Thread: How to Increase your Upload Speed

**Results may vary**.
This guide has worked for me & plenty of others, if it does not work for you then my apologies. This guide was intended to help those in need.

Foreword: I've noticed that a lot of you here at T-I have less than stellar connections. This can hurt you when you try to get an invite you want right? Well there's not much you can do about it except what I will show you how to do below. Be realistic! I'm not some internet guru that can show you how to get an upload speed of x amount. What I can show you is how to get the most out of your internet connection. The speed that your ISP gives you is the only amount you can receive, no more but in some cases a lot less. Remember that. This guide is geared more toward broadband connections but this can apply to any connection.

WINDOWS VISTA USERS: Vista TCP tuning (tweaking) is NOT advisable. The Vista TCP stack does a reasonable job of tuning the receive window dynamically, there are no known registry tweaks that would optimize Vista better than its default configuration.

Let's start by heading over to speakeasy.net/speedtest for a speedtest. I want you to use theirs because it is measured in kb/s unlike speedtest.net where it is measured in mb/s. kb/s is important because of what we will use later in order to increase the speed. Below are the results of my most recent speed test:

Not too bad. My ISP throttles my bandwidth from time to time. You can be a victim of this also. Remember that you may own your computer, but they own your service. They're in control more so than you are.

What we will do next is head over speedguide.net to download the SG TCP Optimizer. The program is portable (meaning no install necessary. Just click to run) & for the virus freaks out there here is a virustotal result: 0/41 (0.00%). For more information on the TCP Optimizer, here is an overview.

The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used. The tool uses advanced algorithms, and the bandwidth*delay product to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed. It provides for easy tuning of all related TCP/IP parameters, such as MTU, RWIN, and even advanced ones like QoS and ToS/Diffserv prioritization. The program works with all current versions of Windows, and includes additional tools, such as testing average latency over multiple hosts, and finding the largest possible packet size (MTU).

The TCP Optimizer is targeted towards broadband internet connections, however it can be helpful with tuning any internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+ :)

Next we will head over to dslreports.com/tweaks to find out what tweaks you should make in TCP Optimizer. (Java required!) You should find a box like so:

Click 'start'. When finished, click the 'results' button. You will be taken to a screen where you do the following:

1: Select your service type
2: Enter the download speed of your speakeasy speedtest
3: Select your operating system
4: Your connection type (more than likely 'normal')

Once you've entered all of this information click 'recommend'

What I want you to focus on is the first box that says 'tweakable settings'. These are the settings you will use in TCP Optimizer. Let's now use TCP Optimizer & enter those settings. While in the program, look at the far right side on the bottom & click 'custom settings'. We will now enter the settings into the program.

Focus on the the areas highlighted in red. These areas you will be changing. At the upper most part of the screen you will see 'connection speed', this is where you enter your rounded up connection speed from speakeasy. (Since mine was 12,7 I'll round it up to 13)

Next focus on 'TCP Receive Window'. This is where the recommendations come in handy. Use the first number in the recommendations box on dslreports.

Next, in TTL (time to live) enter the TTL remaining number in that area.

When you're all finished, click 'apply settings'. It will ask you if you wish to back up the changes. Click yes every time!

Next you will need to restart your computer, do so & then do another speed test. Once you're done, you should have a higher download speed & upload speed. The latter in which we worked on this entire time.

EDIT: Here are my new speed test results:

Nice huh?

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I put a lot of effort into this guide, please click the thank you or rep button if you feel it is worthy :001_smile:

and if I wanna go back to my previous unchanged Internet Connection, what should I do?

You should go into TCP > Select File > Restore Backed Up Settings > & Select SG_backup



You'll need to restart your computer again to have the chages apply.

One main thing you need to have listed, this should help prevent some disasters for Vistaites. I did not see this in the post MixKing,

WINDOWS VISTA USERS: Vista TCP tuning (tweaking) is NOT advisable. The Vista TCP stack does a reasonable job of tuning the receive window dynamically, there are no known registry tweaks that would optimize Vista better than its default configuration.