Question for computer wizzies
 

Just got my cable broadband hooked. 3meg download. Now not sure if my comp or a thing with rapidshare but I can still only DL stuff from rapidshare at about 40kps.

If its a rapid share thing.. fine. If its my comp, any suggestions?

Brand new motorola cable modem.
Win XP
P4 2.4 g
1g DDR
200g Hard Drive
Im using a reletivaly old ethernet card however. Some generic thing I bought about 6 years ago.

Well we all know Rapidshare is sh**.Probably that's what wrong:D
Your computer doesn't really have anything to do with download speed.The old card as long as it has some good drivers shoudn't be a problem.
But those 3megs-is that "real" download speed (what you get,or should get at the actual download) or the internet traffic speed?If it's your traffic speed,you should be geting about...300 kb/s download speed about average.What about other downloads-do they work?

That 3 meg is the "UP TOO" advertised speed which may not be the actual speed.

If you're concerned about your bandwidth, go to http://www.dslreports.com/stest and test it, and compare it to what your ISP says it should be. If it's markedly (say 30-40%) lower, contact your ISP tech support; if not, it's Rapidshare, and nothing can be done, except maybe waiting for non-peak hours.

Thx mate, Ill give that a shot.:yep:

Yea you should try a bandwith test and see if the ISP isn't screwing you.That happened to me -i was supposed to have 512kb speed but I did a bandwith test and saw that I have 256 .I phoned them and 1 month later (NOW) they still haven't done anything...but I'm going next week to upgrade to 1.5 mb guaranteed speed .I'm gonna pay them a lot of money for that hope the bastards make it work.Too bad their building isn't on a ship -would've had a lot of pleasure after sinking them with the deck-gun so they could suffer and scream in terror while they sink :arrgh!:

I get speeds of 400 to 500kps from RapidShare and have had no trouble with them.

I get 0 speeds cos I cant get bugger all from them :rotfl:

A few sites to test at ... alll seem to vary soaverage it out ....

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimet...=uk&newlang=uk

http://www.2wire.com/?p=154&inc=bmresult&kbps=3072.3

http://reviews.cnet.com/Bandwidth_me....html?tag=more

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp

best time for testing any connection is early in morning before the big businesses open .... like before 6 am or there abouts .........

Interesting :up:
Averaged out just over 3.03 Mbs

:rotfl:

Well, I got my problem solved. Only took 2 calls to the ISP and 1 to microsoft. Seems after all the run around my dumbass cable company put me in for the 256k package instead of the 3meg one but were charging me for the 3 meg service. :nope:

Idiots!!!

Im fast now tho:|\\