At 10:38 PM 4/22/2000, jim wrote:
>i have two computers tied into a cable modem provided by "media one."
>one computer, an older one running windows 95 with 48 megs of ram,
>works fine, and connects at around 650 kbps. the second computer,
>running win 98 with 128 megs of ram, only achieves a slightly better
>than dial-up connection (57 kpbs or 7kbytes/second). in trouble
>shooting, i first eliminated the "hub" and plugged the slow computer
>directly into the cable modem. same results. i replaced the connecting
>cable. same results. i replaced the network card (smc 10/100mbps fast
>ethernet pci card). still slow. i have verified all the network settings
>during several sessions with media one. they are stumped. i called smc,
>and they say there may be an issue with the motherboard...an asus p5a
>super7. is there any setting on the board, or change in the bios, that
>would prevent the computer from establishing a connection faster than
>around 57 kbps?


Hi Jim

<http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_registry.shtml>
has a section on Win98 registry changes for speeding up cable
modem connections.

They also have a webpage where you can download patches that will
make these changes (and others) automatically. See
<http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml>.

I have heard (from a fellow PCBUILD member) that using default
registry settings (which are usually optimized for dial up
connections) can result in very slow cable speeds...almost as
slow as dial up. Following Speedguide's advice can fix this.

Regards,
Bill

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