whiteolorin

Don't go by anything the tweak tester says on broadbandreports.com if you use sattelite. It's giving the results from a server at the NOC, not your computer.

how did it get that small?

i used to get a signal strength of about 91. but then my DW6000 somehow got decommissioned. i had no internet access and so i called DW tech support. i waited an hour and 10 minutes to talk to someone who actually knew what they were talking about. well im not really sure anyone there actually knows what they are talking about but, they did fix my problem and got every thing working after they switched me to another sattelite. i would have thought that the antenna would have to be re pointed to do that, but they never said to do that and no one ever came and did it for me. so now i get a signal strength of about 45. it goes out every time it rains now. as soon as cable or dsl is available in my area i am throwing away my dw6000 and switching to the other service. i don't think i will ever have cable. the road i live on has cable running down it, but the thing is, my driveway is almost one mile long . the cable company won't run that one mile of cable for just one house.

by the way, i know this is in the comcast section, but those were direcway speeds.

i love firefox.

with IE i get -

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

Connection is:: 874 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 748 KB)

Download Speed is:: 107 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Bottom Line:: 16 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 9.57 second(s)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=FIQ6TD43G

with firefox

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

Connection is:: 1025 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 748 KB)

Download Speed is:: 125 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Bottom Line:: 18 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 8.19 second(s)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=8TNREQNYD

those two test were done one after the other and every time i compare speeds, firefox always turns out to be the faster browser.

DW6000 sucks. My normal download speeds are only 110 KB/s.

nvm

I'm glad you posted that. Direcway had tricked me into thinking I had great download speeds and that everything was correct. Now that I can compare my speed to another sattelite users speed, I can see that I'm running extremly slow. My speeds aren't even half of what you got.