razor, Insider and I are at peace. Never were at war--each just trying to get the other to see their point.
The conversation had to do with speed, as is the topic, but it did drift on an angle. Bring us back to the main intent you intended.
These speedtest sites are having a very hard time dealing with these higher level speeds so many of them are showing 15-20Mbps speeds. However the Tampa Bay Road Runner speed test site is clocking my connection at around 38Mbps when I don't use my current Trendnet router. When using my Trendnet router my speeds drop to about 25Mbps. My router is a bit old and quite often stops working and gets very slow until I reboot it. I'm not sure if this router is even high quality enough to handle these types of speeds with large file downloads.
Because of this I'm using my birthday Best Buy giftcard to buy a high quality router most likely a Linksys unless anybody has a better just as high quality if not better alternative.
Those of you who are reporting these >10Mbps speeds...what kBps download rate for saving file on computer do you USUALLY get when downloading a file (not the web page itself) using your browser?
This is the number reported in the dialog box during the download process.
I upgraded to the RR turbo plus or whatever they call it now, after I received an email about it last week. I had the 15 MB and the email said for $5 it was getting bumped up to 20 MB. I consistently get 20-21 with up to 30 with the boost. I'm in Palm Bay with Cfl BHN.
I didn't mean the highest...I should have said "typical."
That is interesting though. I show 10-12 Mbps speeds usually at the test sites, but on downloads, I range from 50-300MBps, with 150-250MBps being typical.
I already had RR turbo which was $10 more than standard RR. I believe that's why it was only $5 more for me.
im confused.. How could you be seeing speeks in the 250Mbit range when the highest nic card in the cable modems is 100mbit...
I erred when writing...It is not Mbit in the download dialog boxes; it is KBps, kiloBYTEs per second.im confused.. How could you be seeing speeks in the 250Mbit range when the highest nic card in the cable modems is 100mbit...
I agree. I just can't figure where to look for the problem, since in both the speedtest and the download, the traffic is going through the same router (mine in the house, I mean), the same computer, and the same browser. So, how could it be consistently so different?
Is the speedtest using a different protocol to deliver the test file transfer than a browser file download does? That's the only way I can see to account for a difference--like one is http and one is ftp, or something like that going on.
Have not tried direct to modem, but since the speedtest results are fine going through the router, I don't think it is the home router causing it.
I ran the SG_Vista_TcpIp_patch.cmd file from the linked site. We'll see. Hope that didn't mess anything up.
The TCP Optimizer you referenced does not apply to Vista!!!
LATER: Tried a dl of Avira Antivir from download.com, 29MB file. It was showing rates from upper 60's to low 80's KB/sec over the first minute, then I canceled. Looks like I have lost speed.