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Written By: Keith "Farrel" McClellan Posted: February 19, 2000 Tweaking Cable Modems If you were not already aware of this fact, Cable Modems are the same thing as Coaxial network cards (10base2), so checking out the LAN tweaking guide might be of benefit. For further information about optimizing your cable adapter for Internet TCP/IP connections, check out Speedguide.net. Some of their other guides have a few possibly questionable tweaks in them, but this particular one is extremely good. xDSL Tweaking xDSL (SDSL, ADSL, etc...) connections are all fundamentally direct network connections to the Internet using RJ-47 network cards (10baseT), so follow the same processes recommended for a LAN (Editor's note: the LAN tweak guide should be posted tomorrow, February 20, 2000), except for any information specifically given to you by your ISP. Modem/Connection Stability Issues There are a couple of things you can try to get an unstable connection to run properly. (a) Use a custom Init string to force the modem to connect at a lower speed. (b) Use the Standard Modem drivers (any speed, it doesn't matter they are all the same) instead of the drivers for you modem. (c) Enable Error Control under the Advanced Connection Settings for your modem (same place you input your Init string). File/Printer Sharing Issues File and Printer Sharing is not secure, and unless you are on a network you do NOT want to have it enabled. If you are on a network and there is no way you can set up a firewall of some sort, take the following steps: (a) Put a password on all of your drives (b) Set to Read Only - if you need to copy a file to a computer with read-only installed, go to the other computer and call the files from there instead of sending them. (c) Disable file and printer sharing when connected to the Internet if possible (to do this, use the file/printer sharing button in the Network applet). Conclusion I hope you find the changes I made to this guide helpful and enlightening. As always, feel free to email me with questions and comments. |
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