kingygy welcome to the forum.
since your in Brittan try this speed test first and post your results http://www.testmy.net/o-mirror-VanBuren
EDIT: do the 5mb test
mine was pertty good, just relaxed and worked on the cars on Saturday, had my moms b-day on sunday and just relaxed at the pool with my girl today now i gotta go to work tommarow
we all love picking on satelite users.
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6661 Kbps about 6.66 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 813 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/09/04 - 8:05am
Bottom Line:: 116X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.26 sec
Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 7.359 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 115.71 % faster than the average for host (bellsouth.net)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-MLDYOIC0G
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 [!]
just kidding
distance has something to do with it. Since i think its a 2mbps its eather a spyware thing, his computer has not been tweaked at all and it could also be he is too far from the CO to get a decent speed.