[hewee]

I was also getting slow speeds and moved and the speeds were the same. Got new computer and speeds went way up. Even had speed test that were the same for both computers but the new computer gets faster speeds most of the time and I have done test that had me over 30 Mb.
Even now I got this.

That is 29.47 Mb/s down and 2.36 Mb/s up for my 6 Mb I pay for.
But downloading files most always is slower then any test.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by hewee

That is 29.47 Mb/s down and 2.36 Mb/s up for my 6 Mb I pay for.

How do you do that?

Pay for 6 and get 30.

[hewee]

Originally Posted by RootbeaR

How do you do that?

Pay for 6 and get 30.

Like I said it is only a test. Other speed test sites I don't get that but that one site and the test to SF I do get the high Mb.
Lots of downloads are in the 100's kb's and then some are 300 kb's
Test and true downloads are never the same. Plus even going to a site that you do get fast downloads you can go there at another time and they are slow. So it's the site and your ISP that effects the speed and I guess your computer too because my new Dell if faster then the 8 year old computer with 98SE on it.
Can not show you speeds on the old computer from where I moved from because http://speedtest.net/ history over the years was losted when I moved here. But look at the same test site here and your see it can be less.

[silverado4]

Hijack is posted.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by hewee

Like I said it is only a test. Other speed test sites I don't get that but that one site and the test to SF I do get the high Mb.
Lots of downloads are in the 100's kb's and then some are 300 kb's
Test and true downloads are never the same. Plus even going to a site that you do get fast downloads you can go there at another time and they are slow. So it's the site and your ISP that effects the speed and I guess your computer too because my new Dell if faster then the 8 year old computer with 98SE on it.
Can not show you speeds on the old computer from where I moved from because http://speedtest.net/ history over the years was losted when I moved here. But look at the same test site here and your see it can be less.

I do it all the time. Also about 100 miles from server(Toronto).

I pay for ten and am always between 9.1 and 9.3.

I will try the SF one later. A few times.

Thank-you for your reply.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by silverado4

Hijack is posted.

Good luck!

Didn't mean to "Hijack This" thread on you.

If no luck with it there, after following their instructions, post back here.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by hewee

Like I said it is only a test. Other speed test sites I don't get that but that one site and the test to SF I do get the high Mb.
Lots of downloads are in the 100's kb's and then some are 300 kb's
Test and true downloads are never the same. Plus even going to a site that you do get fast downloads you can go there at another time and they are slow. So it's the site and your ISP that effects the speed and I guess your computer too because my new Dell if faster then the 8 year old computer with 98SE on it.
Can not show you speeds on the old computer from where I moved from because http://speedtest.net/ history over the years was losted when I moved here. But look at the same test site here and your see it can be less.

My experience with Comcast has been similar to this as well. I have no idea what speed I'm actually paying for but I've seen the download speed increase over the years even though the cost of the service hasn't. I'm not getting 30Mbps download speeds from speedtest.net but I'm getting 15-21MBps.

Peace...

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

My experience with Comcast has been similar to this as well. I have no idea what speed I'm actually paying for but I've seen the download speed increase over the years even though the cost of the service hasn't. I'm not getting 30Mbps download speeds from speedtest.net but I'm getting 15-21MBps.

Peace...

And they are blaming P2P apps for hogging all the bandwidth. LOL

Hopefully, they don't see this thread.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by RootbeaR

And they are blaming P2P apps for hogging all the bandwidth. LOL

Hopefully, they don't see this thread.

LOL

Peace...

[hewee]

Even back years ago when I got comcast cable it was 1.5 Mb speeds. It was really fast. But they just took it over from AT&T. About 3 weeks later they started all the routing changes and speed went way down . Page loads were slower also. You call and it was your trouble if you had a firewall and or router that was to them back then a big NO NO to have.
I was getting from 800 to 1200 Kb so I guess not to bad for 1.5 Mb. But that was day or night so you can't say it was slow because of all the people on in the day time so go at night when speeds are faster.
Then they changed all the hops and took out a node and added are to that one and it got slower but we now had 2 Mb but speeds test were 500 to 800 kb but downloading files were 25 to 49 and maybe at times 60 to 81 Kb. So slow. Then after many calls downs went up to 125 kb but now we had 3 Mb speed, then 4 Mb and then 6 Mb speed but my speed test and downloads speed never changed.
OK in July I moved in hope that not living way out in farm land even if it was by the comcast office but in town where you have more people on the same lop to call if you have trouble that I would be getting what I pay for. But speeds were the same. Then I got the new computer and speeds went way up. But there are some speed test sites that the speeds are still slow. I also think the flash speed test are telling you faster speeds then your really getting.
Yea on the old 98SE I tweaked all the settings too with cable nut that did the most help on my speeds and page loads. I have not done so on the new Dell with XP Pro. Maybe I should to see if I can get even faster speeds.
Go here to http://www.speedguide.net/ and then broadband from the left side and there are lots of tweaks. I got lots for 98.
Then went to http://www.cablenut.com/ and got the cablenut program and the "CableNut Add On Package" that has the tweak files for your OS and connection type and speed. You want to backup your registry first before doing all the things here in case you need to get things changed back. But it really helped on the old 98 computer even if it never gave me what I was paying for.
DSL speed test at http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest I did the flash test to megapath 7298 kb/sdown and 1697 Kb/s up. About what I pay for.
Then the java speed test at megapath at 92 miles
Run: 2008-10-10 23:05:48 EST
Download: 6344 (Kbps)
Upload: 2076 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 774.5 down 253.4 up
Tested by server: 55 java
User: 523807 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: comcast.net
Compared to the average of 2139 tests from comcast.net:
* download is 8% worse, upload is 36% better
Other sites you can test from there can be slower.
linkline.net 363 miles
Speed Test #59014040 by dslreports.com
Run: 2008-10-10 23:10:44 EST
Download: 17555 (Kbps)
Upload: 2181 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 2142.9 down 266.3 up
Tested by server: 54 java
User: 2 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: comcast.net
Compared to the average of 2139 tests from comcast.net:
* download is 152% better, upload is 43% better

