Anybody else living in Japan?  I searched around for anybody with the ne.jp domain, to no avail.  J-COM advertises 30mpbs/2Mbps for ALL customers on their homepage

http://www.jcom.co.jp/index.php    (Japanese)
http://www.jcom.co.jp/english/index.php (English, but severely stripped down)


I'm using a Kanto region (Tokyo area) ISP, just curious to see if anybody else is getting these speeds, I can't even get half of it.  (Before attempting tweaks)

Thanks for the quick reply, Tommie, pretty rare these days  ;) I did as you said, cleaned out all my temp files and here's my results:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 1696 Kbps about 1.7 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 207 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/09/04 - 12:47pm
Bottom Line:: 30X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.95 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 58.735 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 57.92 % of your hosts average (ne.jp)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-BEDU7N6A9
User Agent:: Opera/9.01 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

Any tips you have to improve this would be much appreciated.  Thanks.

Try reading this: "Achieve the Best Performance Out of Your Computer"
http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-4257

What did you set the meter at on the Optimizer? And was the Optimizer in this here forum?