Mr_Coffee

O.K, I've been having some trouble with my internet speeds. I'm running Windows XP Professional with SP2. Now let me clear this up first of all. The computer I'm trying to speed up is a laptop with built in wifi. I am accessing the internet through a Wireless router (a Netgear WPN824). The router is quite good and delivers consistent speed. Normally I'd blame the lower performance on the fact that I'm wireless, but my other computer (hardwired through the router using the same connection) gets even WORSE scores then the ones below for this laptop. I disabled WEP and WPA to ensure that these features weren't lowering my speed. I'm almost sure it's the connection. As I stated in the topic, my advertised speeds are 6 Mbps. However, my results are as followed.... While 4.51 Mbps is certainly fast, it's nowhere near 6 megs. I'm paid an extra 2 dollars a month for 6 Mbps (versus 4). That's TWO dollars, people! My life savings. My upload speeds are as followed.... Now that's just sad. Three times lower then the advertised 768 Kbps? I've done all the basic stuff, cleared my cache (on both computers), and updated my drivers and firmware. Also checked for viruses, spyware... yada yada. Any tips?