i just ran some test with the comp hooked up directly to the modem.... i didn't have an option for 10mb half duplex so i set it to auto. at one point it was running fine but i didn't test it. websites now take a long time to load and i didn't mess with the settings and i had mcafee the whole time. These are the results with the comp plugged directly into the modem
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12
click START to begin
Connected to: nitro.ucsc.edu -- Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 1.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [s2C]) . . . . . . 634.27kb/s
Server unable to determine bottleneck link type.
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link
[C2S]: Packet queuing detected
click START to re-test
Connected to: nitro.ucsc.edu -- Using IPv4 address
Another client is currently being served, your test will begin within 45 seconds
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Protocol error!
click START to re-test
Connected to: nitro.ucsc.edu -- Using IPv4 address
Another client is currently being served, your test will begin within 45 seconds
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 18.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [s2C]) . . . . . . 3.41Mb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
Alarm: Duplex Mismatch condition detected Switch=Full and Host=half
[C2S]: Packet queuing detected
click START to re-test
Connected to: nitro.ucsc.edu -- Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 8.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [s2C]) . . . . . . 359.88kb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link
[C2S]: Packet queuing detected
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1447 Kbps about 1.45 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 177 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 358 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 44 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2007/04/14 - 5:47pm
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4MQZU8KP9
U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-JQAZUVS9F
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11 [!]