Modem Booster?

[Freemorrison]

Anyone got any thoughts on these modem boosters - specifically "Throttle" ?
http://www.pgware.com/products/throttle/

"Throttle works by making permanent modifications to the Windows system registry and system files, these changes affect how your modem interacts with your internet service provider, download faster, play faster and surf the web faster by using Throttle."

Is what they are claiming really be true?

I would hate to mess up my modem.

[Rich-M]

I have no direct knowledge here but I remember using these things in dialup days and finding no change whatsoever so if I were you I would stay away George.

[Freemorrison]

I thought as much -them crooked software hacking - no truth advertising - ,,,,,,,,,, well some of the sites have a nice looking home page- nice enough they almost baited me. LOL

[Dan18960]

George,

Are you on DIAL-UP? ? ? ? ? ? I would think you would be on at the minimum cable if not fiber-optic at this point.

If your connecting wireless or ethernet, then you are not on dial up connection and you can ignore any "modem" speedup accelerators. NOW don't confuse a cable MODEM or DSL modem with a DIAL UP modem. While they have the "name" modem in their description they are far from the original engineering of the phone modems. Phone modems took modulated signals and demodulated them (thus the mo-dem identifier). Today's cable and dsl "modems" take a signal and convert vs demodulate to digital for ethernet communications.

[Freemorrison]

I have a Scientific Atlanta cable modem - straight from the cable ped - using Road Runner
Turbo with Power Boost - 15 Mbps/756 Kbps (bursts: 25 Mbps/1 Mbps). I blaze across the web - it's just a little interesting how these apps claim to "clear out the buffer" and "write new changes" - increasing speed. ???
All for 10 bucks?

[dbarrow]

There were, in the early days of XP, various registry changes related to networking which would optimize throughput to the modem.
Many of these "optimizations" were discovered by some true genius networking experts who discovered some glaring errors in XP network design or differences designed for a business networking environment as opposed to communication with a high speed modem.
Many of these changes were incorporated in MS updates and service packs at a later time and are now fully incorporated into the OS.
A bunch of these were the basis of many "tweaker" programs that sprung up in the first years of XP. Many were pure "BS".
I did apply the pure registry hacks, quite successfully, in the early days of XP and it did make some difference.
There are still ways of matching settings to the optimal performance of the modem but it requires research and much trial and error, as a wrong setting can make things much worse.

[Freemorrison]

Great info thanks!