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sorry i left somethings out. as you can se in my sig my old upload was 4045 which was higher than avertised now it is between 300 and 405 quite a drop if ya ask me and I have done no changes of any kind.

this was my test just a sec ago and this is on my Vista system with now adjustments justnew computer with Vista 64 and all of the windows updates and HP updates so all my updates are up to date but no tweaking of any kind
 I gues I should let ya know what it is
 
It is a HP Pavilion DV7-1285 dx with Intel Centrino core 2 duo P8600 2.4 GHz processor
6144 DDR2 SDRAM
nvidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512 DDR dedicated Graphics memory

My other one is a Compaq Presario 2700
Intel pentium III 1.0 GHz processor
768 Mb memory
and it has the same basic internet speed as the new one so I believe the issue may be in my router or my modem if ya need more info let me know

This is off of my old laptop with XP I have no Idea what is causing the Upload to be so slow.
I know alot of stuff affects the download but what specifically affects upload speed because something here is way out of adjustment because I believe my Comcast speeds are 16Megs download and 3 megs upload I believe that is the plan I have anyway I know its not the lowest one but not the Highest one they have either.

so any Ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

Ok here I am with a reboot of both Cable modem my wireless router and I even rebooted my laptop and made sure firewall was off just to make sure that wasn't it.
has anyone ever had the modem or router go bad on the upload side?? or do they normally just go bad on both upload and download.
I am really frustrated here cause I have no idea what to check or what to adjust for this like i said every setting is the same as it was when I did the test that I put in my Sig.
any Ideas would be greatly appreciated and just to clear up any confusion this test is done on the laptop that I did the sig test on and it is running XP and is wireless.
Thanks again for any suggestions or help it is greatly appreciated.
I am willing to buy a new router if needed or take back modem to Comcast and get a new one if ya think that would help.

OK thanks i will try that on my new one. I just wish I knew why my upload took a dump. I am okay with the download varying from 14 to 12 its still fast but with that slow of a upload its has to be affecting my internet speed because the slower i send back info the slower it can respond to my requests. and it is about 10 % or worse of what I used to get for upload and it seems to be a global problem no matter which computer I am on so it has to be a router or modem issue cause that is the variable thats stays the same here I am always using the same router and modem I will try one that is not wireless real quick and see if that may be a issue I never thought about that variable.

So bypass the router and try that also. Before just replacing it. 

weird how it is only affecting the upload speed.