Hey John
Speeding Up Browser-Based Brokers
What they listed was a lot mostly wrong mumbo-jumbo. If you have two phone lines and modems then yes you will get a faster connection. There are lots of programs that will do this.
If you don't have to phone lines this program will not help you as much as they suggest since you are limited by a theoretical limit. I will give you two trick that will speed up the net.
1. Download Powertools for IE4 from the microsoft site. This will give you a toggle image button on your task bar. When you go to a site that is slow, hit the toggle image button and images will not be downloaded. Took me a while to figure out why I couldn't see 1-year charts in CSW one day... I had accidently hit the toggle image button.
2.Change the registry setting called MaxMTU.
MTU stands for Maximum Transmission Unit. In TCP/IP networking, this setting defines how many bytes are in each packet that moves across the network. Ideally, each packet flows smoothly from one stop to the next on the Internet; however, if any portion of the network (routers, Ethernet cards, and so on) uses physical frames that are smaller than the incoming packets, those packets will be chopped up en route and reassembled at their destination, causing performance slowdowns.
By default, the Windows 95 MTU is 1,500, which is appropriate for Ethernet-based networks. When you dial in to an ISP, your data goes through a router that uses the Internet standard MTU setting of 576. The mismatch in settings guarantees that your 1,500-byte packets will be fragmented into smaller packets of 576 bytes or less, resulting in less-than-optimal performance. You can change this setting in Windows 95 manually, and there are dozens of pages on the Internet with step-by-step instructions for making the change.
Or you could download TweakDun, from Patterson Design Systems, which lets you adjust the MaxMTU setting and other dial-up connection settings using a well-organized graphical interface. Although these adjustments won't affect the speed of your dial-up connection, they can improve the efficiency of data transfers, especially when downloading large files. You'll find the latest version of TweakDun at
pattersondesigns.com.
The program you mentioned may or may not do this. I couldn't tell from the webpage.
Windows 98 does a far better job than its predecessor of optimizing TCP/IP transmissions, and it also lets you change the setting without hacking the Registry. By default, all PPP connections at speeds below 128K use an MTU of 576. At higher speeds, Windows 98 uses an MTU of 1,500.To adjust these settings, open the Network option in Control Panel, select Dial-Up Adapter, and click on the Properties button. Click on the Advanced tab, and select the IP Packet Size entry in the Property list. The Automatic setting shifts MTU size to match the connection speed; choose Large to set MTU size to 1,500, Medium for 1,000, or Small for 576. For all but the most performance-obsessed dial-up users, there's no need for utilities like TweakDun with Windows 98.
Best Regards
KEITH
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