Internet speed booster
- Thread starter Pc_Pimp
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lol. With all due respect, it's a marketing gimmick directed towards noobs. Even your own ISP has offered you something like this. Usually, it's very intrusive, changes your home page, hard to uninstall, blah, blah, blah. Stay away from any company that tells you they can "boost your internet speed" with an application. Especially dial up.
hermeslyre
VIP Member
you could try something like TCPoptimizer. It well, optimizes your TCP/ip setting, and it might make the connection faster, increases the MTU limit among other things. There are various other tweaks you can apply to XP to increase throughput, such as taking away certain restrictions M$ applies to make the internet "safer". The amount of open/half-open connections is only ten per Second in SP2 XP, opposed to over 65,000 pre-SP2, for example. Increasing this number only impacts such operations that require a large number of connection, online gaming and P2P, are two such.
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497
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... So doing that makes you more vulernable to trojans/viruses?
If so, I personally don't think it's worth it
Trizoy
VIP Member
... So doing that makes you more vulernable to trojans/viruses?
If so, I personally don't think it's worth it
Please, all that malware an virus stuff only gets on your pc if your doing ad stuff on the net. Dont download virus.exe or pron video and you will be fine. Seriously...
chrislo
New Member
Are you crazy? Those speed boosters are snake oil, they do nothing for you. The only way to get higher speed without spending more money is to hack your modem (Dial Up need not apply). I heard of some people hacking their cable modems and it will give you a huge jump in speed but if your cable company finds out they will likely permanently terminate your service or worse.
hermeslyre
VIP Member
... So doing that makes you more vulernable to trojans/viruses?
If so, I personally don't think it's worth it
No, read the link, it explains it. M$ did this in case one was infected, with a "sender" virus, or something, a virus that uses your machine to reproduce itself and send a copy to other networks the world round. It would limit the amount of computer you could connect to, supposedly reducing the amount of computer you can infect. This is completely backwards thinking. If you're looking for a program that opens a computer up for attack, or makes a computer more vunerable to attack, look no farther than M$ activex, or DCOM. This program has gone through so many different revivisions and name-changes, it ain't even funny. And in each form people hated it.
No Pron? *whimper*
TCPoptimizer might be described thus, by certain people, but the open connections tweak does help tons. Fix the software side, before hardware, I think.
Hacking your modem, or stealing out here merely gets you a slap on the wrist. Our neighbors are constantly breaking into the Comcast boxes, on the side of the apts. and turning their house on. It's because C0mcast hooks all the apartments up, and just turns it off in the boxes, till you subscribe. They come out, turn 'em off, have a hissy fit, then leave. I don't do it though, 'tis dishonest!
chrislo
New Member
TCPoptimizer might be described thus, by certain people, but the open connections tweak does help tons. Fix the software side, before hardware, I think.
Hacking your modem, or stealing out here merely gets you a slap on the wrist. Our neighbors are constantly breaking into the Comcast boxes, on the side of the apts. and turning their house on. It's because C0mcast hooks all the apartments up, and just turns it off in the boxes, till you subscribe. They come out, turn 'em off, have a hissy fit, then leave. I don't do it though, 'tis dishonest!
Does this TCPoptimizer just make your connection work as it suppose or will it make your connection faster? What I used back when I used a wired router to fix it was WinSockFix.
Back when I lived in NY and used Cablevision's Optimum Online they sent out letters about hacking your modem and said you would get terminated permanently if you were caught.
hermeslyre
VIP Member
It doesn't claim it makes a faster connection, It simply claims it optimizes the TCP/Ip setting for possible improvements. I've used it, haven't noticed an improvement, but others claim to. *shrugs* It's not like winsockfix, obviously, because all that app does is reset the DNS' .LSP files, making it run like normal.
chrislo
New Member
The only reason I compare it to Winsockfix because it was the only software that did anything for my connection. I don't remember the specifics but I wasn't getting access to the internet so I used this software and it fixed the problem. TCPoptimizer I got no idea what it is, but since Winsockfix was the closest thing to it I used I compared it to Winsockfix.
My point is a software fix is unlikely to make your connection any faster than it is. It might help you get the speed your ISP promises you but it won't make it faster. The only thing I know that will is hacking your modem and that is illegal.
My point is a software fix is unlikely to make your connection any faster than it is. It might help you get the speed your ISP promises you but it won't make it faster. The only thing I know that will is hacking your modem and that is illegal.
hermeslyre
VIP Member
Oh, yeah, sure. I didn't mean it would give you more bandwidth, that's the ISP's bag. Even so, there is one alternative to hacking that gives better results.. and that's paying your ISP for a better connection speed. 
I know, totally incomprehensible, they charge to much as it is!
I know, totally incomprehensible, they charge to much as it is!
hermeslyre
VIP Member
Ditto, I have a 4 megabit connection, equates to fast browsing, and a half meg download speed. good enough. One of my old bosses lived in an upity neighborhood, he had a Fios connection at 54mbps! Talk about overkill..
Pentium_ZERO
New Member
all thoose boosters are fake! Its better to get a faster dsl or cable. (yes it is moore money, but well spent money!)