I'm kinda new to all of this tweaking your speed and all, but when I tested my download speed, it came up horrible, even though I have a good upload speed. I shut off all programs using my connection at the time also, plus I did what it said on the two sticky topics for making your speed faster. I also tweaked my settings for 4000 using cablenut, but none of this actually changed my download speed, it made my upload speed just a little faster, like 1 kB/s... Seems like my download wont go higher than 75% average because I've tested this over and over using diff tweaks and everything. I have no spyware/ad ware/viruses, because I did what was posted on the sticky.. (which got rid of hundreds of files, thank you.  ) but this still perplexes me..

My download -
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 2657 Kbps about 2.7 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 324 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Fri May 20 02:08:49 CDT 2005
Bottom Line:: 47X faster than 56K 1MB download in 3.16 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 73.68 % of your hosts average (Comcast.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-WR4K2T5H1

My upload -
::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 374 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 46 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Fri May 20 02:09:27 CDT 2005
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 22.26 sec
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 9.04 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-JBE1TAKVX

Any suggestions?
Thanks...

Okay I did that and my test results are...
Log created by AutoCheck.bat on Fri 05/20/2005

Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=183ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 38ms, Maximum = 183ms, Average = 90ms
 
Ping Complete.
 
 

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms    12 ms     7 ms  10.228.156.1
  2     8 ms     8 ms     6 ms  68.87.177.117
  3     6 ms    11 ms    14 ms  68.87.174.33
  4    12 ms     8 ms    10 ms  68.87.174.29
  5     7 ms     9 ms    25 ms  68.87.174.25
  6    14 ms    10 ms     7 ms  68.87.174.21
  7    24 ms    23 ms    26 ms  12.118.239.169
  8    24 ms    27 ms    28 ms  tbr2-p012301.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.13]
  9    23 ms    25 ms    25 ms  tbr2-cl7.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.46]
 10   121 ms    42 ms    39 ms  tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
 11    39 ms    39 ms    47 ms  gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.196.97]
 12    49 ms    37 ms    45 ms  12.119.136.14
 13   167 ms    37 ms    40 ms  dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30]
 14    39 ms    38 ms    37 ms  dist-vlan41.dsr2-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83]
 15   156 ms    38 ms    38 ms  gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69]
 16    37 ms    36 ms    38 ms  85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]

Trace complete.

UH whut about... NEW SERVERS! - testmy.net now runs off two Dual XEON 2.8GHz servers.  Thank you all for your support of our sponsors and donations.  Enjoy the quicker, snappier, more efficient servers!

Says that in the newsbox...
Anyway, how do I test one of the mirrors? I'll retry using the autocheck for now...
Here are the results...
Log created by AutoCheck.bat on Fri 05/20/2005

Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=50
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 36ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 37ms
 
Ping Complete.
 
 

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  10.228.156.1
  2    18 ms     8 ms    10 ms  68.87.177.117
  3     7 ms     7 ms     9 ms  68.87.174.33
  4    10 ms    10 ms    12 ms  68.87.174.29
  5    13 ms     8 ms     7 ms  68.87.174.25
  6     8 ms    10 ms     8 ms  68.87.174.21
  7    22 ms    26 ms    47 ms  12.118.239.169
  8    43 ms    24 ms    24 ms  tbr2-p012301.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.13]
  9    24 ms    24 ms    27 ms  tbr2-cl7.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.46]
 10    45 ms    39 ms    39 ms  tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
 11    53 ms    41 ms    38 ms  gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.196.97]
 12    38 ms    40 ms    36 ms  12.119.136.14
 13    37 ms    40 ms    36 ms  dist-vlan31.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29]
 14    37 ms    38 ms    40 ms  dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
 15    38 ms    37 ms    47 ms  gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69]
 16    36 ms    42 ms    37 ms  85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]

Trace complete.
 

Omg... Psh. I'm slow...

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 4039 Kbps about 4 Mbps (tested with 20972 kB)
Download Speed is:: 493 kB/s
Tested From:: http://s121815182.onlinehome.us
Test Time:: 
Bottom Line:: 72X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.08 sec
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 11.98 % faster than the average for host (Comcast.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-7EKHYNMJC

Slow? that's 100% of your advertised speeds. Try testing on the main server a few more times at different times of the day, if you can. You'll probably get around 4Mb

So how does this look.
my sppeds have never gotten much above 3mb usually lower and i have done all the things to help it suggested.
I am curios about the line where it says it timed out.

Log created by AutoCheck.bat on Fri 05/20/2005

Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=73ms TTL=49
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=49
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=49
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 73ms, Maximum = 75ms, Average = 74ms
 
Ping Complete.
 
 

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    10 ms    11 ms    31 ms  12.244.20.65
  4     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  12.244.64.85
  5    13 ms    11 ms    14 ms  12.244.64.102
  6    14 ms    14 ms    17 ms  12.118.106.5
  7    13 ms    15 ms    15 ms  12.122.80.50
  8    53 ms    55 ms    74 ms  tbr2-cl1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.10.61]
  9    60 ms    62 ms    78 ms  tbr2-cl7.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.46]
 10    79 ms    78 ms    85 ms  tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
 11    69 ms    70 ms    68 ms  gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.196.97]
 12    68 ms    68 ms    69 ms  12.119.136.14
 13    67 ms    72 ms    70 ms  dist-vlan32.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.62]
 14    69 ms    79 ms    78 ms  dist-vlan41.dsr2-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83]
 15    70 ms    96 ms    77 ms  gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69]
 16    76 ms    76 ms    73 ms  67.18.179.85

Trace complete.