CableNut

[amb141]

For those of us who use CableNut to tweak internet settings in the registry, there is an "add-on" package available which tweaks many more of the settings and which seems (using a 56K dialup and Windows 98SE) to have made an improvement in websurfing speed.

If you are unfamiliar with CableNut (http://www.cablenut.com/), it is the only automated internet settings tweaker (MTU, TTL, RWIN, etc., etc., etc.) that, in my experience, seems to work.

alan

[LeRoi]

Hi Alan,

I agree that Cablenut improves a dial up connection quite a bit. Too bad the add on isn't for WinME. :huh:

[amb141]

Elwood

The 98_ME Folder in the CableNut Add-on is also for ME. Choose the "98 & ME 56K.ccs" to get the recommended settings and save them to the registry (after backing up the registry, of course.)

Scary thing is that this tweak, in additon to the CIP and ExtraDNS fiddlings which I have done recently has had a remarkable effect on IE6 -- which now "feels" just as quick as Firebird. Hmmmm. I wouldn't know why tweaking modem settings would do this -- it is the same modem regardless of which browser I use -- but it seems to have.

alan

[LeRoi]

Thanks Alan,

I think I can tell a difference already.

There are still good reasons not to use IE even if it were the fastest browser on the planet.