ArcticWolf

5meg down/ 800 up package

does anyone have the residential 5 mb service?  how are the speeds..are they always close to the max?

Wow to bad I haven't seen this earlier, but I only upgraded to the 5meg package about 2 months ago due to having line quality problems which have been repaired, but here is a test with the 5 meg package. Like 4.83megs down 

Not to shabby from Montreal,Canada 

Pinging google.com [64.233.167.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=243

Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=243

Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=243

Reply from 64.233.167.99: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 64.233.167.99:

    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

    Minimum = 29ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 29ms

5meg down/800 up

$29.95/month

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::

Download Connection is:: 4880 Kbps about 4.88 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)

Download Speed is:: 596 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 607 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 74 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2007/03/26 - 11:19pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4F8QLGSKU

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-I82R4CDN5

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 [!]

Pretty impressive, wish i could come close to that download speed,but here are my results

edit: url removed from image

Actually it's been posted several times...

Sorry about that php ... i had no idea, did a search query for it under "www.speedtest.net" and nothing came up 

My bad

From what i can tell it hasn't been posted here at TMN yet.... it's pretty accurate.

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

ArcticWolf

Ok if i click on properties of my DSL connection it says under Details, gives me my ip addy,DNS's etc... under compression it says none.... but under my properties for my network card, i have ip header compression turned on and i also have software compression turned on, so can someone explain to me why compression isn't working?

I'm running on Win XP sp2

Thanks

I don't get it, how can a computer be too old to do a speed test??

Well that's simple, when you run a Pentium 2  337mhz,with Win XP and 128megs of Ram and the new java script taking up resourses and lagging your whole computer and a slow ATA33 3.2gig hard drive.

About a week ago,i called my ISP and asked to move from my 3 meg package to a 5 meg package... they said that my line couldn't handle 5 megs because of line quality, so they said they can milk it to 4megs.... i said to them why not.... so they changed it, according to speakeasy test I went from a 306Kb/s download to 412Kb/s ... which is great, but only on a speed test do i get those speeds, if i download a program from a website I'm getting less then my original 306Kb/s .... so what I need to know is where there is a good reliable program i can download...a large file... cause I tried downloading Google Earth, cause Google should have a good bandwidth. Anyhow, anyone have any ideas? If I could do a speed test @ testmy.net I would...but my computer is to old for that.

I personally use VLC Media player.... it's great if you have a slower computer, and you don't need to have divX because it comes with the program I believe ,it also plays quicktime files without having to download quicktime. Take snapshots of videos,etc.

thanks guys, it's nice to know I'm not the only who can't find em, although there is shortcut keys which do work, such as ctrl-t for new tab and ctrl-w for closing the tab and ctrl-tab to view the new tab..... but it stilll sucks cause what if you forget you have tabs open.... they still need major work on this IE 7 if M$ wants to put out competition.

I swear either I'm as blind as a bat, but I can't see the tabs anywhere, if I click on open link on new tab, nothing is shown anywhere.... unlike Maxthon where it's easy as pie. Anyone have an idea or can post a pic of where they are located, thanks.

34 here

Yep it's lookin good

Page created in 0.155 seconds with 23 queries

Great work CA3LE 

I found the Vista pack, that I am using now, it works well,except for the sidebar, uses up 100% of the cpu. Anyways here is the link http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_2_219_17682.html

And I'll attach what it looks like

It's a longhorn transformation pack

http://www.soft32.com/download_3720.html

Yes (LOL) If he wants to figure out how to get passed the DRM  he can PM me. The method used is not exactly the stuff M$ likes to see.

I left you a PM,so We can keep this board clean

ok I clicked on video but the file I wish to burn is not on the list, only other videos which I have in that directory. Plus what if I wanted to take clips that need a license and join them together to make a compilation CD, I can't 

Well before i start to offer technical, and more sneaky ways to get passed it let me first ask this. Usually when you purchased movie files or music files protected by DRM the place you got them from allows you  to burn x amount of copies of the material you purchased, but the thing is you usually have to do the buring process through Windows Media player have you tryed to burn them to a disk via WMP yet?

Well I checked under the Burn tab in WMP 10, and it only says audio  ,which to me means audio as in music, maybe I'm wrong... just didn't risk it cause I didn't want to waste a CD.

I've ran into similar issues before, and got around them. It sounds like M$ DRM (Digital Rights Management) to me. Give some more info about the files types you are trying to burn, and i bet i can get you around the flakey DRM.

I have an account at http://www.danni.com/ and they are (wmv) format, I thought maybe I can convert them to a different format after getting the license and playing it, but no dice there.

About what should I set it at to get the best download speeds? I have a 6Mbps dl cap and around 250 upload.

Thanks

This should help out anybody using utorrent

http://ut-settings.go.pl/

Ok here's the deal, I pay for access to a website @ 19.95/month .... now if I download any movies, I have to stay connected to the net and get a license to play it. I know they want to protect there movies, but I should have the right to burn them onto CD if I wish to do so, heck I pay the 19.95/month. And what happens if the site goes down and disappears??? Us buyers are the ones who get screwed. Unless somebody around here knows what I can do so I can actually burn these and not have to get the license online and enjoy the movies for many years to come. Love to hear your input on this and if you found a way around this problem.

I just got a brand new computer and have been trying to switch the hard drives. Ive done it many times, but for some reasn, my new computer wont read any of my HDs. Ive tried SATA and it worked fine. The IDE wont

detect at all.... Any help?

Check your Bios settings, like on my old computer... you had a choice to boot from SCSI or IDE,if you had IDE choosen then SCSI wouldn't work. Might not be your problem but worth a look.

Here you go

http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Quantum_Fireball_Lct15_20_GB_QML20000LC_A