Line Amplifier

[KTA]

Hello All,

I have a couple questions. I picked up a digital line cable amp, bi-directional from radio shack(15-1171) to help speed up my ping rate and I figured the instructions would tell me where the best location to put it in line would be.I should have figured it would be very generic instructions. Can anybody offer me some assistance as to where the best location would be to put it and also any ideas on how to further tweak my systems(4) for optimum performance on cable internet. Running Win98SE on all units, LAN system is using a Netgear router with CAT6 line with a Motorola Surfboard modem and using RG 6/U cable directly from hookup to modem .Any help with info or links would be greatly appreciated. Thank's in advance.KTA

[christo418]

Your network will only go as fast as the slowest component, first of all (I'm hinting about your NIC). Your "digital line amplifier" looks like a repeater, which cleans up and regenerates the digital signal(it makes no decisions of its own, just does what it's supposed to do, and you really only need this in your network if you are going beyond specification in your cable length). Some other things to keep in mind if you are experiencing slow speed is the time of day that you're connecting (other users on the pipe), firewall bottleneck, even the weather can affect connection. Here's some tweaks:
http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/index.shtml

[Confused]

Another big thing with cable that they don't tell you is that the more users, slower it is. So if you live in a neighborhood with a lof on cable modem uses, your speed will suffer. But compared to the dial-up I had, well I'm pleased, just hope not many more get cable modems.
Chas

PS
Maybe Radio Shack will take unit back if you've been a good customer.

[glc]

Hmmm - in my experience ANY amplifiers in the cable line will knock out the Internet. The ONLY things that should be between the outside box and the cable modem are high bandwidth 1GHz+ passive splitters.