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I'm getting the same thing as Anchorman. located in Pittsburgh,PA,USA. 54mb wireless G, older Thinkpad T42
       
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 12255 Kbps about 12.3 Mbps (tested with 12280 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1496 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/06/21 - 9:46am
Bottom Line:: 214X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.68 sec
Tested from a 12280 kB file and took 8.209 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 88.83 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-KOURJCP1V
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

Tested with 2992kb download.....  Supposed to be Comcast 6M/384k. Must've upgraded to 8M in secret. Using Firefox Losing another mip to Norton & Zone Alarm I still get:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 6982 Kbps about 7 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 852 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (server2)
Test Time:: Sat Feb 04 2006 12:40:57 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 125X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.2 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 46.71 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-52CPOV7XM

Like the team says, it depends on where you have the router. If you're out in a farmhouse in Iowa, or a ranch in Wyoming, it's not all that important. If you're in an apartment building in New York City, it gets critical. Proximity of other potential squatters raises the chance that they'll have the time to get into your system
WEP - pretty decent when you use 128bit versus 64. Cracking can be done by someone with a moderately advanced level of expertise. Tools are readily available on the net and it would take 30-60 minutes to crack if they get lucky and a maximum of 4 hours if they're terribly unlucky.
WPA - more protection with any version - tools are available if you know where to look but it would take advanced hacker skill, some serious horsepower and say, 48 hours to crack. In the meantime, you'll surely notice it on your own connection - you'll crawl to a stop with all the cracking traffic.
Another alternative with Linksys is also using the MAC address. Pretty darned difficult to hack (spoof) a MAC address.  You can include the MAC addresses of every product on your network then limit the number of wireless ports that the router will provide IP addresses for. It would take someone who is a hard core, seasoned hacker. This is the option use - I run WEP/128 with 4 allowed IP addresses and have placed a neighbor's open router in my MAC exclude list. (also see #3 below)
3 items with Linksys routers -
1) change your admin password on the router - 'nuff said
2) change your SSID and block it after you get it set up. If they don't know your SSID, they can't get in and if you don't broadcast it, they'll need to run packet sniffers to get it and that's very advanced.
3) Make sure that all wireless devices support your protocol BEFORE you change to it. For instance, one of the Linksys wireless print servers does not accept any other format than WEP/128 and only the first security key phrase.

Bottom line: You will not stop a serious professional hacker focused on breaking your net security - but that is rarely what happens. The trick is to not give it away to anyone who drives by (war driving) - just make it difficult and time consuming and they will go look for a car with the keys in the ignition.

Well, out of Pittsnurgh, I'm getting
Your connection is:  7283  Kbps      (about 7.3 Mbps)
You downloaded at: 889 kB/s
Your TRuSPEED: ^info^ 7793 Kbps :: 951 kB/s (7% overhead factored)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-CVKPUZ758
...with WinXP, a wireless 802.11g router and running Norton AV.

My connection is standard Comcast 6M service
All I did was use CableNut with VanBuren's 6000/384 ccs file.

Hey! New to the group.... Studied up on the forums, didn't bug anyone and over the last week I went from about 2450Kbps to the stats below simply by using CableNut and VanBuren's version 7 XP 6000/384 ccs setup.

Running :
Comcast standard home service (should be 6m) out of Pittsburgh, PA
Linksys cable modem BEFCMU10 v2
Linksys wireless router WRT54G 802.11g
Laptop with onboard mini-pci wireless card

Original Stats I did not keep but averaged about 2450Kbps

Current Stats:
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 6209 Kbps about 6.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 758 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Sun Dec 25 22:55:46 EST 2005
Bottom Line:: 111X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.35 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 31.91 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-X14T029UL

This is AWESOME indeed !!!