sirius05

I'm sorry to ask this, but i have heard it over and over and over again but never knew what it does or whats the purpose of it. I'm talking about PING. Can someone tell me what ping is and whats the purpose of it, because i play my xbox360 online everyday all the time, and i see by their names different ping numbers.. So can someone explain to me please what PING is, if the ping number is high is that good or is it supposed to be low or vice versa or what? Also, how can i find out what my Ping is, because i have no clue how to find out aswell as what it is. So please can someone explain this to me. Thanks Steve

Your connection is: 414 Kbps or 0.41 Mbps You Downloaded at: 51 kB/s You are running: 7 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 20.08 second(s) Member Ident: Username:sirius05 CompID:65606483470 Test Time:: 2006/04/14 - 8:49pm Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Test ID: T6I1EW9LF (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 15.88 % of your hosts average (sprint-hsd.net) This was tested from a 386 kB file and took 7.641 seconds to complete Your connection is: 428 Kbps or 0.43 Mbps You Uploaded at: 52 kB/s You are running: 7 times faster than 56K and can Upload 1 megabyte in 19.69 second(s) Member Ident: Username:sirius05 CompID:65606483470 Test Time:: 2006/04/14 - 8:52pm Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Test ID: WC3T6LJN7 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: Looks Great : 15.05 % faster than the average for host (sprint-hsd.net) This was tested from a 579 kB file and took 11.06976 seconds to complete Ok these are my results from my speed test. Now my questions is this... I have sprint dsl with the 3.0 megs/ 512 package deal. And according to my upload speed test, everything is perfect on that part. Now on my download test, that is something i'm curious about. Why does it say on the diagnosis info that it may need help since its running at 15.88% of my hosts average. Like my question is, that is there something i can do inorder to make my download speed faster and looks great like my upload speed or what do i have to do inorder to make that happen? Also, i have norton anti-virus protection on my computer turned on all the time, would that be the reason you think why its a little slow? Please let me know what ya'll think and what your opinions are. Thanks Steve [email protected]