What speeds should I be getting?

[twisterX]

thats worse than what you though. Thats like 365 kbps connection.

[oldjagman]

We're getting our big Ks and little ks mixed up here. Your physical download is measured in kilobits not Kilobytes so you have to divide the speed of your connection by 8 to arrive at the speed your client reports. I have 2200Ks download and 256 Ks up giving me a max of 275ks down (never seen but have recorded 225) and 32 up (can get there but 29-30 is normal)

[darkmatter]

I decided to uninstall McAfee Firewall and see if it made a difference! now I'm gettin 100kb/sec+ speeds

weird

[4play]

is it me or is that 10mb his local connection. his wan connection could be anything.

[dodgy368]

2005-12-18 18:33:06 EST: 271 / 62
Your download speed : 271 kbps or 33.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 62 kbps or 7.8 KB/sec.



I swear I thought I had 1MB broadband

Those ain't the stats of a 10meg pipe, did you have a d/l running when you did that test? If so, shut down all other internet activity and then run a speed test and post the results on here.

[darkmatter]

2005-12-18 18:33:06 EST: 271 / 62
Your download speed : 271 kbps or 33.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 62 kbps or 7.8 KB/sec.



I swear I thought I had 1MB broadband

Those ain't the stats of a 10meg pipe, did you have a d/l running when you did that test? If so, shut down all other internet activity and then run a speed test and post the results on here.

At the time there was no internet activity at all. I uninstalled McAfee Firewall+McAfee security center and restarted.

Now I'm getting
2006-01-01 18:48:16 EST: 951 / 99
Your download speed : 951 kbps or 118.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 99 kbps or 12.4 KB/sec.

[dodgy368]

Those ain't the stats of a 10meg pipe, did you have a d/l running when you did that test? If so, shut down all other internet activity and then run a speed test and post the results on here.

At the time there was no internet activity at all. I uninstalled McAfee Firewall+McAfee security center and restarted.

Now I'm getting
2006-01-01 18:48:16 EST: 951 / 99
Your download speed : 951 kbps or 118.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 99 kbps or 12.4 KB/sec.

Yep, much better, looks like mcafee was choking your connection, try kaspersky personal(not pro) a/v and zonealarm(basic free version) for your firewall(that's what I'm running and it works perfectly), see how that goes and let us know.