2 routers, 1 modem, all 3 provide problems

[lordy]

Originally Posted by hokkers999

Don't EVER run crappy stuff like TCP Optimizer. Do you really think a bit of software knows more than the hundreds of electrical engineers who designed Ethernet?

They arent the same electrical engineers that wrote the Microsoft TCP stack are they? Thought not?

Also Ethernet != TCP/IP

[jaycee]

Yes - the power supply should be specced at something like 10V 1.2A. In practice, the modems arent that picky as they regulate that voltage down to 5v and 3.3v inside anyway. It was quite common to use the Terayon Terajet power supplies with the Ambit modems.

A friend of mine runs his cable modem from a wire he's tapped inside his server PC, that provides 12V. Works perfectly fine

[hokkers999]

Originally Posted by lordy

They arent the same electrical engineers that wrote the Microsoft TCP stack are they? Thought not?

Also Ethernet != TCP/IP

I presume not, else it would work properly

I was only pointing out that when it gets to your equipment Ethernet DOES = TCP/IP, unless of course *your* pc is running a WAN protocol

[lordy]

Originally Posted by hokkers999

I presume not, else it would work properly

I was only pointing out that when it gets to your equipment Ethernet DOES = TCP/IP, unless of course *your* pc is running a WAN protocol

Besides TCP/IP, you have UDP, ICMP , ARP, IPSec and multicast stuff ive never quite understood (Layer 3/4) all running around on your Ethernet cables (Layer 1/2)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

I suspect the Microsoft look a long time to write a decent TCP/IP stack that works well with broadband AND LANS, (Maybe Vista?) so there is good reason for TCP/IP Optimiser, as most Microsoft TCP/IP is probably optimised for Corporate LANS. Broadband wasnt really in demand whilst the Microsoft TCP Stack was being developed. Home users were dial-up.

Vista *I think* now has a self-tuning TCP/IP stack, as does Linux.