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New ultimate requires registry edit?
So i looked at the fine print of the new Cox Ultimate which i am told i should start to see August 5th in Oklahoma City. The fine print states registry edit to Win7 would need to be made to enable high speed. Anyone have any insight what/why this is necessary?
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Health_Edge
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Interesting question but I doubt any tweaks would have to be made with Windows 7, most of it is automatic. Maybe if it was Windows XP, but with Windows 7 machines the only tweaks I have seen which are even semi legit decrease latency by reducing error correction. I have personally seen Windows 7 Pro go a shy over 200Mbps without any adjustment to the registry. Maybe the caveat is there for people who don't have standard registries, general CYA.
A question of mine is what will be needed for the 1Gbps connection Cox says might be rolled out some places end of 2014? I think the speed would hit some software bottlenecks around 600Mbps but thats just a educated guess.
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smtips
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First I ever heard of it, but it is Windoze so maybe. Search engine is your friend...
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Rootman
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Can you reference the exact ad or paste the exact text here?
In a average setup with a modem and router with the PC(s) sitting on a LAN behind the routers switch I don't see how anything would be required in the Windows registry, Win 7 will already work on gigabit ethernet (on a gb NIC) just fine already with no registry tweaking, why it would need any reg hacking to work on anything less for internet access is a mystery.
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ChrisL
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