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If you have disabled all startup items, and your speeds are still fluctuating as much as you have shown from the 2 tests in your first post, then you either have line issues, or spyware/virus issues. Judging from your trace, it is likely a line issue, but you can at least run some scans to rule out the other. Try these: http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan http://housecall.trendmicro.com http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

Looks like there is some latency through the Level 3 network (again), judging from your last trace there. Unfortunately, not much you can do about that. You may be able to gain some speed that you are losing due to software. The best way to start is to go into the System Configuration Utility (msconfig) and disable all the entries under the Startup tab. You may want to copy down which items are enabled before you do this so that you can restore them later. After you have disabled all, apply changes and restart the computer. As soon as you come up, run a speedtest (don't browse around too much, as you have most likely just disabled your security). You should also disable any additional toolbars/extensions on your browser. If you notice that the speeds have now increased, you know that something that you are loading at startup normally is causing you to lose speed. Now you can start up one item at a time, and run a speedtest after you load each one to compare before/after.

Welcome to the forum, youngmaster. What are you advertised speeds? Have you tried testing from one of the European or Australian mirrors at the bottom of this page: http://www.testmy.net/tools/mirrors.php BTW, English please!

What is the name of the wireless adapter you are using? What router? How far are you from the router? What is the signal strength?

This is not totally related, but I thought it was kinda cool....using ActiveX to insert active spreadsheets into html.

I've never used any of these, but are some free solutions I found: Crawler Parental Control: http://www.popularshareware.com/Crawler-Parental-Control-download-33426.html K9 Web Protection: http://www.k9webprotection.com/index.html Safesquid Content Filtering Proxy: http://safesquid-content-filtering-proxy.office-efficiencies-india-private-limi.qarchive.org/

I don't see any problems:<hr> :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 622 Kbps about 0.62 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Upload Speed is:: 76 kB/s Tested From:: http://hem.bredband.net Test Time:: 2006/08/10 - 2:13am Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 13.47 sec Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 13.35072 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 25.4 % faster than the average for host (cgocable.net) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-TPAI4J6C5 User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) [!]

Cool. I'll take a look around for some free/trial partitioning software/disk utility.

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Come on over, buddy!

Brutal!

Enter: Partition Magic.

is that a Douglas Adams allusion?

Great idea, disturbed

Sweet, lemme know how it goes.

Download and upload you will have to get from your ISP if you don't already know. Easiest way to find latency is to download a large file (>=200MB) and run a traceroute to that site. Your latency will be shown as the highest time in the traceroute. Your MTU should likely be 1500.

ASP would work as well. http://asp.net/

Hi mrproper. You might be interested in using Cablenut to tweak your TCP settings, like RWIN. You can check out our guide: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-1013. There are also pre-compiled cablenut files in the zip files titled "VanBuren's Cablenut Settings." RWIN refers to the TCP setting known as Default Receive Window. This is an assigned value which defines the maximum (scaled) number of bytes that your PC can handle at one time in network traffic.

I believe this can be programmed using javascript, too.

I have had trouble installing wireless card drivers on a couple of different linux distros. I am not very familiar with Ubuntu. The best luck I had was with Mandriva. You can use the HardDrake utility to install precompiled drivers, or use it to install the drivers using a Windows NDIS wrapper from the driver CD. You can get the latest release of Mandriva from the official site http://www.mandriva.com/en/download or get the ISO torrent from this site: http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/BitTorrent (you may need to join first)

Maybe this will help: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-13965 Any questions or clarification, please ask. Some preliminary questions: Is the PC directly connected to the modem? (ethernet or usb?) Are you getting an IP address? What IP?

I'm not positive about the legalities, but it boils down to a moral issue: if your neighbour's car was unlocked with the keys in the ignition, would you take it for a joyride without their permission?