a year thats a long time, down here in Florida we already have places that have been switched over or are about to be switched over to comcast from adelphia.
yep, its just because your too far away from the server to get an accurate result, if netmeter is telling you that your download is at 50kb/s then you are good that is about 400kbps.
nikoy welcome to the forum.
the reason your speed test results are so much slower then what your netmeter says is because your are going a very long distance to the test server.
Run a trace route to testmy.net and post your results.
just want to let you know you added that to the wrong one.
This is weired why no one can get a good result from it. try a test directly from the server http://www.uploaddude.com/speed/speedtest/index.html (the upload portion will be alittle messed up something is wrong that i cant figure out)
i got a new mirror setup lets see what you all get from it.
http://www.testmy.net/o-mirror-dlewis23-4
My mirror:
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6174 Kbps about 6.17 Mbps (tested with 20972 kB)
Download Speed is:: 754 kB/s
Tested From:: http://uploaddude.com
Test Time:: 2006/08/28 - 8:43pm
Bottom Line:: 108X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.36 sec
Tested from a 20972 kB file and took 27.828 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 99.03 % faster than the average for host (bellsouth.net)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-9ONSXWMUL'>https://testmy.net/stats/id-9ONSXWMUL
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 [!]
Testmy.net:
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6286 Kbps about 6.29 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 767 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/08/28 - 8:47pm
Bottom Line:: 110X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.34 sec
Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 7.797 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 102.58 % faster than the average for host (bellsouth.net)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FI9P1WRUB
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 [!]