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« on: August 12, 2006, 10:57:33 AM »

I'm running Centurytel DSL/Netopia modem(they suppiled).
Windows XP Home(SP2)

Your connection is: 264 Kbps or 0.26 Mbps
You Downloaded at: 32 kB/s
You are running: 5 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 32 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:1899372010647
Test Time:: 2006/08/12 - 9:37am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Maxthon)
Test ID: 00TKY3869 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 16.8 % of your hosts average (centurytel.net)
This was tested from a 1075 kB file and took 33.344 seconds to complete

My problem is, I have a slow download rate. I was somewhere around 11 to 12kB/s. I power cycled the pc and the modem, spy swept it and all that good stuff and it pushed me up too around 30/32 kB/s.

So is there anyway I can tweak my connection some more, too way more of a faster speed ?
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 11:14:55 AM »

Welcome to the forum Shane Briley  wave
Have you read to see if it is fully clean?
http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-4257

And look here for a tweak, TCP Optimizer or cablenut.
http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-1013

Also what is your advertised speeds?
And your connection type. DSL, cable, satelite, etc...
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 11:16:39 AM »

Shane Briley welcome to the forum.

take a look at the two topics tommie posted and what is your advertised speed?
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 11:21:32 AM »

DSL is my connection as i stated in the first post and yes my pc is clean, also tried those TCP Optimizers and CableNut. With no seen improvement in speed.

Also I believe my advertised speed is something like 256/146.
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2006, 11:23:04 AM »

DSL is my connection as i stated in the first post and yes my pc is clean, also tried those TCP Optimizers and CableNut. With no seen improvement in speed.

Also I believe my advertised speed is something like 256/146.

if your advertised is 256/146Kbps then your fine your not going to get any better till you upgrade the connection.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2006, 11:24:16 AM »

oh ok, so theres no way I can make my connection give me full strength then ?
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2006, 11:28:53 AM »

oh ok, so theres no way I can make my connection give me full strength then ?

your at the full strength of your connection your actually over by a little bit. the only to go faster is to upgrade to the next plan that your ISP offers
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2006, 11:29:40 AM »

"Your connection is: 264 Kbps or 0.26 Mbps" is over your cap of 256, and very good for DSL.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2006, 11:37:46 AM »

oh ok, well thanks for all the information. I guess if i want faster then 30kB/s or so Ill just upgrade to a different package.

Thanks agian.
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