Ok heres the situation...
My downloading speeds start out pretty good around 250kB/s, But then they dramatically fall down to 30kB/s.
The files being downloading then remains around the 30kB/s. I have done many tests, on sites and so forth, and its says that my download rate is 33kB/s but i dont think that is right with DSL. Im not too sure but friends have told me that there DSL downloading speeds are higher and one of my friends got the same provider. I've ran many tests... Removed all spyware/adware, Removed all viruses, but still no luck . So im asking for some comments and answers, Do i have the right downloading speed if so please inform me. Is there something wrong with my bandwidth maybe? Any suggestions please reply asap. Thanks
                                                                                           -Sovereign-

  Welcome to the site hope you like it. It sounds like to me what you are describing is the initial speed of download due to the cache while you are choosing where to save the file. Generally when  you go to download a file it will pop up the window asking you where to place the file, all this time the OS is downloading the file. So once you choose where to save the file it brings up the speed screen and it notices all of the file that has already been downloaded and says wow Im downloading fast and shows you a really good speed but then it levels out. I think this is what you are describing. As far the DSL it should be faster than that. Next time you come by post your speed test results in the Make It Faster Section and let Van help you out.

 Service: isdndslcablewirelesssatellite Speed (advertised) kbit/s:  Operating System: win95win98win98SEwinMEwinNTwin2kwinXPMacLinuxFBSDSolaris Connection: normalwinpoetwinXPpppoerouterpppoeraspppoeenternetpppoA   
 

 
1. Your Tweakable Settings:
Receive Window (RWIN):  32767
Window Scaling:  off
Path MTU Discovery:  ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling:  OFF
RFC1323 Time Stamping:  OFF
Selective Acks:  ON
MSS requested:  1460
TTL:
(less any hops behind firewall)
 132
TTL remaining:  119
 
 2. Test 146000 byte download
 Actual data bytes sent: 157680
Actual data packets: 108
Max packet sent (MTU): 1500
Max packet recd (MTU): 1500
Retransmitted data packets: 8
sacks you sent: 21
pushed data pkts: 9
data transmit time: 16.129 secs
our max idletime: 1089.0 ms
transfer rate: 7466 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 59 kbits/sec
This is not a speed test!
transfer efficiency: 92%
 
 
 3. ICMP (ping) check
 Minimum ping: 1032 ms
Maximum ping: 1174 ms
Ping stability:
1174 1157 1058 1115 1067 1059 1032 - - -
 
 
 

follow the steps, we cant help you if you dont provide more info

VanBuren