How to Speed Up a Dial-Up Connection

I visited some townsfolk somewhere in the countryside in the beautiful paradise of Mindanao, Philippines a couple of weeks back.

Upon roaming around downtown, I noticed a small internet shop. I expected it to be using a dial-up connection since there wasn't any available broadband ISP there. I got in and rented a computer for an hour. I appreciated the fact that I never got a problem browsing because the connection was surprisingly fast. I got curious how they did it so I befriended the owner who happens to be a family friend of my relatives there. After chit chatting for ten minutes, I got from him their tweak.

I thought of sharing this tweak to help dial-up users have a better/faster connection.

Here's how:

• Go to Network Connections from the Control Panel, right click the internet connection, select Properties, and then uninstall 'QoS Packet Scheduler'.

• Open Registry Editor, go to Start/Run and type 'regedit'.

• In the window, expand

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD\Parameters

• Add a new DWORD named 'BufferMultiplier' with the Decimal value of 1024.

• Now, expand

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/
Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

• Delete the entry {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}.

• Next, expand

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl

• Add new DWORD value, name it 'IrqXPriority' where X corresponds to the IRQ of your modem; give it a decimal value of 1.

• Also, expand

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider

• Give the DWORD entries the following Decimal values:

Class = 1
DnsPriority = 1
HostsPriority = 1
LocalPriority = 1
NetbtPriority = 1

• Next, download CableNut and install.

• Download this Cablenut Customized Setting for dial-up and save settings.

• Restart computer.

Test your dial-up speed at testmy.net, speedtest.net or 2wire.com.