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Hey guys,

tried to read the sticky thread before posting this but i can't understand most of it. So I just went straight here and posted this thread.
So here's the thing I have a fios internet and I have the 10/2 plan. A week after the connection was installed the download speed was fast, probably around 80Kbps/s, which i think is still slow..which is probably caused by the wireless router being at the living room and my pc on the 2nd floor. Now, a couple of days before my brother just turned off the router (not sure if does affect my speed connection) but when i turned it on it just got slow. so slow that when i download something the max is just 9 Kbps. so i went here and test my connection...

and here're the results...

Download Connection is:: 88 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 11 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/09/18 - 11:07pm
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 93.09 sec
Tested from a 97 kB file and took 9.043 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 1.54 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-CDEROUBM0
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/2.0.0.11;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0 [/size]

so I guess my question is do you think there's something wrong my settings or is it just verizon?

Thanks guys
-g

my router has a password on it...
so here's the thing, when the "cable guy" installed the tv and the internet connection he had it on the living room without any PCs connected to it...so i basically haven't tried hard wiring my pc to the router..

alright so here're the results after i directly connected to the router..

Download Connection is:: 9522 Kbps about 9.5 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1162 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/09/20 - 8:39am
Bottom Line:: 166X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.88 sec
Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 10.572 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 66.85 % faster than the average for host (verizon.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-QK84MOLPU
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/2.0.0.11;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0 [/size]


no idea on how to the other one as im not sure how to connect the cable directly to my pc...

what wireless adapter do you recommend? i currently have a linksys wmp54gs..