NIC settings changed to allow connection - Page 2

garyparson · 21-09-2005, 17:40

I have a samsung stb

jaycee · 22-09-2005, 01:52

I am wondering if a recent software upgrade has knackered this. 10mbit full duplex should not be giving you crap though, its more than enough bandwidth and people with the older modems (3com, terayon, SB3100) only get 10mbit full duplex links and they never have problems.

I would try replacing the cable. If that affects nothing it may be worth swapping out your NIC as they are only cheap. If it's onboard LAN try updating your drivers. If all else fails you could consider asking NTL to fit a SACM for you.

Chrysalis · 22-09-2005, 12:02

I am unsure on this, my modem I had noticed I had to keep rebooting it twice a week or more to fix speeds plummeting, I put it down to the auto negotiation crapping out but one thing I know is these problems started after I flashed it to the new bios. Since I manually specified the negotiation things so far seem better but speed fluctuations are still there but I dont know if this is NTL themselves or the same problem. What I am usually seeing is if I say download 3 gig of data the modem will be sustaining max thorughput for around an hour and then start fluctuating widly and if I reboot it then it is suddenly sustaining the speed again.

garyparson · 22-09-2005, 13:50

Mine fluctuates every 40 seconds or so. I have the latest drivers for my onboard lan. I bought a new nic the other week and tried that. It was the same (red cross when on auto) When you say replace the cable, do you mean from the stb to the connection in the bedroom, or the little one between the connection in the bedroom and the computer?

What i don't get is that it seems to work fine with the rest of the internet but not p2p. I've tried every setting but can't get above 70, no matter what.

jaycee · 23-09-2005, 00:43

I meant the ethernet cable from the STB to the PC.

P2P opens a lot more connections than anything else does, and a lot more rapidly. This creates a higher resource overhead that the STB has to deal with. To be honest, the SACM's are better at dealing with it, as that's all they have to do, whereas the STB has to deal with running the digital TV stuff also.

garyparson · 23-09-2005, 03:14

There are two cables between the stb and the pc. The main one goes from the stb, outside and up the wall, into the bedroom. The second one goes from that to the pc. I've already had an engineer come round, connect his laptop to both ends and proclaim that it was ok. Obviously he wasn't running a p2p app and as i've said, apart from that, it seems to run fine. p2p is the only heavy usage i give it really. Any speed tests always show it to be running at 2 meg.

anyway. do you think that changing the cable from the pc to the wall socket would work or would that be a waste of time/money? I could always ask for a cable modem but on what grounds? and can these handle the coming soon(yeah, haha, i know) 10 meg setup?

jaycee · 23-09-2005, 06:30

Oh! This sounds like you've had a pair of CAT5 sockets installed (similar to phone sockets). I didn't know NTL did this...

I would ask for a cablemodem. If they can run a CAT5 cable up your wall, they could run a coax cable up to supply a SACM. Yes, the SACM's will handle the 10mbit service (probably better than the STB's will)

garyparson · 23-09-2005, 16:24

On what premise do i ask for a cablemodem?

Stuart · 23-09-2005, 16:45

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Originally Posted by jaycee

I meant the ethernet cable from the STB to the PC.

P2P opens a lot more connections than anything else does, and a lot more rapidly. This creates a higher resource overhead that the STB has to deal with. To be honest, the SACM's are better at dealing with it, as that's all they have to do, whereas the STB has to deal with running the digital TV stuff also.

IIRC, in the Samsung, the Modem is seperate from the DTV stuff.
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Originally Posted by garyparson

On what premise do i ask for a cablemodem?

AFAIK, you just phone up and ask to switch. You don't have to give a reason.