Increase Your Cable Modem or DSL Speed in XP

[presh4u]

This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with WinXP professional version - might work on Home version also. It may also work with networked machines as well.

This tweak assumes that you have let WinXP create a connection on install for your cable modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and print sharing - and client for Microsoft networks , only, installed. It also assumes that WinXP will detect your NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try this.

In the "My Network Places" properties (right-click on the desktop icon and choose properties), highlight the connection
then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the
bindings for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.

 

[thesheild]

Printers and internet have almost nothing in common, so then why would unticking those boxes make it faster?

 

[stuart72]

Printers and internet have almost nothing in common, so then why would unticking those boxes make it faster?

Nope - nothing in common at all

Except

XP will, by default, periodically search any attached LAN, like your broadband connection, for new shared printers and folders. There isn't much of a performance hit from this - it only does it every few minutes and won't create much overhead on a 1Gbs-1 NIC that isn't overly stressed supporting a 1-20Mbs-1 conection - but it is there. Another way to stop this that doesn't involve turning off file and printer sharing (a nuisance if you are running a home LAN) is

Open explorer
goto: Tools -> Folder Options
click the View tab
Under Advanced settings, Files and Folders unckeck the box that reads "Automatically search for network folders and printers"

 

[Lordkil]

Ok!