TheTroll

I was in contact with Access Communications, and they informed me that 30kb/s download and 12kb/s for uploads is average for my type of connection... I double checked their website and it did say 64kb/s for both up and down........ So it turns out it's just a simple case of false advertising.... Thanks for the help anyways.

Actually, i just found all the same websites and programs randomly on my own like http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ and I actually wrote my own version of check.bat to check my ping and tracert info. Lol, please note the sarcasm . No offense or anything, but If you would have read my post you would have noticed that. so, yes I did read that post, and I tried everything on it before I posted. Oh yeah, I should have added I'm using a direct connection through my SMC networks cable modem.

I just moved into a new house and here I have Lightspeed broadband (slow cable) but the speeds are advertised at around 64kb/s, and I'm only getting about 29kb/s. I've restarted in safe mode, ran avast antivirus, scandisk, defrag, spybot S&D, etc.... I've reset my modem (by using both the reset switch and disconnecting the power supply for 30 secs.) I removed ZoneAlarm and still had the same speed. Here is my info.. I dont really care about upload speeds, i'm just trying to get my download speeds up a bit. I realize that even 64kb/s is painfully slow, but i'm not worried about it, I usually just download stuff while i sleep anyways. Anyways, here's my info. Any help would be greatly appreciated. OS: Win ME ISP: Access Communications Advertised speed: 64kb/second (up and down) I've tried cablenut and it's made no difference. www.speedguide.net TCP/IP Analyzer info: TCP options string = 020405b401010402 MTU = 1500 MTU is fully optimized for broadband. MSS = 1460 Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which equals MSS. Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 17520 RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits Unscaled Receive Window = 17520 RWIN is a multiple of MSS Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS: 513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 256960 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4) 128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2) 64240 (MSS x 44) bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test): Your RcvWindow limits you to: 700.8 kbps (87.6 KBytes/s) @ 200ms Your RcvWindow limits you to: 280.32 kbps (35.04 KBytes/s) @ 500ms Consider increasing your RWIN value to optimize TCP/IP for broadband. MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON Time to live left = 121 hops TTL value is ok. Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000 (0) Testmy.net results: Connection is:: 238 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Download Speed is:: 29 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Wed Jan 4 19:14:39 CST 2006 Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB download in 35.31 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 14.03 % of your hosts average (accesscomm.ca) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-BRIJOG2H1 http://nitro.ucsc.edu/ UCSC Web100 based Network Diagnostic Tool results: TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d click START to begin Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 127.50Kb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 246.09kb/s Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link Information: The receive buffer should be 65.00 Kbytes to maximize throughput Check.bat Results: urrent date is Wed 04/01/2006 Current time is 19:24:40.27 Windows Millennium [Version 4.90.3000] Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=47Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=47Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=47Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=47Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 110ms, Average = 109ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms 13 ms <10 ms 10.32.1.1 2 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms docsis-interconnect.regina.accesscomm.ca [24.72.99.249] 3 28 ms 13 ms 14 ms A-p10-0-0-S1.gw2.cal1.rogerstelecom.net [204.50.53.65] 4 27 ms 14 ms 14 ms g11-0-4-S1.bb1.cal1.rogerstelecom.net [204.50.251.193] 5 55 ms 55 ms 55 ms p4-0-S1.bb1.tor1.rogerstelecom.net [204.50.128.61] 6 54 ms 55 ms 55 ms p2-1-S1.bb1.mtl1.rogerstelecom.net [209.5.21.50] 7 97 ms 82 ms 82 ms sl-gw1-pen-13-3.sprintlink.net [144.228.166.13] 8 83 ms 96 ms 82 ms sl-bb20-pen-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.1] 9 110 ms 109 ms 110 ms sl-bb27-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.65] 10 110 ms 110 ms 110 ms sl-st20-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.136] 11 109 ms 110 ms 110 ms sl-theplanet-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.244.142] 12 110 ms 110 ms 110 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30] 13 137 ms 110 ms 124 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83] 14 137 ms 110 ms 123 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 15 110 ms 109 ms 124 ms 85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete.