FJRMaineiac

As one of the legions of frustrated DW users, I have so far put up with their poor (charitable adjective) performance. However, I have found myself working from home more lately, but I am pulling my hair out trying to get any meaningful work done. I see people posting download speeds over 1K - I have NEVER had that pleasure. Here are a few random speed tests from today: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 266 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 32 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Thu Sep 15 2005 21:45:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB download in 32 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 32.92 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QL9UTZCM6 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 109 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 13 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Thu Sep 15 2005 11:20:17 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB download in 78.77 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 13.49 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Y8HD1NS9P :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 615 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Download Speed is:: 75 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Thu Sep 15 2005 11:03:04 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K 1MB download in 13.65 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 76.11 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-VL34B6O5A The last one is the only one approaching "normal" for DW, and it is still awful. I won't even go into upload speeds (I find myself using dial-up sometimes if I have a lot to upload - no joke!). I have tried several DrTCP tweaks, cablenuts tweaks, and all of the self help stuff from DW, and this is the best I can do. To be honest, I can't say that I have noticed much of a change throughout the day or throughout the tweaks I have tried. I am begging Verizon to move up their FIOS roll-out, or to get Adelphia to run cable out here, or for a WISP to put up a tower or SOMETHING . Until then, I am trying to wring out whatever I can from what I have got. For the record, that includes: DW4000, WinXP Pro, AMD Athlon 2000+, 512MB RAM, and a huge headache. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.