Mactron

Try a speed test site a little closer to you. Speed testing half way across the North American continent is not the best. 

Since your apparently in the Tampa FL area and the site here is in Dallas TX there's an awful lot of hops and losses along the way.

Try here... http://atl.speakeasy.net/  a couple times and post back what you get. HTH

According to the DSL Reports CO tester, I'm 6420 feet from the CO. Verizon says that won't get me 3.0 right now. From your experience is this legit?

Any sugestions to speed up my connection, in hardware, software...

Thanks

There is only one distance data base that counts in determining your speed with Verizon. That data base is... Verizon's 

No online distance data base / calculator or anything else counts with them. The Verizon data base is what they use. Period.

Sometimes they can be talked into doing a MLT (Mechanized loop test) to double check their numbers. But my understanding is it's like pulling teeth to get them to do one. Call several times to double check  your availability for 3m, but after a few tries it maybe hopeless. Goodluck, hope it works out for you.

I am wondering can you do that?? I went threw the options and didnt find anything on port forwarding or opening. 

I would think so. Did you look here... http://portforward.com/westell/Versalink327W.htm ?

I use to be a big believer in Maxtors... Until they bought out Quantum.     

Been buying Western Digital ever since.            YMMV

sygate for me

i find zone alarm too annoying now, but b4 i thought it to be the best 

Here too. I used ZA for the longest time. Recent versions have been just awful. Tried Sygate, liked it  and use it it on my Laptop when traveling/off my network now. At home I rely on my router to keep the nasties out.

and for fun

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

Connection is:: 47570 Kbps about 47.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

Download Speed is:: 5807 kB/s

LMAO !!!! 

I get my Fathers Day present tomorrow !!!  Our Daughter is moving out tomorrow as a transfer student and,  as a full Junior at University of California. Yes !!!    Her Mom and I have plans for tomorrow night !  It's been a LONG 20+ years. 

hehe thats funny....those ISPs cant do math o well, but is 86.7% good enough or can there be over 100%?

No Telco DSL or Telco DSL reseller gives full advertised speed.    There are overhead losses inherent that are just a fact of life. Some will "over provision" to offset some of those losses, but not all. Look my sig, click it. See, Verizon does over provision to some extent, but not enough to over come all the loses. I have "advertized" 3000/768. SBC in my experience does not over provision. Don't sweat it. Your looking good, and ready to FRAG ON !!!

wait is that fastest it gonna get for me or for xyther4523? cause mines is only 76%...

Actually your at ~86%.  1301/1500=86.7% Don't let the database for various ISPs here fool you. It's a tool, not an absolute.

Your on the money for 1500/384 SBC DSL. Nice ping times too. 

whats the difference?

One's memory. The other is storage. Completly different things. 

its reading it  now what

Your done. Enjoy !!! 

I just put a stick of memory in my pc but it didn

.. which 'raises the bar' so to speak

Looks like it's time to differentiate between Verizon FIOS and Verizon Online DSL  A  little SQL data base work maybe !?? 

not knowing if my speed is low due to my distance or if its really from latency or traffic.

Actually it's from both.  Sounds like your ready to cough up the buck$ for a  Seattle mirror !??  :D

Cool ,being I'm in CA It might be better than Dallas... Thanks again ! 

i hate waiting for antivirus programs i am just going to get avast or something if this keeps screwing up :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil3: :evil3:

WoW ! A free piece of software won't update for a day because a server problem and your going to dump it.  High expectations or much better luck with Freeware than I've had.  I've tried most of the Pay and Free AVs progs and I keep coming back to AVG. YMMV

Yes it was all Sc...up yesterday.    Worked fine this morning for me on the same two laptops. 

They just to have some days now and then when updates don't work. Why ? Who knows. YMMV

tell me what you think.

Hey !!!  My Mom has a coat made out of several of those guys .....Cool !!!!!! 

....and it's obvious your new to Dway... :haha:

And reality  will soon set in ...... :haha: :haha: .................

:shock: They still have that??? I thought it was outlawed couple years ago.

Na, that's just a I wanbe on the "REAL Internet" speed.  :haha: :haha:

Verizon does block port 80.  So i've heard.

They blocked port 80 inbound during the Code Red / nimda days and since only in the ex-BA areas.

In the ex-GTE areas  ( Thats ME  ) it's not blocked. What they are doing on FIOS, I haven't a clue. 

...just not sure on what the question is...

Had to make some assumptions here also. Just figured he's asking about advertised download speed. 

Maybe he is, but then again, maybe he's not.  Hmmmm... 

I use both encryption and mac filtering. It's not hard to do, It's called reading the manual ! 

Connection is:: 2821 Kbps about 2.8 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

That's 94% of advertised speed. That beats the 90% that is considered excellent by any standard I know of.. Why testmy.net says "only 86.03 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) " is beyond me.  I  pull 2800/700 day in day out on test sites that are close enough to me to be accurate.. Unless someone here knows something I don't, I'd say your doing great.

First, Flash is annoying !!!. So over done and yesterday. I avoid sites, especally "shopping sites" that use it.  Sorry, My opinion. Huge download. I have 3000/768 DSL and with the routing to where ever your server is, the max speed was ~50 kbps. Way to slow and to long to down load. I'd be long gone before ever seeing your site. HTH & YMMV

AVG Free 7.0.323 Works well for me !