First of all with DSL, that is pretty close.
You are running at 89% of your advertised speeds.
Second of all, are you on a router? If so try to test without it in the way.
Gotta love satelite at this time of day. WEE.
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 272 Kbps about 0.27 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 33 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/05/18 - 6:07pm
Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 31.03 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 89.953 seconds to complete
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 27.12 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-E1M9A2JWH
Woo Hoo!
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 88 Kbps about 0.09 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 11 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/05/18 - 4:58pm
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 93.09 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 53.82048 seconds to complete
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 93.62 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-MOFNQCADS
Gotta love satelite.