How can I improve serving and improve performance speed anyone opinion would be greately appreciated.:D:D:D

[b:f5f2feda99]I'm running a Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.5Ghz 256mb RDRam and planning on upgradeing to another 500mb RDRAM, I have three hard drive's a 6GB, 8GB and a 40GB and upgradeing to 100 GB over the christmas, ADSL connection, ADSL Modem is a Alcatel Speed Touch PCI internal 256/Kbps Down and 64/Kbps up[/b:f5f2feda99]

I dont think that I'm leaving out anything but if anyone need's more info let me know. :cool: :rolleyes: :cool:

Megaduce .... Looking at your specs, the only way that you can improve your serving is if you are able to get a faster connection and better upload speeds. You can probably improve your system performance by setting up a raid, but as far as I see you need a much faster connection.

Cheers M8!!!

Which is a better Raid Hardware or software I'm thinking both would be better but cant afford a hardware Raid right now maybe next yean for sure. maybe I can get a good copy of a software Raid from one of the peeps Here I'll wait a while and see if anyone else has anything to say then I'll post a request thanx for the info dude

Hi Megaduce, the Alcatel Modem is your biggest problem. There are some new ADSL modems coming out (external ones that you can do things with). Linksys has a modem and D-Link list (3) on their Website. Have a look at /http://www.dlink.com for a DSL-300 modem. It has some nice features. Also if you want to run a Server it realy should be a separate computer. Could even be an old PII 300 Mhz or something like that.

Hey thanks crowdirt I went to the site and look at the spec and I like the modem I'm going to purches it as soon as possible meaning before the new and then next year I'll get one of the firewall box's also thanx guyz for the info:cool: :cool: :cool:

Hey Crowdirt........


[quote:e2bd2a118d][i:e2bd2a118d]Originally posted by Crowdirt [/i:e2bd2a118d]
[b]Hi Megaduce, the Alcatel Modem is your biggest problem. There are some new ADSL modems coming out (external ones that you can do things with). Linksys has a modem and D-Link list (3) on their Website. Have a look at /http://www.dlink.com for a DSL-300 modem. It has some nice features. Also if you want to run a Server it realy should be a separate computer. Could even be an old PII 300 Mhz or something like that. [/quote:e2bd2a118d]

Can you tell me what you mean by "the Alcatel Modem is your biggest problem. There are some new ADSL modems coming out (external ones that you can do things with"

I have Speed Touch USB ADSL modem and would love to find a way of "uncapping" it's speed if it was possible...

this is verry intresting to here Grzyb because the Speed Touch USB ADSL modem option is also availabe from my ISP

Hi Folks, if there is a Speed Cap applied to your ADSL Connection, that usually is done from the "Providers" end. Most ADSL modems can go up to 8 MBits per sec. down and 640 KBits up. The New D-Link modem is like that also. It has some nice Monitoring features though, which would provide better info. on what is going on.

My reference to the Alcatel was that the Modem Config. (Speed Cap) is the main problem that Megaduce has. If a Speed Cap has been put in place the User has little choice on that issue.

Most ADSL modems are still only available through "Providers", but there are more options available now to be aware of. Some Providers allow you to "Purchase" your own modem these days.

So basically what your saying is that both download/upload speeds are fixed at 512/128k/sec and there is little you can do to improve it........

I know my mate who has a cable connection managed to "uncap" it and had a download speed of 1013k/sec from cable modem rated at 512k/sec....

Is such a thing possible with ADSL or are we better trying cable?

Ok thanx Crowdirt I see the point that you're making and you're right that is exzactly what is happening to me.