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Posted by Trevor Ylisaari on November 25, 2005, 11:34 pm
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My motorola surfboard modem (SB5101) has been giving me problems.
Very frequent lock-ups.
Used to only happen with torrent programs when there were too many peers.
Now it is happening all the time. Sometimes with only one window open to the
net.
I am running Win98SE
I have an idea why.
Just before this started happening, I made some tweaks to maximize my speeds
using iSpeed for Windows. (bumped my RWIN from 8712 to 23232, and adjusted
the TTL from nothing to 64)
I am now running at close to advertised speeds, but it's not a great trade
off to have to keep rebooting the modem by unplugging it.
I'd like to find which settings might be causing the lock-ups, so I can
eliminate them, while still not sacrificing too much speed.
Any suggestions on which setting might screw with my modem?
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Trevor Ylisaari
http://tylisaari.com/
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Posted by James Knott on November 26, 2005, 7:28 am
Trevor Ylisaari wrote:
> Any suggestions on which setting might screw with my modem?
>
Who owns the modem? If the cable company, call them and let them worry
about it. If your own, they might still be aware of some issues with it.
Bear in mind, however, that perhaps your modem is NFG and has to be
replaced.
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Posted by Trevor Ylisaari on November 26, 2005, 3:34 pm
> Trevor Ylisaari wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions on which setting might screw with my modem?
> >
>
> Who owns the modem? If the cable company, call them and let them worry
> about it. If your own, they might still be aware of some issues with it.
> Bear in mind, however, that perhaps your modem is NFG and has to be
> replaced.
>
Not really sure.
They supplied the modem to me free with a 1 year contract.
The modem has been working fine for about 6 months.
Until I made the tweaks.
I could change the settings back to what they were, but I really like the
faster speed.
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Trevor Ylisaari
http://tylisaari.com/
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Posted by James Knott on November 26, 2005, 2:00 pm
Trevor Ylisaari wrote:
> Not really sure.
> They supplied the modem to me free with a 1 year contract.
> The modem has been working fine for about 6 months.
> Until I made the tweaks.
> I could change the settings back to what they were, but I really like the
> faster speed.
>
Oh, I see. You violated the contract with your ISP, caused some problems
and then expect us to fix it. Sorry, you're on your own.
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Posted by $Bill on November 26, 2005, 3:22 pm
James Knott wrote:
> Trevor Ylisaari wrote:
>
>
>>Not really sure.
>>They supplied the modem to me free with a 1 year contract.
>>The modem has been working fine for about 6 months.
>>Until I made the tweaks.
>>I could change the settings back to what they were, but I really like the
>>faster speed.
>>
>
>
> Oh, I see. You violated the contract with your ISP, caused some problems
> and then expect us to fix it. Sorry, you're on your own.
He tweaked his OS settings - I doubt that's any form of violation.
He could try changing them one at a time and see what might be the cause
if it's a setting at all.
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