Thanks for sharing..
I'll give it a try and see what happens.

, narrowband.. That is a diffrent word.

Old Crab needs the such same thing as Koasati or that multi connect thingy Weaksid mentioned. Ah, me. How us poor folk are mistreated >

Nice site.

I like pcpitstop

http://pcpitstop.com/


Lots of good stuff there.

Btw, my connection is 1.5 - 3.0/ 128

Mine would be faster but they need to lay more Fiber Optic lines here in this city.. In State College, it's sweet since everything is fiber.

Jeez man, how could yo go from 600kbps to 3.4mbps?

Maybe when you tested your speed at that time you weren't gettin a good connection? If not, more power to you.

: #10 by Mr Cavanaugh - 2/18/2003 3:36:16 PM
: hrm - thats wierd - pcpitstop saya I'm at 3465 Kb/s down - cool!

It would probably depend on the size of the download for the test...
Too small a size and the faster it pumps it to you, hence the results...


example of running my connection at the different levels it will register at...


:
T1/Cable/DSL bandwidth test (500 KBytes)

RESULTS NOT AVAILABLE. Your download time was under 1 second. You should retest your bandwidth using a larger block size (i.e., higher connection speed test).
:

:
Text Block Size 1000 KB

Download Time 5588 ms
Receive Buffer Not available
Transmission Speed 1432 Kb/s
:

:
Text Block Size 2000 KB

Download Time 3144 ms
Receive Buffer Not available
Transmission Speed 5089 Kb/s
:

:
Text Block Size 4000 KB

Download Time 23694 ms
Receive Buffer Not available
Transmission Speed 1351 Kb/s
:

I do get a kick out of that banner telling me " TuneUp Strongly Recommended "

IPlural nods - it gave me the under 1 second message up until the 4meg test file

Bandwidth Place test:

Your raw speed was 2679005.41 bits per second which is the same as:

Communications

2.7 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

327 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

3.1 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.



come to think of it i ran the speed guide thing at the same time i installed the wirless router (homeportal 180)
so could be either of those i guess

I tried my upstream

63.4 kilobits per second

The joys of cable... we have a 3.5Mb connection, and my speeds on the testers always ranges anywhere from 0.6 to 2.9.

The cable's speeds vary dramatically with the number of active users.....
It ranges from sucks to almost pretty good.....
and of course, I shouldn't complain since it is always better than dial-up

Weaksid, you might want to contact your ISP and or Phone Company and ask them how far you are from the CO..

1 distance from CO

2 have phone company test phone line for noise, if they ask tell them you hear static intermidantly, they may need to put a filter on it, also the age of your phone line could be a hinderance and might be able to get replaced

3 cordless phone on same line, remove and test speed, even if filters installed in jacks

4 run the DSL connection check/test on this site and it will tell you some tweaks that might help your connection

other than that, without being there can't think of anything else...

just some thoughts

I have Cable Modem and Enhanced Cat 5 line.