Colin
06-15-04, 02:27 PM
If you've got an old Win98SE machine at home, why not make it into a firewall/router? I know several of my friends who have done this. To get a bit more from their broadband connection through the old PC, they've applied a very interesting tweak. Apparently once you've set that up (complicated, don't ask <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> you can out-right delete a registry value to give you a noticeable performance boost from Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 98SE. <BR>First let's load up regedit (Start, Run, regedit then press ok) and follow this path. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Services -> ICSharing -> Settings -> General. There find the InternetMTU value and delete it, after that's done save and reboot. Please note that this only works with Internet Connection Sharing and PCs connected to broadband connections, do not apply this tweak if you're using dialup.<BR><BR>I tried this one at home and it did seem to improve the internet connection speed when using Windows 98 but of course your mileage will vary.