I read somewhere that you can speed up your broadband connection by playing about with the " packet scheduler " . Does anyone know about this as I am no computer tech

cheers

 

Edited to remove information deemed questionable.

Regards,
Shaun.

[Edited by Shaun - 1/19/2003 8:48:08 PM]

 

I had a call from a guy at BT asked if I wanted my broadband access speeded up Told me to go to this site and download the Broadband Network Optimiser. If you are with BT might be worth a try. Has made a difference to my connection speed.

try Here...

 

umm, hope the info I posted didn't bother anyone.

 

you can play around with the MTU size

there are several utils out there which will make the necessary registry changes, or you can do it manually

other that I wouldnt really bother with any of the other kind of increase your bandwidth progs

Steve

 

http://www.cybertweak.co.uk/

 

Cheers for that guys , I`ll give it a go

k

 

I think Pete Townsend is selling quite a speedy modem...

BB

 

lol

 

cybertweak

Just tried it... Anyone else and what about the last setting?? enabled or disabled??? How the hell do I find out!!

Yes it seems faster

 

What do you mean, 'seems faster'. Is it 'actually' faster?

 

My connection is deffo faster. You can test your connecction speed using this utility after running the tweak to speed up your connection

http://www.vantage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

 

just run the test and mine seems to be running pretty well.