Replies to post #1655 on Ask Vendit Off Topic Questions

[Vendit]

Slow Cable Also

Part of the problem may be that if you are not running a firewall you may have uninvited guests downloading programs from your hard drive.

I would suggest that you download the free version of zone alarm and set the security to high level, pop up alert when someone pings your modem, and "Internet lock" after a X number of minutes if you have not been at your PC.

tc can tell you anything you want to know about the program. He showed it to me.

http://www.zonealarm.com/



Reid

[badgolf]

dayniteshadow

Probably not much you can do about it. You might check at your cable isp for any problems in the area. There are a few tweaks you can do to your machine that can improve your speed but it won't be anything drastic. The main slowdown with a cable connection is having too many people within your neighborhood signed on. Cable bandwidth is shared by everyone in your node. In my node, when the Kiddies get home and early in the evening when a lot of people seem to be online there is a perceptable slowdown. This is another thing you can check with your cable company about. Complain loud and hard to them that your connection is not getting the speeds you are paying for and you just might get some help.

Here's a link to some helpful tips on speed and below that a couple of links for testing.

http://www.speedguide.net/index.shtml

http://www.testmyspeed.com/

http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm

[tc]

I would highly recommend ZoneAlarm to anyone with an always on internet connection. I'll be happy to help if you need it. As far as speed is concerned badgolf gave you the same info that I would have. :-)

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