Anisaz

Thanks. I would like to try solving the problem myself before calling my ISP as they have a practice of capping speed even below the advertised level. If I were to call them they would probably just limit both my ul and dl speeds. Since it seems I already have a good upload speed it would be nice if I could bring my dl speed to match it. They might be testing their new technologies on humans but they didn't tell me anything about it.

The advertised speed of my old cable connection was 1024Kbit/s. In practice, I used to get about 30KB/s upload. This new fibre optic thing is just being introduced to existing subscribers and isn't advertised in their offers.

My ISP (RDSLink) recently switched me to a FTTH connection I connect to using the built-in WinXP PPPoE software. However the results are pretty weird: dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-03-31 15:24:39 EST: 176 / 1105 Your download speed : 176 kbps or 22 KB/sec. Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked? Your upload speed : 1105 kbps or 138.1 KB/sec. (yes I have tweaked and followed the recommendations) On www.testmy.net: 197 Kbps or 0.2 Mbps (24 kB/s) download 1346 Kbps or 1.35 Mbps (164 kB/s) upload The results above are understated though. When downloading from the net I reach a reasonable 90KB/s speed. The real shocker is that on uploading (including torrents) I get upwards of 500KB/s (4Mbit/s)! (the advertised bandwidth of my ISP is 1024Kbit/s). It is interesting to note that the upload reaches speeds above 100KB/s only when there is no simultaneous download. I would appreciate your help, obviously not to decrease my upload speed , but to bring my download speed up to the mark.