cable modems & network cards

[-]MoB{-ch/\os]

just read on a tweaking site that a good thing to do is get new drivers for your network card

as any body done this , and has it made any difference ??

[mancfrag]

y for me 3-com 905b and no it made no difference at all but was a major pain in the ass :)

[brattle]

The network card is the one part where there is the least bottleneck. I don't think it will make much difference......although I'm sure someone will come along to prove me wrong.

Schiz? :wink:

[SchizoidMan]

Hehe....yes? You called?

Umm.....I suppose it rarely does any harm to have the latest drivers, but the load that a 512K connection puts on even the humblest/oldest NIC is no sweat for it.

It's like buying a GeForce2 Ultra and playing 2D Tetris on it. Doesn't matter what GeForce drivers you use, you won't see any difference.

Basically, don't expect to see any noticable difference in speeds/pings.

[R1INCEWIND]

So what is the best way to improve the speed

[Calzor Suzay]

Move to the states and get a 10mb pipe for what we pay a half mb for here :E

How fast do you want it? and are we talking lower pings or faster downloads?

[R1INCEWIND]

Both

[Calzor Suzay]

Like I said how fast do you want it?
Pings as low as 20 and download speeds upto 60kb/sec not good enough for you?

[R1INCEWIND]

At the moment my average download speed is about 49kb on uk sites. On other sites can be a lot lower obviously ,so how do I speed it up. Don't matter how fast just faster.

[Calzor Suzay]

Well 49k/sec on average ain't bad but you could try some of the tweaks from this Speedguide (http://www.speedguide.net/) site but you could end up making it ten times slower and in the tradition of all good tweaking back that registry up before hand.