nac.net at 2456 miles.
Speed Test #59014135 by dslreports.com
Run: 2008-10-10 23:13:28 EST
Download: 2641 (Kbps)
Upload: 1935 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 322.4 down 236.2 up
Tested by server: 56 java
User: 2 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS: comcast.net
Compared to the average of 2139 tests from comcast.net:
* download is 62% worse, upload is 27% better

Now that is not as close but most things you down are not close by either. So in a way it is showing you real download speed going to that state.
Then if you login to DSL you can go to 377 speedtest sites ordered by location

Flash test Elk Grove, CA about 20 miles
Download Speed: 20502 kbps (2562.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2197 kbps (274.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Flash test SureWest in Roseville, Ca. About 20 miles the other way from me.
Download Speed: 20056 kbps (2507 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2267 kbps (283.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 66 ms

Waiting for SureWest's Fiber-optic to get to us here but they had made there money from the housing boom where they layed the Fiber-optic line up to in inside of all the homes.
Not like comcast that put in Fiber-optic lines and said how great it was for the Digital TV that got worse after they went Digital. Plus the comcast Fiber-optic lines are not up to your house.
SureWest's bundled offerings include an array of advanced Digital TV, High-speed Internet, and Digital and Traditional Telephone services.

SureWest's Fiber-optic network features High-Definition TV and Internet speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
They even have a 50 Mbps up and down speed in some places they are at but that cost a lot.

tomdkat,

Are your speeds test the same as what you get if your downing a file because the real test is what your really getting downing a file.
Today I download at Daz 6 files and I got really fast speeds that are many times faster then I pay for. But I could go there now or this weekend and down load the same files and get speeds 10 times slower. So again comcast has over loaded the there system and your really fast speeds on a true down load seem to be because you got there at the very time less people are downloading so got the speed you pay for or faster.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by hewee

tomdkat,

Are your speeds test the same as what you get if your downing a file because the real test is what your really getting downing a file.

It really depends on what I'm downloading and from where. Some downloads finish so quickly, I don't get to see what the maximum download rate would have been (meaning the download speeds up as it progresses and finishes before it maxed out). I'm downloading OpenOffice 3.0rc4 for Windows right now and it started out downloading at 1.7Mbps and that dropped down do right around 800Kbps. I have no idea from where I'm downloading the file. Wait, it just jumped up to 1.5MBps, now back down to 800Kbps.

Some sites give me more consistent fast downloads than others. I've never seen a 15Mbps download from a non-speed test download site but I have seen consistent 1+Mbps download speeds from sites.

My OpenOffice 3.0rc4 download completed. I downloaded 127MB of data in 2:29 @ 882.3 Kbps average download speed.

Peace...

[hewee]

I know in Firefox when your downloading a file if you click on the download manager and highlight the file your downloading you can right click on it and click properties and see where your downloading from.
You can then copy that link and do a ping and trace on it.
I use PingPlotter Freeware, version 1.20
http://www.pingplotter.com/download.html
See very bottom of page for download link of free version.
It is nice because your sites you go to are saved so you don't have to type them out all the time and it does both a trace and ping and shows other info.
So if you go to site abc and it shows that all is really fast but the downloads are slow you can look to see where the download is coming from and then use PingPlotter on that site to see things look.

I am an Admin at one site where I download a backup of the site each night but the speed is never the same. One night it can be 80 KB then others it jumps from 80 to 150 KM and another time it is 500 KM. But you don't know the file size because it grows each day. But I get lost packets looking at PingPlotter and guess that is why after the download is over and I look I see I don't have the whole download so I got to download it again. It is 126,267 KB as of last night. But at times the download will end and you look and only have 50 or 75 percent of that so you know you don't have the whole file.
But looks like your download of files are a whole lot better then mine are. I may have some really fast download speed test but they are only test and not the real thing that counts the most like downloading files you want.

[RootbeaR]

Toronto was first. Then SF 1 & 2
I will try SF again when it isn't so busy.
Big discrepancy even though they were done one after the other.

[silverado4]

Did I start something I can't finish here?
You guys really got me confused, you know that,
I'm trying to keep up, but I'm somewhere in the
middle of the pack here. I'm still waiting for malware forum to
answer my hijack log, I'll let you know what comes of it.
(whew, I need a rest after reading all the above).
Thanks for all the info...

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by silverado4

Did I start something I can't finish here?
You guys really got me confused, you know that,
I'm trying to keep up, but I'm somewhere in the
middle of the pack here. I'm still waiting for malware forum to
answer my hijack log, I'll let you know what comes of it.
(whew, I need a rest after reading all the above).
Thanks for all the info...

"Bump" your other thread if it goes too long without a response to ensure it doesn't get buried.
Good luck.