I tried the speed test that wildthing666 gave out on 3 Aug. It gives me great numbers, 6Mb/s to London (from Wales), 1.8Mb/s to the east coast of the states, but when I try to download a file from an ftp site for a demo games file, the download is typically 120kb/s. What is happening? What does the speedtest measure? Nothing actually appears in my download folder after running the test.
By the way I am using Vista Home Premium on an Acer laptop with Turion 2Ghz cpu.
Tried your Nividia site and tried downloading a demo graphics, about 118Mb this morning about 7.30am. The best I got was 613kb/s, but more typical was hovering around 520kb/s. Is that good or bad? What are the speed test checking? They consistently give me greater than 1Mb/s.
I don't know how you posted your results, but did your get 7Mbps?
For news-europe.giganews I got 927Kbps and for news.giganews I got 1001Kbps. Nowhere near your 7004Kbps. I don't know what the Reverse Trace Tool does.
Tried Giga.news this morning - 6.30 - and got 3.7Mb/s. But then I tried your Nividia games demo and it was still only 300kb/s. Presumably my connection to the net and my equipment is okay, and is capable of receiving at a reasonable speed. I am about a mile from the local exchange so would not expect more than say 4 or 5 Mb/s. Just have to put up with it.
Try the giganews test again then try this ubuntu download when it gets to 60mb complete see what the download speed is , for me it was 550KB/Sec and slowly rising.
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