Boosting your cable modem

[artsapimp]

I was told if I put 2 or 3 cable splitters on the cable line just before it connects to my modem it will boost my speeds to 3 or 4 meg downloads. Has anyone ever heard of this? If not, does anyone know of a way to make sure I'm getting the most out of my cable line? Thanks

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[Prader Willi]

Disregard

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[artsapimp]

You mean kilobytes right? I'm not going to pay for cable for 300 kilobits am I?

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[Prader Willi]

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[This message has been edited by Prader Willi (edited 05-12-2000).]

[god_father7]

isnt ispeed made fore modem users only?? - i just had a look at their web site and thats what it said
http://www.hms.com/default.asp

look for urself and u decide ;p

[mairving]

Art, I have never heard of doing this. I personally can't see how it could boost your speed. Let me know though.

[Prader Willi]

God_Father is correct. With Ispeed and a Cable Modem-- connection speed maxed at 380. I changed the Windows Registry back to default settings and now my connection speed is 840.
Thanks for the help! I've deleted the misleading info in my previous postings.

[artsapimp]

The person who told me this said his friend is 3rd tier support for Road Runner and told him that. I will try it and will let you know how it goes.

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[shado]

I cant see how adding splitters would help speed. Everytime you split the line it loses signal and eventually you end up with a very weak signal and alot of noise. This could make the cable modem non functional.
I'd be interested to hear an explanation if it does work.

[Interrupt]

One thing that would speed up your cable modem is pick a different gateway.

Cable ISP's enjoy seting everyone off on a default gateway which is so much slower than the real one they use.

From tweaking the Registry, Changing gateways, and doing other things. I have helped my friends cable modem go from 300k a second to 1.2 meg a second. (Which you can only get that if your downloading from a T3, or OC3 so far as I can tell. Just depends on the traffic I suppose.

[artsapimp]

I changed the default receive window size to 6532 (or something like that) and it didn't seem to change anything. I went to MSN's speedtest and it said 5 megs 3 out of the 4 times I tested it. The other time it said 2 megs. I am happy with that.

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[reghakr]

I just had my cable modem put in today. I'ts totally false that splitters will boost performance, they'll do just the opposite!
reghakr

[artsapimp]

I found out the reason for it speeding up the cable modems is because they need to be used between 0 and -10 db to work. The more splitters used the closer to -10 you get. The closer to -10 you are the faster you will work.

This is just what the tech said would be the only reason for it working. He had never tried it and neither have I.

If you are already at -10 then it would do the opposite.

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