coldoven Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 I'm running at 56 with wireless and about 100 with ethernet....Is this slow? I've got Verizon's deal. But I gotta wonder if its worth it... isnt dial up like 50 Mbps, or am I wrong here? It really doesnt seem that much faster than my old free dial up connection.I secured my wireless with WPA-PSK but could somebody still be piggybacking my network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart of borg Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Cable is, on average, around 1.5 to 1.7 Mbits per second, T1 is around the 2.0 Mbit mark....... ADSL is way down the list at around 500 to 750 Kbits per sec.....As for you Wifi being hijacked......WPA-PSK is pretty good for home use.....If someone has a passkey cracker they can still get in though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldoven Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 When I open Network Connections and check the status on my wireless network, next to speed, it reads, 54 Mbps. How can this be? From what you say, that kinda speed should seem impossible... but it still seems slow to me. Ethernet reads around 100 Mbps for speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 When I open Network Connections and check the status on my wireless network, next to speed, it reads, 54 Mbps. How can this be? From what you say, that kinda speed should seem impossible... but it still seems slow to me. Ethernet reads around 100 Mbps for speed.That is usually your network card's maximum speed or the speed at which it is capable of transferring at over your network, not the Internet.Test your speed here:http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldoven Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 That was a really cool link, with my wireless connection I came in at about 722 kbps for downloads and 132 kbps for upload. From what I understand, thats actually pretty good for DSL, right?... or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcat42141 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 I'm running at 56 with wireless and about 100 with ethernet....Is this slow? I've got Verizon's deal. But I gotta wonder if its worth it... isnt dial up like 50 Mbps, or am I wrong here? It really doesnt seem that much faster than my old free dial up connection.I secured my wireless with WPA-PSK but could somebody still be piggybacking my network?Hey there try out this little product here -- http://www.cablenut.com/ Download the CableNut program and the Updates also. I used this on my Cable network and increased my speeds by 2Mb/s. I know that they have preset settings for DSL in it also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldoven Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 thanks phatcat, ill check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 To test your speed you can download a large file from Microsoft's download server. They have huge amounts of bandwidth, usually you'll get speeds much higher than on the speed-testing sites. They have enough bandwidth to saturate a normal DSL or cable connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I tried the cablenut program Cool 6092 kbs d/l connection 761 d/l rate--358kbs u/l 44.8 u/l rateIncrease of about 10%Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouki Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I got an increase using the ADSL2MUE Router. (I have ADSL, not ADSL2).TEST SPEED SCREENSHOTI was around 1.5 with the standard modem for my ISP.Im pretty happy with the results now, however, the modem is a pain in the @$$ to configure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Press any key Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 When I open Network Connections and check the status on my wireless network, next to speed, it reads, 54 Mbps. How can this be? From what you say, that kinda speed should seem impossible... but it still seems slow to me. Ethernet reads around 100 Mbps for speed.That is usually your network card's maximum speed or the speed at which it is capable of transferring at over your network, not the Internet.Test your speed here:http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/That was a really cool link, with my wireless connection I came in at about 722 kbps for downloads and 132 kbps for upload. From what I understand, thats actually pretty good for DSL, right?... or not? Last Result:Download Speed: 0 kbps (0 KB/sec transfer rate)Upload Speed: 68 kbps (8.5 KB/sec transfer rate)Guess I'm not really here at MSFNPS. My actual download speed is 230 Kbps (on a 256 Kbps Wireless Braodband) as per WinXP SP2 Task Manager - Networking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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