Nevermind/ thanks

[fredtam]

Why am I only getting 34Kb/s on a 3Mb connection? What should I test for?

 

[Nebor]

Hepatitis.

 

[FrustratedUser]

dslreports.com

 

[Schadenfroh]

people stealing your bandwidth? aka modem uncappers and pr0n downloades in adjacent apartment building?

 

[jagec]

Cable? Tough, if a lot of people sign up, your speed goes down. Not to mention it might be on the other end...

 

[Chaotic42]

Head over here and run some of the tests like "dropped packets".

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: jagec
Cable? Tough, if a lot of people sign up, your speed goes down. Not to mention it might be on the other end...

I'm the only one on the line from the connection on this street.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: fredtam
Why am I only getting 34Kb/s on a 3Mb connection? What should I test for?

turn off the 15 bittorrents you got going. viola, instant speed.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: KLin
viola, instant speed.

He's asking about the internet, not music.
😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

Wrong forum. And yes, I do check some of the technical forums whenever I'm on. And networking is one of them.

 

[fredtam]

Nevermind. Back up to speed. Must have been on their end. That was a very annoying 30 minutes. Hope I never have to go back to dial up.