What broadband speed am I getting?
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type modem test in your search engine\nseveral sites can show you what you've got under the hood
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That's the maximum bandwidth. You'll never have all the time that ammount. Ask them what's the minimum bandwidth guarantee and the usual one. They should tell you because it's written in the contract!
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I've used the online bandwidth speed checkers.  I cannot vouch for their reliability, but it does seem to work.  Check out these  source links or google "bandwidth tests"
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Max rate (raw) for 802.11a is 54 Mbps
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I searched for "free bandwidth test" on Yahoo! and this was the very first result:\n\nhttp://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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512 kbps I am using DSL
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if you plug it in, and it goes online, you're online. you don't install broadband, you just pay the subscription and surf away!
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I am in the beginning stage of this battle as well.  Four months ago, I upgraded from basic to pro, only to find that my download speed has not increased.  Upload has increased approximately 15-20% to 410Kbps.  I've contacted AT&T Yahoo, only to be given the script trouble-shooting answers such as, "Clear Cookies, Delete Files and History.  Allow all Cookies, turn off Internet Security" and turn 360 degrees, reboot your machine, reload OS, and chant a Christmas Jingle.  I have not quite gotten the rewire the house telephone lines or rework the plumbing request, but I'm sure that'll be the next one.  They've refutted my theory that it could possibly be the three-year old SpeedStream 5360 DSL router that's causing the bottle-neck, since 3.0Gbps wasn't even a techie's wet-dream when the router was designed....  Sorry that I don't have an answer for ya' - just wanted to let you know that you're not alone on this one.
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Modem is snail-speed (28kbps), DSL much much faster (up to 1GB transfer), T1/T3 the fastest of the lot (this is where you want to go.  Good luck.\n\nTake an example:\n\nyou want to download an mp3 song that is 4MB in size.  If you download from someone:\n\nwith a modem = > 1 hours\nwith DSL (broadband) = 2 - 3 minutes\nwith T1/T3 (eathernet) = less than a 1 minute !!\n\nSpeed will also depend on how YOU connected.  if you have a modem and download from DSL or T1/T3 it will still be slow obviously. But if you have broadband and choose to download from a broadband user it will be fast!!
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Check this link out.  It tests how fast your DSL/CABLE/BROADBAND runs.  Whichever term u use to get online..it does it :)  Hope it worls out for ya :p\n\nhttp://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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Ask your ISP to make a update on your bandwidth...
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that is the nature of 802.11b wirleless networks.  They get a theoretical maximum of 11 megabits per second (not to be confused with megabytes per second).  In reality 802.11b delivers only about 5-6mbps.  Meanhile, an ethernet has three common speeds 10mpbs, 100(most common), and 1gbps(1000mpbs).  These are all faster than 802.11b's speed.
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well 11mbps is still faster than your Internet. If you get a new router that is 54mbps or 108mbps is is useless unless you want to share data from computer to computer.
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Actually that is average for a 56k modem to run at.  Internet is not a gauranteed thing--it will never run at what it is supposed to.  I would suggest getting DSL/Broadband, you will be much happier.\n\nWhy you ask?\nMillions of other users on at the same time creates noise on the lines, breaking up your data at times, which will make it come in slower to your computer.  Plus, it has to travel over lines and lines and lines--the further away the information is coming from the longer it will take to get to you.
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check your internet download and upload speeds here\n\nDownload Speed\nhttp://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp\n(Ex.  Mine is 5081Kb/sec)\n\nUpload Speed\nhttp://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/BandwidthUp.asp\n(Ex. Mine is 1295Kb/sec)\n\npost the results.  Contact your ISP and ask them if they are having problems and see if they can tell you what your DL and UL speeds SHOULD be.\n\nAlso, in response to funQT's post below, deleting your cookies is fine - but your temporary internet files, while they can and should be deleted every so often, actually speeds up your system.  Certain content on websites is downloaded directly to your PC for faster access when you revisit the page.  Instead of loading everything again from the internet, it loads directly from your hard drive - thus increasing the speed in which the page loads.  For pages that are uploaded frequently, you will want to delete this to get the latest version of the page, not the old version that was cached.\n\nCheck for spyware, as well.\n\nFirst of all, in response to notrix, not everybody has the "two computer" icons when connected to the internet through broadband.  I know I don't.  \n\nIf you click the links I posted above the websites will test your download and upload speeds.  You may want to try it a few times and get an average.  24Mb/sec is probably the internal transfer rate of your network card, not your actual external net speed.  If you are using newer DSL service (they've recently upgraded their speeds), you can expect to get anywhere from 256Kb/sec to 3Mb/sec download and 128Kb/sec to 1Mb/sec upload on average (just a ballpark, I didn't actually research the speeds) - this is also dependant on what type of service you have with the provider.  Usually they offer multiple options where you can pay more to get faster connections.  However, with DSL - the farther you are from the host, the slower your connection.  Whereas with cable, the distance is not a factor, but the number of people online that are in your specific node will affect speeds.
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Note sure how you tested the speed, but you should first use a connection speed test program (many out there, for example http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html). Your BB provider may also have a test program. \n\nIf it looks like the speed is still slow afer testing, there is little you can do on your computer (download accelerators do not help w/ large files, just web pages), and you need to call your BB provider to see if the line to your house might be noise (in which case they will automatically throttle the speed), or you are too far away from the CO (which limits the maximum speed of your connection)
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That sounds like a DSL speed which should not be dependent on other users in your area unlike cable. The internet is busier on nights and weekends so just slower in general depending on which sites you visit.