My tweaks to boost speed

Krileon · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject: My tweaks to boost speed

I been playing with my new alltel evdo setup for over a day now. Just tweaking and trying new things for hours on end. I think I'm finally done as I'm tired of restarting my computer for the millionth time.

Here is what I did on WinXP. I can't account for other computers so.. sorry.

Steps:
1] Place the modem in the best possible spot you can. I used a simple USB extension cable (didn't get ANY loss.. pure gain)
2] Run TCP Optimizer
3] Click "Largest MTU"
4] Copy the value with before fragmenting
5] Click "General Settings"
6] Click "Custom" check box
7] Paste MTU in the box
8] Click "Modify All My Network Adapters" check box
9] Change connection speed to 2500
10] Make sure "MTU Discovery" and "Selective ACKs" is YES
11] Set "Max Duplicate ACKs" to 2
12] Apply changes
13] Restart

This is all I've done and I've doubled my speeds. I've tried all other tweaks and they don't seam to do a darned thing. Even the 65536 TCP change.. doesn't help or hurt.

Also for people worried about games. Don't bother tweaking if you're fine with your download/browse speeds.

Games run off UDP not TCP. You have nothing to worry about. No tweak in the world is going to help your games. Purely dependent on the server you're connecting to.

All tweaks are just to increase browse speed and file downloads, etc. They will NOT help your games latency!

If anyone else has anymore tips of Alltel UM150 EVDO service please let us know.

greymouser · EVDO Newbie Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 2