DSL speed help

[cjdave]

Lately I have needed to power cycle my router 2 times a day or my speed drops to about 300k. After cycling the router the speed goes back up to 1500.

Is this something that I just have to live with? or is their something I can change in my system?

Also any help on tweeking more speed out of my connection would be greatly appreciated

OS: win XP

Verizon dsl

(test is from right after power cycle on router)

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

Connection is:: 1472 Kbps about 1.5 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)

Download Speed is:: 180 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (main)

Test Time:: 2006/03/05 - 5:35pm

Bottom Line:: 26X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.69 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 30.15 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-XEPQ5UOKD

TCP properties for IP =

Browser/OS = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Notes: Read the Analyzer FAQ if the above is not your IP address.

TCP options string = 020405ac01010402

MTU = 1492

MTU is optimized for PPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising MTU to 1500 for optimal throughput.

MSS = 1452

MSS is optimized for PPPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising your MTU value.

Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 34848

RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits

Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 34848

RWIN is a multiple of MSS

Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:

511104 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of

255552 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)

127776 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)

63888 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your TCP Window limits you to: 1393.92 kbps (174.24 KBytes/s) @ 200ms

Your TCP Window limits you to: 557.568 kbps (69.696 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 41 hops

TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000 (0)

27698085 connections tested

Thanks!