download speed is low .... help me

[mido]

hey guys ... i am new here .... i hope i could find answers to my questions ...

anyway, i have ADSL ..... 512 / 128 .... but i get very low download speeds...... speaking of  20 to 30 KB/s maximum .... even the browsing is too *censored* slow

any help with that ? any solution ?

[dl65]

mido  ..... ok , lets see exactly whats happening ....... please go to ...
 
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/    and do a download test ...and post the results here .......  then we can proceed .

dl65  

[mido]

here r the results ....


oh i forgot to say i have a partner in the LAN

[dl65]

mido.......   Here are my results using the same test site .  I also have ADSL service .

1.2 megabits/sec

Communications: ....... 1.2 mb/sec
Storage :...................  151.3 Kbs
1 MB file download ....   6.8 sec
Rating : ...................   Good

I also am connected through a LAN

dl65  

[mido]

so what's ur ADSL speed dude ?

i told u mine is 512 kbps download and 128 kbps upload ....

and do u think my results are good ?

[mido]

i did the test again and here r the new results  :-?


378 kilobits per second

Communications 378 kilobits per second
Storage 46.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 22.2 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

[dl65]

mido......  What speed are you supposed to be getting ?
We both have ADSL ....... and yet  My D/L is 1 meg in 6.2 seconds and your second test was 1 meg in 22.2 seconds .........  about 3.5 times slower than mine .

dl65  

[Rob Pomeroy]

Remember folks not to confuse kb with kB.  One kiloByte = 8 kilobits.  Connection speeds are usually specified in kbps, so remember if you're looking at a download speed reported in kB, multiply that by 8 if you want to compare it with your maximum speed.

Maximum speed depends on network congestion, contention ratios, throttling on servers and gateways, etc. etc.  You will get different speeds at different times of day - things tend to slow down a bit when America wakes up.

[mido]

yes of course i know about that rob ....so shall i accept these rates ?

[Rob Pomeroy]

378k out of a maximum of 512 sounds reasonable to me.  No one will see 512k on a 512k connection.

[soybean]

I just used the site dl65 mentioned, http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/, and I don't agree with it's results.  Not accurate at all.  I like dslreports.com.  I just ran a report from them yesterday and got 1370 kbps download and 371 kbps upload.  My rated speed is 1500/384.  So, my actual download speed is about 91% of the rated speed.  

After seeing this discussion, I tried  http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ out of curiosity; it reported 536.3 kilobits per second.  I then immediately ran another test from dslreports.com and got 1371/370, nearly identical to yesterday's test.  
 
dslreports.com also offers a Tweaks test and other tests.  The Tweaks test provides recommendations, if applicable, on how to improve your speed; usually, this would involve changing the RWIN value in your system.  Yesterday, I ran a speed test on my old Win 98SE system.  The initial test yielded a download speed of about 870, as I recall.  I then used DrTCP, a free utility from dslreports.com, to change the RWIN value, as recommended by the Tweaks test for the Win 98SE system.  After changing RWIN and restarting the computer, I ran the speed test again and got about the same results as on my main machine, the 1371/370 mentioned above.

[yesterday]

i've all so done that test my results were:

324.9 kilobits per second
Communications 324.9 kilobits per second
Storage 39.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 25.8 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

but when i press ctrl+alt+del and go to networking it says 2mbps. what is  going on.

[soybean]

For some info on what that part of Task Manager means, see: Task Manager overview and click on the link on the page for Networking fields overview.

[dl65]

 soybean.... I just compared the results between....... bandwidthplace and dslreports........ if you notice they report the fndings in differant ways , but if you do the conversion , the results are similar from both.

dl65  

[Fed]

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-08-11 19:08:17 EST:
38 / 23
Your download speed : [highlight]38 kbps[/highlight] or 4.7 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : [highlight]23 kbps[/highlight] or 2.9 KB/sec.