Tweaking
your modem
Last
Updated on September 18, 2000 by Thomas
McGuire - Page 5/10
Network
settings
This section will show you how to further enhance
your connection by editing the Network settings in Windows.
Go into the Control Panel & open Network.
First remove as many unnecessary components/protocols as possible. The settings shown
below will give you the best performance.
NOTE
– Removing the Microsoft client (Microsoft Family logon)
will mean that each time you try connect to the Internet you
will be required to enter in your login password. This
little inconvenience will however lower your ping time a few
ms.
Re-boot
once you've made your removals & re-enter the Network
control panel. Select Dial-up Adapter &
then hit Properties.
·
Under the Driver Type tab
select Enhanced mode
(32-bit & 16-bit) NDIS driver, this should already
be selected for you however.
·
Under the Bindings tab, Untick as many entries as you can, leaving only TCP/IP
marked.
·
Under the Advanced tab, for Enable Point to
point IP, select No.
·
For IP packet size select Large (This
should already be set as shown in the MTU,
TTL & DefaultRcvWindow section earlier on).
·
Record a log file.
Set
this to No unless
you want a your connection activity logged, which most of
you won't.
Use IPX header compression. Set
this to Yes if
you mainly browse the Internet/don’t play games online.
Setting it to No will reduce ping slightly in online games. Click Ok
once all those changes have been made.
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