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Being right infront of the smart cellsite (smartbro base station) doesn't assure you of better speed. you might have a clear "visual line of sight". however, this does not mean that you have a clear "radio line of sight.

We need a "radio line of sight." Radio line of sight differs slightly from visual line of sight. Our signal can pass through various types of buildings and obstructions, (depending on your distance from a base station), so you may be able to get service even if you can't see the antenna.

Also there are other factors which affect speed. Viruses, trojans, excessive opening of programs while browsing the internet. So clean your PC before speed testing. Also, remember that its wireless internet which is susceptible to even the most basic device such as a phone, or a monitor that operates at 2.4GHz. The interference usually is not noticeable.

good luck. dont forget to post your score afterwards.

a few minutes later.... did all the steps, speed is as below:



I must note though that this problem is not isolated to my own base station, a friend who lives about 4kms away says his SmartBro is slower than usual too...

I had a bit of confusion however in your step 13 and 14.  Do it type ipconfig /flushdns in the run command (using winXP), or call up a DOS-style prompt and input the same command there?

I tried the latter, a message say "IPCONFIG is not a recognized..." thingy, sorry I wasn't able to note the full message down.  Also tried ipconfig /flushdns, it gave me the same message. 

So I tried the former, I typed ipconfig /flushdns on the run command. 

Hope my documentation can help you guys pinpoint what I overlooked, or it's just one of those Smart downtime days....

@beldeti
go to start menu> run, in the window that comes out type cmd, then you will got to the command prompt. that's where you input those commands.

@luwi
just keep trying. look for other ways to tweak,specially if your using cablenut, try to search for other configuration. you could try gourame's. i'll attach it.

@kupalnasmartbro
nice name. anyway, also browse this forum, specially http://www.testmy.net/t-18616.0. its worth the long search
here's what my hard work has earned me

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 419 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)
Download Speed is:: 51 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/08/08 - 9:59am
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 20.08 sec
Tested from a 1496 kB file and took 29.265 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 95.23 % of your hosts average (241.45)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-P1EA67IRB
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

@coolbuster2007

Thanks for the clarification.  I was typing 'command' instead of 'cmd', which did give me a DOS-prompt window but it was labeled command.com.   
Will try again when I get home from work. 

Anyway, can I do your "20 steps" plus elijahpaul's Canopy Page tweak (as linked by fr0stbound) at the same time? Or should I choose only one? 

@snip07
that's the usual speed I get, sadly I can't go beyond 300Kbps... as if I'm set at 384Kbps when my account is already indicated as "SMBRO512"... Where in CdOC are you? Am near Apovel Subdivision.

ei guyz check this...thats my link capacity test
Downlink RATE: 10813440 bps
Uplink RATE: 3092992 bps
Aggregate RATE: 13906432 bps
      Pkt Xmt (Act/Exp): 509/0
      Pkt Rcv (Act/Exp): 1757/0

Downlink Efficiency: 94 Percent
      Downlink Index (Act/Max): 94/100
      Frag Count (Act/Exp): 44630/42240

Uplink Efficiency: 100 Percent
      Uplink Index (Act/Max): 100/100
      Frag Count (Act/Exp): 12082/12082

and this is my AP evaluation
Index: 1 Frequency: 5815.00 MHz ESN: 0a-00-3e-f7-bf-88
Jitter: 2 RSSI: 1788 Power Level: -43 Beacon Count: 29 BRcvW: 1 DFSEn: 0 FECEn: 0
Type: Multipoint Avail: 1 Age: 0 Lockout: 0 RegFail 0 Range: 882 feet TxBER: 1 EBcast: 0
Session Count: 1 NoLUIDS: 0 OutOfRange: 0 AuthFail: 0 EncryptFail: 0
 Rescan Req: 0
Color Code: 36 BeaconVersion: 1

but why my download speed still too low?....


but my upload speed is this

not bad for the upload but my download