angiem Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hi; I have a question concerning download speeds. I have an AMD 2400 with 512 MB of ram and Windows XP home. I use a Dialup Lucent modem at 56 KB/sec. No matter what I do I always get a download speed of 4.5 KB/sec to 5.0 KB/sec on all downloads, large and small. I have used most of the tweakers and downloaders that their are, but no luck(multiple threads don't help). I have moved to different locations twice so it isn't my location. My question is this: is this a good speed or can I do better? What do the rest of you get?ThanksAngieMTitle edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1K Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 That is a very good speed for a 56K modem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bober Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 that's a great speed for dial-up. the best i ever got was 3.6k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 56Kb/s (56 kilobits) dialup, not 56KB/s (kilobytes).Maximum theoretical throughput is 7KB/s (kilobytes). Highest I've seen when I was on dial-up was 6KB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbolt 2864 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Really? The best speed I got for crappy dialup was an average of 4.5KB only. Never exceeded that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Trout Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Dial up speeds depend on various factors outside of your control, such as the quality of the phone cable outside your house. The best advice, is to plug your internet cable into the main socket in your house, and minimize the length of phone cable. You'll never get more than about 6kb/s though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 what ever connection speed is, divide by 8 and thats your maximum download speedits because Kb and kb/s are not the same thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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