bill...many thanks.  after several weeks of replacing everything and bonding
with media one "customer support", that small program did the trick.  i now
get cable modem speed.  i called media one today to brief them...i'm not
sure i "connected" with the tech support guy i talked with, but i suspect i
am not the only one calling in with this problem.

just a quick note here to the group to tell you bill's tip did the trick.
thanks to all!

jim wishner/minnesota.
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---- Original Message -----
From: Bill Cohane <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] network problems.


> 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
>
> <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>.
>
>

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