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Thanks DJ. I did that and my results were: Packets sent = 4, lost =0 (0% lost) Approximate round trip times time in milli-seconds: Monimum = 55ms, Maximum = 58 ms, Average = 57 ms So what does that mean? Thanks , Ken.

I'm running Spybot S&D, and no wireless network. By the way, looking at Van Burens tips, it asks, "What's your ping"? How do I find that out? Thanks.

Thanks for the welcome and advice. I'll check out the link to improve speed. I usually don't have any programs running when I surf except my anti-virus. So does it look like I'm running extremely slow? Earthlink advertises "up to 70 times faster than a 56k modem". If I'm running 21 times faster, I can't be running only 15% of my connect speed (this just occured to me).

Hi everyone, I'm using Earthlink adsl with advertised speeds of 3.0M/128k. When I run a speed test I get: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1159 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 579 KB) Download Speed is:: 141 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 21 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 7.26 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=B24CQUSEJ If my connection speed is 1159, that appears to me that I am connection at only a little over a third of advertised speed. If my download speed is 141kb's, it appears that I am only downloading at a little more than 10% of the connection speed. Is that right? Still way faster than 56k modem, but I thought it would be faster. Thanks for the help - Ken.