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I have Adelphia's Preferred service, which has an advertised top download speed of 4 Mbps.  When I run a download speed test, I typically get a result similar to the following one I just got.

Speed Test Results
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Your connection is: 3892 Kbps      (about 3.9 Mbps)
You downloaded at: 475 kB/s
Your TRuSPEED: ^info^ 4164 Kbps :: 508 kB/s (7% overhead factored)
Bottom Line: You are running: 70 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 2.16 second(s) 
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 9.08 % faster than the average for host (adelphia.net) 
 
Results Comparison  0               500                  1000             1500             2000             2500             3000             3500             4000   Kbps 
 
 ::You::
avg adelphia.net (3568 Kbps)
Typical Cable (256 - 4000)
Typical DSL (256 - 1500)
Satellite (700)
ISDN (64 - 128)
Dial Up (28.8 - 56)
Note:Your speed should be within the blue for your connection type. If you score higher... SMILE!
  0               61.0                 122.1            183.1            244.1            305.2            366.2            427.3            488.3  kB/s 

Hmmm, I hoped I could copy all the graphics contained in the result but no dice.  Anyway, please note the result states I was getting a speed that's "9.08 % faster than the average for host (adelphia.net)" and that my result "Looks Great".  Also, I sometimes read on this forum that Adelphia "rocks" or some other praise.  However, if my download speed is 3892 Kbps, which is less than the advertised speed, and it's 9.08 % faster than the average Adelphia download speed, there must be a ton of customers who are getting way less than the advertised download speed.  So, how can Adelphia be thought of as great or rocking?

your score is fine. almost right on your cap. its just some people have problems with their service or have a problem with their computer and they run d/l tests and bring the average down a little. its not a big deal, your only 9% faster than the hosts average anyway.

the average is lower because adelphia used to offer 3.0 tops, they upgraded some areas as far as 5 or even more, not sure how high, so the average is slowly climbing. all tests from adelphia are figured in, including those from yesteryear, which is why the average does not truly reflect the current average.

XSAVAGE,

I'm not complaining about my downloading speed.  I'm merely noting the average downloading speed is less than 4000 Kbps (Preferred service), which means the overall system doesn't "rock" at an average of 3500 Kbps.  Further, if folks with the 6000 Kbps service are included in the average, some customers must be fairly slow to bring the average down to 3500 Kbps.  I also wonder how the average will be or is affected by the 16-Mbps Extreme service.

Somehow, I feel the test should compare apples with apples.  That is, 4000 might be compared with 3500 Kbps but 6000 Kbps or 16 Mbps shouldn't.

not to be a d*ck or anything but heres the bottom line: your score is fine... almost right on your cap, don't complain, poor just- has only 2M service 

post it in make testmynet better. but then how do you tell automatically what package the person is on? answer that and you might just get your wish. it's just not as easy as it looks.

then people with the 6 meg package would select that they have the 3 meg package just to be able to brag.
you know what you shouldhave, so you know if the result is good or not.

Yup, speeds look good to me.