nice

my friend says he usualy gets about 255 "on good servers" .

According to DirecWay (and manuals), there are no circuits that can give you those kind of speeds!  I have the fastest and most expensive "plan" (Commercial), big ole .98m dish, DW6000 Commercial modem (blah, blah, blah) ....and here's my typical test result:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 945 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 748 KB)
Download Speed is:: 115 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 17 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 8.9 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?num=252525

So ...I would sure like to know what your settings are and what you did to tweak yourself to such (supposedly impossible) speeds my friend.  It appears that I am truly getting the short end of the stick here since I'm likely paying double what you are after investing over $1,000 (up front) for the new gear!  OUCH!  OUCH!  OUCH!

I would appreciate the assist!  lol....  I am "tweaked" as best as I can get (I think)  ie; Dr. TCP, XP Smoker Optimizer ....man there has to be a missing element in here somewhere.

Cheers!

The Reverend

Yeah ....I hear ya.  $1,000 down the tubes when I should have stuck with my DW4000 (which they won't allow me to recommission unless I wish to have TWO accounts ...how convenient for them eh)?  grrr..

I'm sending an e-mail-a-day to my telephone company until they "wire me" for DSL. I'm only 600 feet from the Trunk Line (and tempted to tie into the sucker myself)!  

Argh!  Used to have Road Runner but had to move.  Sure will be glad when the day arrives that I just stop paying DWay (and then see how long it takes them to figure out whatz going on).  heheh....

The problem with the DW6000 system is that THEY have control of "the box" (appliance), and since they don't know what they are doing ....there's your "fundamental problem."  I believe it is called incompetence?

Cheers!

oh and here is my speed - but again it may be 800 or lower next time I test (sat not know for consistant bandwidth hence flux in speed)

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1054 Kbps about 1.1 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)
Download Speed is:: 129 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 19 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 7.94 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=5QH20HW3E

When I had my DW4000 setup, (and didn't tweak it at all except for what XP-Smoker does to "optimise" connections),  I would usually 'pull down' about 900Kbps (and much lower at times of course).  I NEVER got over 1,000 much less over 1.5Mbps!! ....heheh...NO WAY JOSE!  

I just tested with the 579 test and here are my results with my DW6000 +.98m dish.Commercial Account (supposedly the fastest?)

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 937 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)
Download Speed is:: 114 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 17 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 8.98 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?num=252525

Considering I dumped over a grand into new equipment yet only saw an increase of 100Kbps (plus a FAP threshold of 800 instead of 500 ....I can't say that I am impressed (it's a ripoff!), but it beats nothing at all).  Still, for my DW4000 Pro setup I was paying $89.95 a month.  Now I'm paying $129.99 monthly ...so you get my drift on THAT aspect of it for sure.  Umm ...another plus is that the .98m dish won't 'rain-fade' on me ...never.  My 'smaller' dish would wash out if a dog piddled on the pole.

My DW4000 would average a Signal Strength of 88 (tops).  The .98m 'holds' onto a 97 most all the time.  (No amount of fussing with it will get me any higher ...but some claim they are getting a 100!  I dunno if that's possible or not.  I DO know that when this new system was first installed I we were able to get speeds of 2004 (using a laptop on a short cable right beside the dish), but when it was hooked into my house system it wouldn't get any faster than it is right now ...then eight hours after commissioning the "radio" blew (and during those eight hours it kept going slower and slower).  So!  Maybe there is something in there that can be tweaked without frying the LNB for some hotter speeds (which is out of my league)!

THE BEST I have ever seen with my new system is 1088 (averaged) ...which I suppose really isn't bad considering all the crap that's inherent with Satellite Internet right?  I too am deeply puzzled as to how the hey a DW4000 (and SMALLER dish) can exceed the speeds that "birds" like SAT-MEX5, G11 (and others) have "capped" ...but on the other hand anything electronic can be electronically "tricked" if you have the right resources to 'tap' ...to say the least!  I'm 'shooting' at G4R (Galaxy 4R).

I have tried all the "tweakers" out there.  Dr TCP has worked the best for this DW6000UG (Commercial) modem ...and all I did for tweaking was set the TIMESTAMP to "Yes" (everything else is at the default except that my MTU is 1500 (because that's what my router is set for as well).  Seems that when I try lower values I'll get lower results, so the DW6000 MUST default to an MTU of 1500 (there are no "specs" to be found on the sucker, but they'll turn up someday soon enough).

No biggie though, I was just curious how the hey a DW4000 could walk past me as if I had my brakes on.  C'est la vie say the old folks.....

Hey ...thanks for the replies.  I appreciate it!

Cheers!

"The Rev"