joepep

Well I hooked in directly to the modem and got the same speed ..definitly something in my system.

the nic card is set at 100mps full duplex.

I am going to check out some more system settings and then probably get a new nic card  :sad3:

I have switched ports with my wife's and got the same thing

downloaded the malware remover and it did find a few things but it had no effect on the speed.

next i will hook up directly to the modem to see what that does . if that doesn't work I will call my ISP for tech support. If that doesn't work i might go wireless since my daughters computer is older than mine and she is getting better speeds wirelessly them I am with a wire.

windows xp media center 2002 edition

service pack 3

Dell xps dxpo51

Pentium R  cpu 2.8 ghz

3 igs ram

What is trident ????

I disabled all my virus protections and this is what I got

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 423 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)

Download Speed is:: 52 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/08/09 - 9:33am

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 19.69 sec

Tested from a 512 kB file and took 9.922 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 9.63 % of your hosts average (ptd.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-H1P4IJA26

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSN Optimized;US) [!]

I recently went to cable internet with service electric cable in northern new jersey.

I purchased the 10 meg plan ..

My wife's and my computer are both hard wired to the same router.

My wife consistently gets between 5 megs and 9 megs of speed

but the best I ever get is 1 meg of speed.

And I thought it might be my net cable so I bought a new cat 6 cable but still the same differences with speed.