Hi first let me say I am really pissed off about something. It's like everybody I see online has access to amazing connections, with 1mb+ upstream speeds and in some cases 10mb+ (fiber), and insane download speeds (20-50mb) all for like $50 a month. I would KILL (literally) to get an upload speed of 1Mbps or more.

Hell these guys with 10mb uploads can basicly host a 32 player UT2004 onslaught server with no lag, and here I am with my little 768k line (which I dont even get 768k). It pisses me off so much 

Anyway this brings me to why I'm here. I have the 8000/768 Comcast cable. Here are my speed results:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 8854 Kbps about 8.85 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1081 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/08/12 - 2:15pm
Bottom Line:: 154X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.95 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 11.25 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 63.51 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-4MJG1L6IV
User Agent:: Opera/9.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Upload Connection is:: 603 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 74 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/08/12 - 1:44pm
Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 13.84 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 13.75488 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 42.55 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-P2DIUMSRT
User Agent:: Opera/9.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)


Now, I host a dedicated quake 3 server and as you might guess I am very constricted as to what I can do because of the crappy upload. Anyway I dont really have a problem with the download speed, but with the upload speed, when I used to have the 6000/384 Comcast service, I got an upload speed much closer to the advertised rate. I would always get 374, only 10Kbps off from 384. But with the 768k upload, it is much different. I usually get around 600-605, the highest I have ever seen is 614 but I have not seen it that high since. I am 168Kbps off from what they advertise this time, so I called them and they sent somebody out and they said my signal is perfect and there is nothing wrong.

Well now I am basicly stuck with this. And the other issue of ping. On the quake 3 server I run gameplay is smoother because of the new bandwidth, but people ping at usually around 85 and sometimes 48 and the highest I have seen is 120.

I would like to do EVERYTHING possible to minimize ping times and maximize upstream bandwidth. I don't care if it's even at the expense of some downstream bandwidth.

What should I do?

How would I test the UDP speed? I would like to, because right now I have the maxrate on my server set based on the speed of TCP, but if UDP is higher I could raise the maxrate and make the server better. I'll try cablenut but I cant do it right now because I'm going out for dinner now.

EDIT:
If those speeds in your signature are true then I am assuming you have FiOS and for that I hate you to becasue I can't have it. 

(I dont really hate you)

hehe yea my signature shows my speedrecord overseas, i live in Sweden and tested this against Verizon testserver in US.

my cap is 100Mbps down and 13 Mbps up 

The only UDP speedtest i know of is Tptest, it only using servers in Sweden, but give it a shot.

UDP speed is usually the same as your cap.

VanBuren

well, you cant go faster then the cap, if you hit 9.04 instead of 8.8, you might need to use a larger testfile to get a more accurate result.

assume your UDP speed is 768 Kbps upstream, the test i provided probl not gonna show that speed overseas.

VanBuren