Went from 116kps to 1.8 mps with TCPOptimzer???

[V8TOYTRUCK]

I checked my bandwidth on Bandwidthplace.com, and it was at 116kps. There was a link to a site where I DL'd a program called TCPOptimzer, after installing this 400k program, now I am DLing at 1.8??? That drastic of a change with a program?

[K A]

I forget... Are you on a Cable Modem or DSL?

There are tweaks to the registry that can be done to enhance your speed. Typical Win 95/98 was never setup with networking in mind, so they are optimized for a dialup modem with latency in mind.

Whereas on a CM/DSL the latency is a lot smaller and your connection can benefit by a few tweaks. WinNT/XP should already be optimized good out of the box.

[Gimpy00Wang]

To put it very, very simply...you cannot download faster than you are limited by your ISP. I'm sure James S can back me up on this as he seems to be quite the intelligent fellow. Just for kicks, I downloaded that program you mentioned and put it on a Win2k box I have at home. All tests I ran both with and without it enabled yielded the same results as I suspected. It's kind of like being on a dialup and going from ~56kbps to 1mbps. It's just not feasable.

Now, I know some cable companies limit bandwidth on the client-end at the cable modem. Those types of limits can be cracked. But, if they're limiting the bandwidth on their end, you can't go any faster than they're going to allow you.

- G!mpy

[Albany Tom]

If you screw up the duplex setting on a 100baseT network, you can easily destroy your bandwidth. Everything still works, just at something between 1/1000th and 1/20th the speed. I don't know that this is what that software does, but that would do it.

If you're running a newer operating systems - Windows NT4, 2000, or XT, there really aren't any settings to tweak, other than making sure the network card is setup properly. Older OS's - 95, 98, Me, may benifit from tweaking.

[V8TOYTRUCK]

I am running ME, that could by why I saw such a good benefit. I don't know how it works but I like it!

[Floating Spots]

If you want a second opinion, try here: http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Its another free test site.
Maybe the last one looks for that program installed?
Probably not, your link scored me very close to my above link.

That seems like a large jump.
It would be interesting to know why.