On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 > Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My > latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can > do to to increase my download speed? I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD > until I can buy a new computer. Running 2.6.18 kernel and > Debian/Ubuntu.
Have you tried measuring your last-hop (or first-hop, depending on your perspective) link using bing? Using a service like dslreports.com means you'll be subject to any bottlenecks in the network, including at dslreports.com. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
