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...and that is after hours of searching and tweaking. I even formatted the drive and did a clean install of XP...not much help as u can see. I just know I must be missing something obvious here, speeds others complain bitterly about would make me jump for joy : - ) System is Compaq Pres running 1.4 GH with 256MB SDRAM DW4000 through USB 2 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 40 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/04/18 - 7:44pm Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 204.8 sec Tested from a 97 kB file and took 19.718 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 3.82 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-JAG40HQPR User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) [!] Thanks in advance for ANY help!