Oh, David, David, David! How sad. You obviously have not been reading the
various threads concerning this very subject that have permeated the list over
the last two months.
You are out of luck my friend, and except for somewhat faster download speeds,
the cable modem on a 2300 is plain overkill. Like a jet engine installed on a
bi-plane, you might go a little faster, but the plane will fall apart before
you can fly as fast as a 747.
The 2300's internal bus just can't handle the modern web, it has a 33MHz
interface with external data, so a bottleneck is quickly reached when 200KB/s
of data comes flowing down the pike. There is nothing you can do to change
this. It's just how it is with the 2300. I hope you have a faster computer to
take full advantage of that cable modem.
I must say I am impressed with your cable modem company's ability to come up
with a Nubus card for installation. Enjoy the extra speed boost over a 56k
modem and the freedom from not tying up an additional phone line and try not
to think about you neighbor's Windows experience too much. I would venture to
say that your neighbor's Windows PC is of the Pentium II or III generation,
running about 400 MHz or faster and was purchased within the last two years.
The 2300 is the end of a very long line based on 68030 processors (think Intel
386) and debuted in 1995. It is a dinosaur by today's standards (well O.K.,
maybe Cro-Magnon man)!
David Linker wrote:
> I just got a cable modem for my 2300 in a dock. The installers put a NuBus
> ethernet card in (Farallon), and we were up and running.
>
> The problem is that the speed is much slower than expected. Typical
> download speeds with IE were 8KB/sec! I tried a bunch of changes, and got
> the speed up, but not as high as it could be. By shutting off RamDoubler
> and virtual memory, and processor cycling, as well as reducing the disk
> cache to 128K, the speed went up to 25KB/s, which is still far below what I
> would expect with a cable modem. A neighbor with a Windows machine gets
> >200KB/s.
>
> Anybody have an idea of what to expect, or how to speed this up?
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