISP's have been capping usage lately from 8am to 8pm. It appears that time has been extended on several faster systems (DSL & satellite) to midnight. Even my dial-up at best is 28.8kbps had been throttled to 13kbps and what a hit too take on such a slow connection to begin with. There's got to be something better but that's satellite or T1. There's no DSL, 3G or cable available here.

My before/after testing was at speedtest.net. This program lets you choose a close/far server for testing.

Example; my before testing was 13kbps(down), 226kbps(up) and 233ms ping.

My after tests, 24kbps(down), 413kbps(up) and 266ms ping.

This about average after running several tests at different times of the day/night.

The "FREE" program that I used, NETEagle, a simple speed boost program that works with any Ms windows OS system version, including Vista. I DL the program at ZD.net. About 1mb.

Very simple too use. Pick your OS and choose your connection type and reboot. That's it, no other choices to make.

The person who designed the program doesn't tell you what they did or what they changed. But if it requires a reboot then it changed the registry so be sure to back-up and create a restore point before installing "just incase". I had absolutly no glitchs after installing.

One thing I did do was choose DSL for my conncetion type even tho I have a dial-up ISP. That worked the fastest for my system out of the given choices. I tried the satellite, T1 and ADSL and ISDN settings with no additional speed increase over the DSL setting.

I'm now back to DL 11k packets at a time instead of the typical 3k packets. That increases my overall throughput to well above a 28.8kbps dial-up connection or about 115kbps(up/down) over 6hrs of use.

BTW, my son has DSL & XP and tried the NETEagel program and got a 25% average bandwidth boost increase but more important it lowerd his LATENCY by 34%, a huge speed increase.

What is latency?

Example that is sometimes given: Imagine people in an aircraft. In this example, people are the data packets, the size of the aircraft is the bandwidth, and the speed of the aircraft is the latency.

A 747 can carry about 400 people but a 707 can carry only 200 people. Both fly at about 500 knots.

If both leave New York at the same time, they will arrive in Los Angeles at the same time. Notice that although, the 747 has more capacity (or bandwidth) it is the same 500 knot speed (latency) as the 707.

T_Bone

you can do it thru some cell phones with a cable and software or I got a little doohickey that plugs into my USB port. Got a USB extender cable and taped the sucker to my window frame for best reception.

I was paying $80/mo for ISDN which gave me true 64K thruput and paying an extra $15 to my isp for the ISDN access too. this was the best I could get though Sat was out of the question since I use VPN for my job from home and it will not work thru Sat.

I've tried the free 56k service from Verizon and in my area, fringe, it just drops out too much to be reliable. My nearest cell tower is only 4 miles away but there's a 500ft hill between me and the tower. I'm thinking of adding a pass thru antenna to the top of the mountain for a relay type signal booster. That would mean my antenna would be at the mercy of all the idiots that can't leave something alone.

I have a feeling that satellite is not going to work for me for the same reasons it won't work for your VPN. I think my stock data packets will hit the trash can before they get delivered.

T_Bone

Your welcome, Glad it worked for you!

If your running Vista, I found that running Defender full scan after a clean-up of IE7 and disk clean-up also improved preformance greatly. The test numbers didn't show any additonal improvement but page loads times greatly improved.

T_Bone

It usually entails going through someone elses (besides your "contracted and responsible" own internet provider's )server leaving yourself open to data mining by who knows who? And for what reason?

If somehow your data in transition is used in some way bad enough to cause you damage what recourse do you have?

I too have your concerns and I try very few programs. I went thru three other programs before this one that didn't even come close to doing what they said the program would do. They were removed imediately and a restore was done to make sure they were gone forever.

I had to do something tho. At a 28.8kpbs connection, a hit too 13kbps was just not acceptable. I sure wish I could get DSL and get it over with.

T_Bone

I too have your concerns and I try very few programs. I went thru three other programs before this one that didn't even come close to doing what they said the program would do. They were removed imediately and a restore was done to make sure they were gone forever.

I had to do something tho. At a 28.8kpbs connection, a hit too 13kbps was just not acceptable. I sure wish I could get DSL and get it over with.

T_Bone

Have you tried measuring the actual connection speed with an independent program? There are a number of web sites that allow you to measure connection speed.

The real measure of connection speed is when you download a large file. When load web pages, etc., there is a lot of dead time. When downloading a large file, you will be limited by the actual connection bandwidth assuming that the local connection is in fact the limiting factor.

Its not that such programs are necessarily a bad thing, its just I get irritated at the way they market themselves.

Keith

Yes I have as I explained. I tested at speed.net that has nothing to do with the program NETEagel, I think. I found the two in different places and they were not refferenced to one another so I assume they have no connections.

This program advertises that it will speed up your PC. It never said anything about increasing my ISP bandwidth. I took that to mean to speed up my OS by tweaking it to work better with what my ISP has given me too work with like any registry cleaner does.

Sorry I can't tell you what all the program does as they don't state what they do. I do know if the program requires a reboot then 10 to 1 there making/cleaning registry changes.

I stream data stock quotes on a regular basis. My thoughput has increased since I've been tweaking my Vista connection. The only number that matters to me is throughput as that's a real number that effects me on how I use my PC.

Thoughput= (total up/dn kbps)/time

T_Bone

With dial up it's more like busses and rickshaws.

If I were to believe they could actually speed up a connection from a said provider without actually being that said provider, and was provided with legitimate technical terminalogy and data to back it up I would not have posted this reply.

Tell me I'm wrong, and why.

Lets make sure where on the same page here. We can not effect/change the ISP system but we can change the way our system interacts with the ISP system!

There's many glitchs in our windows system that effects how well our PC preforms with a ISP connection. If we make changes to OUR PC then we can increase the speed of our system to yield the best results that the ISP speed has given us too work with. Review bit-torrents for another explantion.

If we buy 100kbps from the ISP and only use 50kbps then we've lost 50% of the speed that we paid for. All were doing is trying to orperate at near maximum ISP speed that we bought.

T_Bone

Besure and test before and after at the same web site so you can compare apples with apples. Not all tests are the same and will yield different results. Nothing wrong with that other than you won't know if you obtained a speed increase or not. As long as you use the same website then your pretty assurded of getting a good comparrasion. I like throwing in a mix of tests at different times of the day or night.

Ping is a command to send to a server a small packet of info and the time(ms) it takes for that packet to return to your client(you), measured in milliseconds (ms). The lower the ms number the faster your connection is.

Latency is alittle more complex number measured in ms that calculates the up/dn speed ratio of the test that was preformed and a true measure of connection speed at "that" time. Latency counts more in real preformance than bandwidth does as shown by the flight example.

I would rather have a connection at 30ms latency and 500kbps bandwidth than a connection at 100ms latency and 1500kbps bandwidth. Your overall throughput would be much faster with the 30/500 connection.

Throughput= (total snd/rec kbps) / time
Higher is better.

T_Bone

Other than that, cross your fingers that WiMax or a similar next-gen system really does get rolled out.

Clearview isn't in the Phoenix area. Thanks anyway.

I ran into a guy last year with Wi-Max in Neveda. NV is one of the Wi-Max test States, 5 total???. I was using a different speed testing website at that time but his numbers were slow for what I was expecting from the sales hype.

I remember his ping time at 200ms as reported from the same site I was using. The problem with Wi-Max is the slow latency between towers, 100ms, but it's still huge increase than what I have now.

T_Bone