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To Cholla, my MTU had been stuck at 1480 and in another forum someone told me about RASPPOE, so I dl'd it and thats when it moved up to 1484. I went here, https://www.speedguide.net/analyzer.php , and checked it. Also there they have an optimizer that "changed" the MTU to 1492, but the analyzer still shows as 1484. As I'm at work now, I'll do those ping test when I get home to see whats really going on. Thanks again for all the suggestions.

Here it is: TCP options string = 020405a401010402 MTU = 1484 MTU is somewhat optimized for broadband. If you're not on a PPPoE DSL connection that limits packet size, consider increasing your MTU to 1500 for optimal throughput. MSS = 1444 Maximum useful data in each packet = 1444, which equals MSS. Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 49368 RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits Unscaled Receive Window = 49368 For optimum performance, consider changing RWIN to a multiple of MSS. Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS: 508288 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8] 254144 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4) 127072 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2) 63536 (MSS x 44) bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test): Your RcvWindow limits you to: 1974.72 kbps (246.84 KBytes/s) @ 200ms Your RcvWindow limits you to: 789.888 kbps (98.736 KBytes/s) @ 500ms MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON Time to live left = 118 hops TTL value is ok. Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 11100000 (224) Precedence (priority) = 111 (Network Control) Delay = 0 (normal delay) Throughput = 0 (normal throughput) Reliability = 0 (normal reliability) Cost = 0 (normal cost) Check bit = 0 (correct, 8th checking bit must be zero) DiffServ (RFC 2474) = CS7 111000 (56) - class 7 (RFC 2474). Similar forwarding behavior to the ToS Precedence field. I'm not familiar with most of those numbers, other than MTU & RcvWin. I've tried setting the MTU to 1492 but it stays @ the 1484 for some reason. My router MTU is set @ 1500 so maybe this is OK? If theres anything else I can tweak I'd be happy to know about it. Thanks for your help.

You may be right, though I believe I'm on an RT. On another forum I was posting with a guy who lives close to me. He's lived here for sometime and said that this area was put on an RT a few years back D/T line sync problems. Where I lived before, I was on the Expert plan, 6000/784, but it wasn't available here. Well I guess I'll have to settle for the OK speeds. Thanks to all who gave their input.

My 'puter is scanned daily for AV & weekly for Spy-Mal ware. The AV prog I use is F-Secure and I use Ad-Monitor(Ad-Aware pkg with the F-Secure) for spyware. I have a modem with built-in router so i don't run any s/w firewall. Now here is the traceroute to mytest.net. Tracing route to testmy.net over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dslrouter 2 13 ms 16 ms 14 ms bras2-l0.okcyok.sbcglobal.net [151.164.182.199] 3 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms dist1-vlan50.okcyok.sbcglobal.net [151.164.23.13 0] 4 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms bb1-g1-0.okcyok.sbcglobal.net [151.164.23.225] 5 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms bb1-p7-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.240.102] 6 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms bb2-p4-0.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.191.118] 7 18 ms 18 ms 17 ms ex1-p2-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.40.33] 8 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 151.164.249.222 9 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 208.175.175.42 10 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms vl32.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.61] 11 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 12 30 ms 25 ms 27 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8 5] 13 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85 ] Trace complete. And thaks alot for your help.

I'm on SBC/ATT's 3000384 plan for $21.99/mo. Speeds are ok, but how do I get faster? ::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 2544 Kbps about 2.5 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 311 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server2) Test Time:: Wed Jan 18 2006 13:12:13 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 45X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.29 sec Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 98.34 % of your hosts average (swbell.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ON54Q8CL2

I have a 3000/384 DSL connection from SBC/ATT or whoever they are now. My download test is posted below. As you can see I'm running at 98%+ of average, but I've seen others getting more than average, or "Awesome!!" speeds. Though I live in the OK state, I'd like Awesome speeds.javascript:void(0); I've dl'd cablenut and used their generic adsl-fast settings but that actually slowed me down.javascript:void(0); I'm at a loss. javascript:void(0); ShockedPlease help me to be awesome. Any help would be appreciated. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 2544 Kbps about 2.5 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 311 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server2) Test Time:: Wed Jan 18 2006 12:26:32 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 45X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.29 sec Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 98.34 % of your hosts average (swbell.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-R2NEMBP3Q -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After searching more on the forum, I ran across the Vanburen tweak v.8. I applied it and rebooted and the results are the same: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 2506 Kbps about 2.5 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Download Speed is:: 306 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server2) Test Time:: Wed Jan 18 2006 13:28:19 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 45X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.35 sec Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 96.87 % of your hosts average (swbell.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QNF637MAX Is there anything else I can do? Thx again.