Page 1 of 2

DSL tweaks?

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:42 pm
by DangerPaul
I just moved and only have DSL available to me now. It seems slower than shit and downloads drop a lot, any thoughts?

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:19 am
by Tadpole
You suck.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:50 am
by Gidan
Were you on cable before? What speed DSL service do you have?

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:09 pm
by DangerPaul
I was on cable before and next to no one in my area had it, so speeds were insane. I have a 512MB DSL line now, and even NT will time out from time to time due to the slow connections.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:49 pm
by Gidan
Thats would be 512K not M. Yeah your speed will suck, you went from what was more then likely a 4M to a 512K connection. It probably feels like your back on dialup now.

You must be a good 15K feet our from a CO or atleast 18K from a RT.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:48 pm
by Tossica
512 DSL is fine. Do a tracert to one of the pages you are having trouble with and see what the problem is. I imagine there is a router choking along the way. Complain to your ISP about it.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:43 pm
by Tikker
DangerPaul wrote:I was on cable before and next to no one in my area had it, so speeds were insane. I have a 512MB DSL line now, and even NT will time out from time to time due to the slow connections.


that's some pretty ghetto dsl


I have 5m/640k dsl, with TV over the same line where I live

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:02 am
by DangerPaul
seriously... help, I need tweaks, 1 hour pR0n downloads are teh sux!

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:15 am
by Tikker
I'd just start doing some tracert to the pages you're trying to get to


512 should be more than adequate for 99% of the stuff you do


are you way out in the boonies?


With a profile like that, chances are you are, and you'll likely also be on an interleaved set up (ie, ping to your first hop will likely be in the 20-50ms range)

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:13 am
by Harrison
I'd blame it on distance to a node.

When I had DSL it was insanely fast. Pings were great in games too.

D/L speeds were around 300k/s, not amazing but good enough for almost anything.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:18 am
by runamonk
DangerPaul wrote:seriously... help, I need tweaks, 1 hour pR0n downloads are teh sux!


http://www.dslreports.com/tools

Check this out, there are some great forums there. I would start with the testing tools first.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:36 am
by 10sun
Harrison wrote:I'd blame it on distance to a node.

When I had DSL it was insanely fast. Pings were great in games too.

D/L speeds were around 300k/s, not amazing but good enough for almost anything.


DSL doesn't run off nodes.

-Adam

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:48 am
by DangerPaul
I am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY out in the boonies... I am just screwed and will have to stick to my imagination.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:01 am
by Gidan
Chances are then that you are running on fixed interleave and that 512 is maxing out your line. For your everyday web use, you will not really be bad off, you will really notice the difference on downloads though. You probably arn't going to be doing any downloads that go faster the 55-60K/sec

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:45 pm
by Tikker
10sun wrote:
Harrison wrote:I'd blame it on distance to a node.

When I had DSL it was insanely fast. Pings were great in games too.

D/L speeds were around 300k/s, not amazing but good enough for almost anything.


DSL doesn't run off nodes.

-Adam


eh?

sure it does

the DSLAM cabinet is also known as a node

It just doesn't mean the same thing as it does in a Cable network

Cable and DSL just have different aggregation points

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:58 pm
by Harrison
DSL can be an AWESOME connection.

It can also be absolute shit unfortunately.

I got lucky when I bought it at my sister's.

When I got it here a long time ago, it sucked asshole. (15k/s download speeds and pings of >75ms)

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:34 pm
by 10sun
Tikker wrote:
10sun wrote:
Harrison wrote:I'd blame it on distance to a node.

When I had DSL it was insanely fast. Pings were great in games too.

D/L speeds were around 300k/s, not amazing but good enough for almost anything.


DSL doesn't run off nodes.

-Adam


eh?

sure it does

the DSLAM cabinet is also known as a node

It just doesn't mean the same thing as it does in a Cable network

Cable and DSL just have different aggregation points


It is completely different from a cable modem node.

Chances are this is IDSL which is highly limited, however I thought the max speed of which was only 128?

It doesn't really matter if you are out 5 miles from the CO. You are fucked.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:39 pm
by Tikker
The fact they're different is irrelevant

He called the DSLAM a node, which is fine

It just means something different in the 2 networks

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:05 pm
by DangerPaul
10sun wrote:It doesn't really matter if you are out 5 miles from the CO. You are fucked.


That line right there is all I needed to see :( Anyone know anything about some good satelite ISPs? This timing out surfing the web on every other page is bullshit. I spend maybe 1/32 of the time I used to online anymore and would like to actually use the net when I am trying to.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:10 pm
by Tikker
satellite is the shitz


ping is like 200-500ms, wuwu




seriously tho nig, post some tracert

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:24 pm
by DangerPaul
Soon as it hits their LAN it times out, what a flaming piece of monkey shit, I am calling to cancel it tonight, AOL would be better than this crap.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:28 pm
by Tossica
DangerPaul wrote:Soon as it hits their LAN it times out, what a flaming piece of monkey shit, I am calling to cancel it tonight, AOL would be better than this crap.



Tell them to reboot their routers. Hehe.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:47 am
by Tikker
DangerPaul wrote:Soon as it hits their LAN it times out, what a flaming piece of monkey shit, I am calling to cancel it tonight, AOL would be better than this crap.



post your complete traceroutes foolman


they just might have icmp turned off within their network

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:27 am
by DangerPaul
How do I post them with XP sir? Soon as the traceroute is done, the window goes poof.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:49 am
by Harrison
Windows key + R

cmd

tracert destinationhere

viola, you win.