as of 1:35 AM, finished installing comodo firewall, avast anti virus, ccleaner and spybot. finished running chkdisk and also scanned for virus, spyware, ran ccleaner, applied cablenut and tcpoptimizer, and defragmented the hard drive. here's results:
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 341 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Download Speed is:: 42 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/08/10 - 10:20am
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 24.38 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 13.907 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 78.75 % of your hosts average (241.45)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ZY36GPACD
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 [!]