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Does anyone know if the so called "speed boosters" and "uncappers" actually work? I have had my @Home connection for about a year now and have noticed alot of lose of bandwidth, because there are alot of people signing up in my area. I would like to improve my speed. Any suggestions?
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check speedguide.net they have a special section on broadband connections. The biggest imporvement I found was the registry setting that allowed me to connect to the same site a greater numbr of times (great when getting big numbers of sharehouse.nbci.com pr0n).

anyways, have a look and see what you think.

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Heh, get DSL.

Seriously, you're running into a fundamental problem with cable, in that it is shared bandwidth (which I assume you know). More than likely, the "uncappers" et all give little or no help. After all, you can't make the total @home available bandwidth larger with software, AFAIK.

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I know that cable is shared bandwidth. However they don't offer DSL in my area. Plus I have read some bad things about DSL.

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that shared thing is bull i have a lot of people in my area and mine hardly ever slows down and when it does it doesent slow down to dsl speed thats like saying "their car goes 600 milse an hour but some times it only goes 400 miles an hour, so you should buy our car wich goes 200 miles an hour all the time.

plus i know plentu of people with dsl and they have plenty of ping problems, and their servers go down alot more than @home

any way the download speeds arnt the issue its usualy the server that's the slow side of the connection, its the uploads, witch is only about 15 k/sec, and wich are too slow in my opinion. i would love to host files from my house. fuck that cap!

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The "shared bandwidth" argument is marketing propaganda. It's all a matter of where the bandwidth is shared.

With DSL, your bandwidth is shared at the ISP. You're still competing with all the other DSL customers for connectivity.

With cable, your bandwidth is shared at the headend (ISP), but also on the cable plant. This usually isn't a problem since cable plants usually have way, way more bandwidth than the headends.

In certain cases , of course, the "shared bandwith" argument holds, but it's not usually a factor.

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I'm not to friendly with the idea of putting cable (for my computers, anyway) in my house, and I've been thinking DSL (but it's not avaible yet), but I have heard many bad things about it... I'm starting to get ticked, cuz I want a reliable boardband connection, that'll work how I want it... I'm sick of this 56k line.

So, what do you guys recommend. i'm on the parents dollar (hey, most 15 year olds are), and they're cheapo's, so what's something good for budget and speedy, good, access?

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I am also on the parent's dollar. That is why I haven't really complained alot about the slow downs every now and then. LordBrandon: are you seriously only getting 15 KB/s upload from @Home. I have heard alot of people saying this but I am uploading no at about 120 KB/s. It is just that my download speeds are not what they used to be. Oh well... I'll be going to college next year anyway. T3s here I come.
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You'll change your tune if you go to virginia tech. I knew some guys there, and for two years they had pathetic downloads and 300 pings to any and every game server. Maybe it's improved, but maybe you need a backup plan.
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me bow down to my uni connection

4 sattelite uplinks giving me about 1.5meg/sec D/L even when all the other 900 odd computers are using it as well

Damn i want ADSL over here in uk 8meg/sec down your standard phoneline RAA

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