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Hi VanBuren, I will do and get back to you thanks. John

Hi and thanks for the help, I have tried the other bandwidth test and it came up with worse results and the mirror page gave similar results to the american server!!!!! dipite all that ocean. I have also tried changing my mtu level to 1492 and that did not seem to make any difference at all. This is driving me mad but maybe it is just my connection and that will be the best I can get, but I am sure it used to be faster. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. John

Hi tried setting the mtu level to 1500 stopped me from logging in msn messenger and surprisingly seemed to slow down my speed. It may be somthing to do with either my router or bulldog dsl. Any other suggestions? John

Hi, I have tried changing the MTU setting before to 1500 but had a few connection problems will try again and get back to you. John

Hi VanBuren, Well what ever you got me to do seems to have worked. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1672 Kbps about 1.7 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 204 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (main) Test Time:: Wed Apr 20 14:58:28 UTC+0100 2005 Bottom Line:: 30X faster than 56K 1MB download in 5.02 sec Diagnosis: Looks Great : 5.03 % faster than the average for host (bulldogdsl.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-T0UW9JMBK It still not fast as I would like but it is a big improvement. http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:4b35c2a?service=dsl&speed=2048&os=winXP&via=pppoA WEB100 Enabled Statistics: Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 240.98Kb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 1.01Mb/s ------ Client System Details ------ OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1 Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.4.2_06 ------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------ Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found. Link set to Full Duplex mode No network congestion discovered. Good network cable(s) found Normal duplex operation found. Web100 reports the Round trip time = 214.73 msec; the Packet size = 1360 Bytes; and There were 30 packets retransmitted, 17 duplicate acks received, and 36 SACK blocks received The connection was idle 0 seconds (0%) of the time This connection is receiver limited 11.15% of the time. This connection is network limited 88.82% of the time. Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to: RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF RFC 1323 Window Scaling: OFF Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address Server says Log created by AutoCheck.bat on 20/04/2005 Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=50 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 131ms, Maximum = 131ms, Average = 131ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mygateway.ar7 [192.168.1.1] 2 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms host-83-146-18-14.bulldogdsl.com [83.146.18.14] 3 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms host-83-146-17-110.bulldogdsl.com [83.146.17.110] 4 26 ms 25 ms 27 ms 195.50.117.109 5 27 ms 26 ms 29 ms so-0-0-0.gar1.London1.Level3.net [212.113.3.5] 6 26 ms 26 ms 27 ms ge-0-3-0-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.128.121] 7 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms ae-1-0.bbr1.London2.Level3.net [212.187.128.46] 8 100 ms 99 ms 100 ms as-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.128.102] 9 132 ms 131 ms 132 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.1.109] 10 131 ms 132 ms 132 ms ge-1-1-51.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.6] 11 132 ms 132 ms 132 ms 4.78.220.10 12 132 ms 132 ms 132 ms dist-vlan31.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29] 13 133 ms 133 ms 132 ms dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 14 134 ms 133 ms 133 ms gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69] 15 132 ms 133 ms 133 ms 85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. I hope this looks better to you to me it means nothing. With a 2MB adsl connection what speed should I expect. Thanks again for the help John

Hi, http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:32a946a?service=dsl&speed=2048&os=winXP&via=pppoA :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1181 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 144 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (main) Test Time:: Wed Apr 20 14:05:38 UTC+0100 2005 Bottom Line:: 21X faster than 56K 1MB download in 7.11 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 74.14 % of your hosts average (bulldogdsl.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-RJUPI0ZDM WEB100 Enabled Statistics: Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 241.37Kb/s running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 1.74Mb/s ------ Client System Details ------ OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1 Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.4.2_06 ------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------ Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found. Link set to Full Duplex mode No network congestion discovered. Good network cable(s) found Normal duplex operation found. Web100 reports the Round trip time = 269.04 msec; the Packet size = 1360 Bytes; and No packet loss was observed. This connection is receiver limited 83.50% of the time. This connection is network limited 16.46% of the time. Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to: RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: OFF RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF RFC 1323 Window Scaling: OFF Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address Server says [84 but Client says [192] Log created by AutoCheck.bat on 20/04/2005 Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=132ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=132ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=50 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 131ms, Maximum = 133ms, Average = 132ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mygateway.ar7 [192.168.1.1] 2 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms host-83-146-18-14.bulldogdsl.com [83.146.18.14] 3 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms host-83-146-17-110.bulldogdsl.com [83.146.17.110] 4 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 195.50.117.109 5 32 ms 27 ms 25 ms so-0-0-0.gar1.London1.Level3.net [212.113.3.5] 6 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms ge-0-3-0-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.128.121] 7 26 ms 26 ms 28 ms ae-1-0.bbr1.London2.Level3.net [212.187.128.46] 8 99 ms 99 ms 100 ms as-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.128.102] 9 132 ms 131 ms 132 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.1.109] 10 133 ms 132 ms 132 ms ge-1-2-52.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.38] 11 134 ms 132 ms 132 ms 4.78.220.10 12 134 ms 132 ms 134 ms dist-vlan31.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29] 13 132 ms 132 ms 135 ms dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 14 132 ms 132 ms 132 ms gig1-0-1.tp-car9-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.70] 15 132 ms 133 ms 133 ms testmy.net [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. Hope this all ok, and thanks again for the help. John

Hi looked at the advice from page made the advised changes, still same result :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1202 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 147 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (main) Test Time:: Wed Apr 20 13:13:13 UTC+0100 2005 Bottom Line:: 21X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.97 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 75.41 % of your hosts average (bulldogdsl.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-JAH4E768O Not tried cablenut not really sure what to do but have no adware or virus on my computer (that can be found). John

Hi, it is connected via an ethernet on a 100MB cat5 cable. Will look at post and get back to you. John

Hi and thanks for the quick reply. The router I have has the modem built into it so i don't thinkI would be able to do that.. Will still be able to make alterations as you advised? thanks John

Hi All,

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1856 Kbps about 1.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 227 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 33 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 4.51 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=E2ENXMQUL