Poor test results, IE ok, Opera bad

[victord66]

I've run the download test on both IE and Opera:

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

Connection is:: 889 Kbps about 0.89 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 109 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2006/04/16 - 8:26am

Bottom Line:: 16X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 9.39 sec

Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 27.563 seconds to complete

Opera/9.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 37.48 % of your hosts average (bell.ca)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-3LC2BYW90

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

Connection is:: 3359 Kbps about 3.36 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 410 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2006/04/16 - 8:17am

Bottom Line:: 59X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.5 sec

Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 7.297 seconds to complete

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 41.13 % faster than the average for host (bell.ca)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EOH4K3PCL

Opera seems very poor while IE seems great.  Could anyone advise me on how to speed up Opera as it really is my preferred browser.

Many thanks.