Your calulator page wont give me numbers to use in Cablenut

[WadeSansing]

http://www.j79zlr.com/cablenutXP2k.php

That's the page I'm talking about.

I am the network admin for a local ISP and I actually do have a 15M OS3 connecting me to the internet (Yes I know that rocks). Right now there is usualy about 10-12 meg of it available so I tried using 12288 for my values. It tells me "That would be nice, please enter a real download or upload value" Yes I uderstand that my connection is way beyond the normal limits of mankinds belief in how fast of an internet conenction you can have, but I do. Can you tell me what your max limit is, or could you simply unlock the limit? I'm seeing some latency here and there and I'm 99% sure that it's all due to the internet connections on the other side of my OS3, but I want to be 100% sure. Tweaking my connections to the max will help me test that out.

[j79zlr]

Eventhough the calculator gives that alert, it still calculates the values

To be honest, I've never tested cablenut with optical lines, so I'm not sure what values should be used.

[WadeSansing]

oh, duh.

I should've scrolled down instead of just reading the popup. Thanks.

[kevk]

I had exactly the same problem.

My dad upgraded to 10mbps broadband a few weeks ago and me just the other day.

I was annoyed about the "yeah right" pop up but didn't know that the settings were done anyway.

After applying the settings from the calculator I am getting speed test ratings I would expect to see from only one website:

1 site shows: 1087 Kbps
1 site shows: 9437 Kbps
1 site shows: 1.3mbps

Two website speed tests still give me just over 1mbps speed rating. I don't know why but i'm sure someone can explain it for me.

My modem config page clearly shows 10240000 bytes for download and 512000 for upload.

Why does only one website show what I should be seeing?

I used cablenut and the calc on this so I could maximize my bandwidth and get the best from it. If this is not going to be the case why should my dad and I pay for a 10mbps connection from our ISP?

P.S, has anyone else upgraded to around 10mps to find the same problems, or am I doing something wrong?

[j79zlr]

Don't have complete faith in speed tests. Are the majority of your downloads coming in at around 1000KB/s? I find this test to be fairly accurate: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

[robbsalzmann]

Don't have complete faith in speed tests. Are the majority of your downloads coming in at around 1000KB/s? I find this test to be fairly accurate: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Hi Joe,

Thanks for a great tool! I've used your suggested speed test, and 2 others. I have Comcast and my average across the three test sites, 4 tests each are:
U: 16880Kbps
D: 2290Kbps
L: 131ms

I'm a consultant, so I work in many different offices around the country. Most of the time I look forward to coming home because my network at the house is faster than what I experience at these businesses. Exceptions were Cisco & other Silicon Valley co.s, and some Gov't agencies - those guys all had insane speed to the desktop.

I would like to suggest that you change lines ~146 - 149 of cablenutXP2k.js to either raise the f.download.value or comment the whole thing out:

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if (f.download.value > 10000 || f.upload.value > 10000)
    {
    alert('That would be nice, please enter a real download and/or upload value')
    }


Regards,
Robb

[j79zlr]

I understand how to fix it but for now any connection over 10,000/1,000 is still very rare and as noted the calculator still works. It is just there as a warning that you are probably mis-entering your data.

[j79zlr]

Well since I got another complaint on it today, I upped the value to 100,000 for both upload and download connections. That should suffice for a few years at the least.