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To: Pruguy who wrote (1613)1/27/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon  Read Replies (1) of 5843
 
Hello Pruguy,

> can you tell me hgow to speed up the stream...my line seems to be
> running at around 50% I have a 200mhz cpu with 48 ram of memory, if
> that matters.

Hmm ... no real way to tell you how to "speed up the stream" ... if you are seeing these drops, then it tells me that you have a bottle neck in the Internet upstream from you.

The first thing would be to upgrade to the highest speed modem supported by your ISP. (i.e. 56k v.90?) But before you do that you might talk to some other customers of the ISP and find out if they get better performance. Also, watch the speed that your modem connects at. I consistantly get 50.6k connections out here in the boonies ... but it took about 10-12 service trips from the phone company before they could get me a clean pair. I just kept complaining about static on the line ... ;-)

Even if you get a good connection with your ISP, and are using the high speed modem, there is still the chance that the ISP has oversold his capacity ... this has been fairly common with smaller ISPs ... a T1 can only handle about 24-28 56k modems at a time if they are all streaming ... I've seen ISPs that hook a hundred+ modems to a T1 ... when the streaming starts the T1 will be the choke point.

The last step is finding out who your ISP connects through. What backbone provider do they buy their service from? If they are buying from another small ISP, then you might be in trouble ...

It's a very technical process of "walking" up the stream to find who might be the bottleneck ... ;-)

Scott C. Lemon
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