[Gothminister]

Ok ill make this short and sweet.

I use a program called tweakmaster to "tweak" my net connection, it has made my 28k a bit faster.

I like it, it leaves a small memory footprint and its a 30 day trial but with a well placed keygen that can be yours perminantly.

http://www.tweakmaster.com/


Rhapsody

[Larred]

I would be careful about mentioning warez/keygens on here, most people frown on them bigtime, and the one's that don't are already aware of what is out there... Just a FYI... ;)

[Gothminister]

Thanks for the heads up, im too used to the BBS boards.

[pentachris]

When I was on dial-up, I used the last freeware version of ispeed (http://www.hms.com/download.asp). It worked OK - not a breath-taking improvement or anything. I think most of the registry tweaks people use to try to speed up their connection are placebic in effect. You've done everything you can, so you feel like your speed has increased.

(If "placebic" wasn't a word before, it is now. Pencil it into your dictionary. ;) )

The best thing you can do for your dial-up connection is have a good drop to your house, have good connections and wires inside your house, and use as little wire as possible between your modem and phone jack. If you've got a splitter so you can have a phone plugged into the same jack, remove it. I've heard that any cordless phones you may have hooked up in your house can steal some performance - not sure how true that is, though.

Also, if you're running Win 95, 98 or 98SE, I'd suggest getting the DUN 1.4 upgrade (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q285189) if you haven't already dun so. :)

[Gothminister]

Well, all I know is it boosted my download rate and upload rate by nearly 1 k per second, so I know it does something, as for the good lines in the house, tiz the reason why I only connect at 28k, ill investigate the cordless phone idea.

Rhapsody

[Libertarian]

You can improve your dial-up performance slightly by:
removing IPX/SPX and NetBUI from the dialer's protocols
unchecking the "log on to server in the dialer setup
getting a program that resets your MTU to a better performing size (usually 576)
Resetting the init string for your modem to a better string (find it on your modem's site or a BBS) You can try ATF, ATF1, ATF2 or even ATZ. These are reset strings that call builtin settings.