DSL and Tweaking Windows 98SE/2000 Prof

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JAF

I have Verizon's "premium" DSL service at home with a nominal delivery rate
of about 3300 Kbps at the output of Verizon's router. Verizon sent a
telephone lineman to my home to confirm that the router was outputting at
that nominal rate, when I complained about the following.

I have a Dell Dimension 500 laptop (Pentium III) running Windows 98SE
connected to the Verizon router via Ethernet cable. Per Verizon's speed test
run over the Internet on this PC, the PC is receiving data at a nominal 768
Kbps, which is the delivery rate for Verizon's bare bones DSL service.

The Verizon router has a wireless radio to which I connect a Dell Inspiron
7500 Pentium III laptop (running Windows 2000 Professional) via a Motorola
wireless card. Per Verizon's speed test run over the Internet on the laptop
PC, the laptop is receiving data at a nominal 1500 Kbps. When I connect the
laptop via an ethernet card and cable, the receiving rate remains a nominal
1500 Kbps.

I understand that Windows can be tweaked to improve the receiving rate but
this involves changing the Windows registry and I am not fully informed on
all of the required changes for either Windows 98 or 2000.

Verizon tells me that they do not provide help in the tweaking of Windows
and that I should be receiving data at about (or at least) 70% of the nominal
3300 Kbps rate, which is what Mossberg sort of predicted in his WSJ column
last month respecting the 768 Kbps DSL service.

Have you come across the kind of problem I am experiencing? Can you
recommend any books, software, etc. re tweaking Windows to improve the rate
I'm receiving data?

Thank you for your advice and help,

JAF
 
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Echo S

JAF said:
I understand that Windows can be tweaked to improve the receiving rate but
this involves changing the Windows registry and I am not fully informed on
all of the required changes for either Windows 98 or 2000.
Have you come across the kind of problem I am experiencing? Can you
recommend any books, software, etc. re tweaking Windows to improve the
rate
I'm receiving data?

Sorry, I sure haven't. This newsgroup is for Office, not Windows, although
I'm sure if anyone knows the answer to your question, they'll post it.

You'll generally get better information if you post your question to a
relevant newsgroup.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx has
an alpha list of groups available in the MS web interface.
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

JAF,

This has nothing to do with Office. I'd suggesting posting to an appropriate
Win 98 newsgroup. There are several that are still running.
 
V

VManes

Try some of the tests and tools at:
http://www.dslreports.com/tools

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let's watch what happens."
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I have Verizon's "premium" DSL service at home with a nominal delivery rate
of about 3300 Kbps at the output of Verizon's router. Verizon sent a
telephone lineman to my home to confirm that the router was outputting at
that nominal rate, when I complained about the following.
<snip>
Verizon tells me that they do not provide help in the tweaking of Windows
and that I should be receiving data at about (or at least) 70% of the
nominal
3300 Kbps rate, which is what Mossberg sort of predicted in his WSJ column
last month respecting the 768 Kbps DSL service.

Have you come across the kind of problem I am experiencing? Can you
recommend any books, software, etc. re tweaking Windows to improve the rate
I'm receiving data?

Thank you for your advice and help,

JAF
 

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