I'm told that if I change these values, it will improve my PC performance but I don't know where to go to change them.

Maximum Transmission Unit
Auto MTU Detection
Maximum Connections
Maximum 1.0 Connections

Can anyone help? Also, is there a danger of me screwing up my PC?

G.

Greystone, they are registry changes but to make it easy, download Cablenut. Ignore the ready-made ADSL profiles, just change TcpWindowSize to 38400 (assuming you have ADSL) and the two MaxConnections parameters to 16, and make all other fields blank. The latter one particularly will make a big difference, it is the maximum number of images etc. on a web page that IE can download at the same time. These parameters aren't dangerous. Also, if you have a router rather than a USB modem, ensure that the MTU size set in the router settings is 1500.

Thanks for that download Kayak. I have installed the program and changed the settings. I am soon to have my broadband upgraded to 2mg, four times my present speed. Am I correct in thinking that the settings will ave to be readjusted then?
Also if I do subsequently decide to uninstall the program will the registry settings revert to the original ones.
Cheers
opto

Kayak, BTW I forgot to mention, although my system was not slow it has speeded up somewhat

opto, ideally you should set your MTU to the best possible value by trial and error, and then calculate your RWIN (receive window) based on the average latency (transmission time) to the site you use the most. Some people spend a huge amount of time testing all of the various options and will become convinced that one particular value is best. The only thing is that everyone comes up with a different value even when on the same ISP. Any chosen value is by necessity a compromise and so I use 1500 and 38400. Any advantage gained by using a "better" value is only going to be a few percent, only on down/uploads rather than normal browsing, and only on some sites, making others worse. You are right that in theory the RWIN should be quadrupled if your connection speed quadruples, but there is doubt anyway as to whether setting it higher than 65535 is good or bad. If you really want to know more here is a detailed FAQ... http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/tweaks

No uninstalling Cablenut will not remove the settings as they are in the registry. However reinstalling it will clear the settings since the first thing the program does when run is to set them all to their defaults.

Thanks Kayak, a lot more to think about! Just by coincidence after downloading an upgrade to cablenet I lost my internet access.....and after a lot of messing about, upon ringing Telewest I found out that they had a major problem in Yorkshire with broadband rendering service unusable in some instances, and mine was one of them!! Anyway things back to normal now thank G.
I like Telewest especially as they have just increased bill monthly bill by 3 :-)

Thanks Kayak.

Seems to be quicker immediately.

Thanks SC for your recent reply.

I'm now up and running with a 2nd monitor without any problems.

Hi

Any suggestions as to how to trade when Broadband is out of action for days? See my comments of the Lurkers thread. recently I was told 5 days minimum. Once I have been down for 10 days after being struck by lightening. I know these are extremes but I would be interested to know what back ups, if any people have. I don't mind not trading for a few hours but not days. I have a spare ordinary phone line but Dial up is sooooooooooooo slow.
Di

I use Dial up and see no reason to change at the moment Di, the slower speed gives me more thinking time so I actualy view It as an advantage when trading. Things are different If one needs to download large files and such but for straight trading I think It's fine,give it a go or There's always the phone of course.

When I was in London I used to have a second telephone line on cable (dial-up) so that if BT failed I could always use that. If you're out in the sticks and you only have BT then there's not much you can do apart from connecting via a mobile as someone suggested on another thread. As you say even if you had two BT lines you wouldn't get any effective redundancy if they both come down the same line of telegraph poles. Personally I just close any open trades by telephone and take the rest of the day off.

It might be worth checking though whether there are any wireless broadband schemes in your area: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/qanda.asp?faq=wirelessisp#Q242.

Off topic.

I don't want to start a new thread for one question.

A friend wants to find out how many hits various websites receive in a day.

Other than the blindingly obvious way of ringing them and asking, is there any other way of finding out this information?

I was thinking of an organisation that keeps some sort of check for advertiser verifiacation purposes, or similar.

Appreciate any replies as I can't think of anywhere where this information may be compiled.

http://www.trafficranking.com/mainframe.htm collects this info.

it shows that Moneyam.com rank at 310,095 most popular in the world for instance. My own web site does not even show up even though it gets 500 hits a day!

Andy, it may be as simple as him emailing his website host to ask to have stats enabled. Look in the information provided by the host and they may well provide the facility. Otherwise there are plenty of sites like Addfreestats although they rely on some HTML being placed on each page of the site.

brian, Kayak,

Many thanks for your help.

He's interested in finding out the hit rates of similar sites to the one he's developing.

I have passed on the trafficranking site details.

Ah sorry I misread the question.

As well as brianboru's answer, if he using Windows 2000/XP he should be able to click 'related' at the top of his IE window and then 'avg. traffic ranking' to get Alexa stats. These services though can be wildly inaccurate though. They only measure the accesses by people who are careless enough to allow spyware onto their machines, which depending on the readership of the site can be a low or high proportion.

My Fuji digital camera has died and I'm looking for a replacement, however all the replacements use an XD memory card but don't I want to buy any new memory cards - will an SD card work in an XD camera?

Edit, just looked at some on the web and they're completely different :-((

SC,

Memory cards drop in price all the time. I bought eight CF cards yesterday at half the price I paid a couple of years ago!

My advice is to find the camera that suits you and bite the bullet with regard to some new cards - may even be a bargaining factor with whoever you choose to buy the camera from.

If you decide to buy the cards separately I recommend Crucial UK. Based in Scotland. Good prices and fast service.

TP

Thanks TP. Was coming round to that way of thinking, but it goes against the grain!!

I was about to sign on to AOL (dial up) when i got a pop-up saying that 'Rasautou' was attempting to sign me on.....i cancelled the pop-up and carried out a Spyware and virus scan but nothing was found.....anyone know what 'Rasautou' is? (I use Windows XP)
TIA