beantown

This was after the afore mentioned tweak ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 4889 Kbps about 4.89 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 597 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 6:29am Bottom Line:: 85X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.72 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 10.025 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 2.09 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QPUJYME36 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 This is with IE ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 5035 Kbps about 5.04 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 615 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 6:33am Bottom Line:: 88X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.67 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 9.734 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 5.14 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-J3US6ODH4 User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) And this is the best I have ever seen. ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Connection is:: 6118 Kbps about 6.12 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 747 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/24 - 4:39pm Bottom Line:: 107X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.37 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 4.006 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 32.91 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-DRJGESPN8 Dam if I can only remember what Van Buren settings I had used I would go back to them. Crap should have left well enough alone!!! I know it's not bad but I have seen it do better. I have a sneaky suspiscion the computer geek in my nieghborhood is running a server. I'll confront the wanna be today to see if thats what he is doing Thanks again for the help! Shane

First of all thanks for the QUICK replies!!! Modern computer?? LOL Well if you consider a PIII running at 866MHz and 512 megs of ram a modern computer......LOL I do run a minimum of extentions in FF, image zoom, ad block plus, download status bar and IE view. I plan to update the mobo, processor and ram shortly but can't see where it's going to make a huge difference on my page loading. I agree that the pluses of FireFox far out weight the system EMBEDDED down sides of IE. I have not had a single issue with the typical browser hijackings and such that I consider plague IE. Again thanks for your help, and I'll give the tweaks a try. What an awesome website you have and I have to say that the download speed test are the most accurate on the internet by FAR!!! See ya, Shane

Can someone please tell me why my download speeds are so much slower with FireFox versus IE6 I se a 10%+ speed increase with IE. Any ideas on how to speed up FireFox? Thanks, Beantown PS. I have Carolina Road Runner 5000/384

Yes use the ethernet cable NOT USB!!!

Cleared cache and all. Man I swear they open up the pipe on the weekends to handle the traffic! Either way I LIKIE IT!!!! :) :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 8063 Kbps about 8.06 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 984 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/26 - 11:43am Bottom Line:: 141X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.04 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 6.079 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 75.02 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Y7ZKGFWJM

Thanks coknuck! I have a HP cordless rechargable mouse. And yes, I am running there drivers. Dang could this be part of a monolithic piece of software that they can't seem to live without??? Hmm kinda makes me think of himem.sys. Thanks again for the quick reply! Beantown

I have this running in taskmanager and cannot find out what the heck it is. I woould appriciate the help. Also in my registery I have duplicate entries that end in *.1 What would cause the duplicates and how do you clean them??? Regisrty Mechanic goes right by them like they aren't there! Thanks, Beantown

Got it tweaked now! :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 6042 Kbps about 6.04 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 738 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/21 - 2:27pm Bottom Line:: 105X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.39 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 4.056 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 31.26 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-V6O20XNA5 Yee Ha!

You are so correct. There are no perfect settings, I went back to the VB 6000 Ver 9 file and one tweak to firefox. Man what a difference. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 5969 Kbps about 5.97 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 729 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/21 - 5:45am Bottom Line:: 104X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.4 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 4.106 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 29.65 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FV5MWD9NC Now to work on my upload speed!

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms 10..*.*.* 3 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms gig2-1.chrlncmnr-rtr1.carolina.rr.com [24.93.65.81] 4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms srp0-0.chrlncsa-rtr3.carolina.rr.com [24.93.67.161] 5 10 ms 12 ms 10 ms pos3-0.chrlncsa-rtr2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.66.229] 6 11 ms 10 ms 8 ms 24.93.66.225 7 14 ms 16 ms 15 ms son1-0-3.rlghncrdc-rtr3.nc.rr.com [24.93.64.85] 8 25 ms 27 ms 25 ms 67.29.172.9 9 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms ae-1-53.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.121.65] 10 45 ms 43 ms 45 ms as-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.0.137] 11 43 ms 49 ms 44 ms ae-24-52.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.48] 12 51 ms 53 ms 47 ms 4.78.224.14 13 53 ms 49 ms 49 ms vl31.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29] 14 50 ms 49 ms 48 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83] 15 49 ms 48 ms 49 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 16 49 ms 50 ms 48 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. I'm confused. I have shut down my firewall, opened everything up on my gateway and I still get a time out on the first hop. Any ideas???

OK I just got done tweaking it with tcp optimizer, here are the results. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 5263 Kbps about 5.26 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 642 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/14 - 12:09pm Bottom Line:: 92X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.6 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 4.657 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Looks Great : 14.29 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-N27YGSH19 :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 372 Kbps about 0.37 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 45 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/14 - 12:15pm Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 22.76 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took 12.74784 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Looks Great : 7.51 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-KIFC1A4YD First test was with the VB 6000 file. why such a big D/L speed difference?

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4874 Kbps about 4.87 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 595 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/14 - 11:45am Bottom Line:: 85X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.72 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 5.028 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Looks Great : 5.84 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EH0QL4VRX :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 372 Kbps about 0.37 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 45 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/14 - 11:46am Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 22.76 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took 12.73824 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Looks Great : 7.51 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-TNSKYAZ97 I'm on arolina.rr and the house is 11 miles from town. I know I have 5000 d/l But have no clue about my upload speed. I guess I can't complain seem ok compared to others. See ya, Beantown