percepts

I'm still using an ADSL PCI internal modem and have recently had serious speed problems.
Since my modem is good for 8Mbps and all I can supposeedly get where I live is upto 8Mbps, I've never seen the point of getting a router. It would mean twice as much wire as I don't want wireless and I'd need an ethernet extension to upstairs where my office is. Already have phone extension up there.

I've actually done a bit of reading on TCP settings and found a few Tcp configuration tools. But reading Microsofts site and various other sources, the only thing you really need to set for max speed is, TcpWindowSize and EnablePMTUDiscovery which overides any MTU you may enter in the registry with what it discovers when you connect. And besides if you don't use EnablePMTUDiscovery it will default to 576 which is too slow. And since MTU is set automatically and is potentially variable each time you connect, all the recommended calcs for TcpWindowSize are worthless unless you happen to connect using MTU 1500 (or whatever the recommended value is for your modem/router)

So I'm wondering what other Tcp settings people have used to max out throughput or whether you just used the Microsoft defaults.

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Vger

You put a micro-filter on the 1st phone socket you use downstairs - the nearest to the main socket. Not on the main socket itself, unless it happens to also be the 1st phone socket.

Then you put another micro-filter on the upstairs extension (and any other extensions), and you connect the router to the upstairs extension. The only extra cable is limited to upstairs.

For historical reasons we had our adsl set up this way on our home phone line, whilst we had an entirely separate office line. When we changed adsl providers it made it easy to switch - no need to get a MAC address and switch providers, we just ordered adsl on our office phone and cancelled adsl on our home phone.

Vger

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percepts

You lose a little speed with long phone extensions. Not much but it does make a difference.
But its peoples Tcp Settings I'm really curious about.

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