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i would just like to thank this website, and netmasta in general, for helping me with my speed problems. i am now 7% over my advertised which is great!

i have two more things to add. Does using firefox as a browser change any of this. Also, does having a wireless connection go through a floor slow down the connection? would it be faster if i wired it instead?

i have another question. I have 3 computers hooked up to my cable router. Is there anyway i could limit the amount of bandwidth to two of the computers, so i can have more focused on the third?

i am confused about the cablenut settings.

Please help me with my cable. I am only getting 60% apparently.. I am new to this, so i am pretty much following the howw-to guide. I have Comcast High Speed Cable, with a advertised rate of 3250 Kbps, i think. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1980 Kbps about 2 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Download Speed is:: 242 kB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Tue Mar 22 2005 20:22:34 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 35X faster than 56K 1MB download in 4.23 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 61.57 % of your hosts average (Comcast.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-H4BGNOKLF this is the tweak test. http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:420b001?service=cable&speed=3250&os=winXP&via=normal Here is my speed vs testmy.net Log created by Check.bat on Tue 03/22/2005 Pinging testmy.net [67.19.36.6] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.19.36.6: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.19.36.6: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.19.36.6: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.19.36.6: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=47 Ping statistics for 67.19.36.6: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 75ms, Average = 58ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 17 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.98.88.1 3 11 ms 8 ms 11 ms ge-0-2-ur01.elizabethtow.pa.pa04.Comcast.net [68.87.45.197] 4 21 ms 8 ms 7 ms srp-8-1-ar01.lebanon.pa.pa04.Comcast.net [68.87.45.1] 5 11 ms 15 ms 12 ms pos-7-0-cr01.harrisburg.pa.core.Comcast.net [68.87.19.185] 6 32 ms 32 ms 41 ms 12.118.104.53 7 34 ms 33 ms 31 ms tbr2-p011801.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.62] 8 41 ms 46 ms 40 ms tbr2-cl7.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.46] 9 54 ms 56 ms 52 ms tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90] 10 52 ms 58 ms 59 ms gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.196.97] 11 53 ms 48 ms 50 ms 12.119.136.14 12 58 ms 55 ms 60 ms dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30] 13 50 ms 60 ms 49 ms dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 14 60 ms 56 ms 55 ms gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 15 67 ms 60 ms 67 ms 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6] Trace complete. I have tried doing all of the ffixes and stuff, but nothing seems to work. Perhaps i am doing it wrong. Also, i am behind a linksys wrt54g wireless router, if that changes anything. Also, when i have a bittorrent client open, my internet speed drops dramatically. Even if i have speeds of 5kB down 3kB up, everything slows down and i get tons of time outs.