Hi Guys,
My service is so slow. Not sure what i should be doing to tweak my pc. The ISP i use is a fixed wireless service called Turboweb in the UK, they publish rates of 2Mb download and 256k upload. They get their service via Aramiska sattalite. Anyway here are my results of the test using Win XP pro:-

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 321 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Download Speed is:: 39 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 6 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 26.26 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=TI2O9MIV6


::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is: 212 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Upload Speed is: 26 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line: 4 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 39.38 second(s)
Validation Link :: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=LBU5PT6IO



Please help its driving me up the wall.
Thanks
Martyn

hi, here are the results:-
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Martyn>tracert testmy.net

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  192.168.0.1
  3     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  172.31.254.253
  4   731 ms   589 ms   666 ms  172.16.128.3
  5   954 ms   876 ms   594 ms  172.16.64.29
  6  1107 ms  1563 ms   600 ms  172.16.100.1
  7   535 ms     *      725 ms  172.16.101.252
  8  2333 ms   636 ms   782 ms  213.181.59.142
  9   599 ms   659 ms   970 ms  cbu-pecams22-pcams11-ge10.car.belbone.be [213.18
1.59.38]
 10  1077 ms   558 ms   842 ms  mpr2.ams1.if-6-3.above.net [82.98.253.213]
 11   701 ms   667 ms   951 ms  pos2-0.cr2.ams2.nl.above.net [208.184.231.254]
 12   550 ms   661 ms   683 ms  so-1-1-0.cr2.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.29.73]
 13   658 ms   557 ms   612 ms  so-0-0-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [208.184.231.145]

 14   718 ms   730 ms   655 ms  so-7-0-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186]
 15   733 ms   953 ms   742 ms  so-0-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.122]
 16  1070 ms   996 ms   776 ms  so-2-3-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.13]
 17   659 ms   655 ms   806 ms  64.124.79.77.theplanet.com [64.124.79.77]
 18   812 ms   709 ms   708 ms  dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.30]
 19   871 ms   863 ms   966 ms  dist-vlan22.dsr1-2.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.76]
 20   799 ms   868 ms   660 ms  dsr2-1-v1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [12.96.160.7]
 21   688 ms   880 ms   884 ms  gig1-0-2.tp-car9-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.
116.86]
 22   669 ms   886 ms  1275 ms  6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6]

Trace complete.

thanks
Martyn

Is it only me, or are his pings extremely high? DIalup gets 400, he gets alot more. Maybe thats the problem?

  No its not you those are terrible, Im not sure what "normal" times are  but these are bad   waaaaaaaaaaaaay badd
Microwave

Hi Guys,
thanks for the advice, I know how slow it is i have to live with it especially wheni am paying the equivilent of $60pm for this service. I have spoken to a couple of other people on the same service today and it seems they suffer the same problems. Some days i get no service at all!!! i am beginning to wonder why i changed from dial-up. I think some serious sorting out needs to be done at my isp end as they are not offering anything near what they promise. The thing is when i first got this i was getting bang on 2mb, so they have managed to change something!!! I will keep you all posted as to what they say and see if i can sort this out.
cheers
Martyn

i dont think i can help ya on that one

ask around at www.dslreports.com in their sattelite forum

good luck

VanBuren