Broadband unable to keep up with my system?

[Jacky]

Hi,
My ISP provides 6M Broadband service, I sometimes would monitor the LAN
performance. In conclusion to that, I found that only up to 9% of the
bandwidth was used (about max 300KB), are there any better ways/software to
boost my internet performance or it is as is. Thanks in advance

 

[R. McCarty]

What type of Broadband ( ADSL or Cable ), connection from Access
Point to PC ( USB or Ethernet ). Speed of the Network Interface Card
(10/100 or Gigabit )? There might be some TCP/IP parameters that
can be modified to adjust/"Improve" the throughput.

You may want to test your TCP/IP settings from this site:
http://www.speedguide.net/analyzer.php

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

While your ISP may provide 6 Mbps service, your LAN connection is
10/100/1000 Mbps, depending on your hardware. Additionally, while your ISP
may provide up to 6 Mbps, your actual performance will depend on what's
happening out in the "real world". While you have the 6 Mbps pipe to your
ISP, the performance of the servers you're actually accessing may not be
that high.

 

[Jacky]

Thanks... I have an 100Mbps LAN card. But sometimes high-through-put sites
also feel drained....
such as www.download.com, i can on maximum consume 30KB of their bandwidth.
Maybe they are restricting their servers through-put to each session. Don't
know about it... but as i know from other internet users, they say that the
download speed could rise up to 1M to 2M, On my father's computer, it was
clearly shown.... So maybe I just have a slow ISP connection....

Thanks

 

[R. McCarty]

There are numerous testing sites on the web. One that I have a good
bit of trust in it's results is:
http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/
*Specific downloads will vary from site to site, all you can do is test
to determine your overall throughput.

 

[Joe Grover]

300KB or 300Kb (note the capitilization)? 300KB would be about 50% of
6Mbit, as 300KB (kilobytes) per second is roughly 3Mbit (megabits) per
second.

 

[Jacky]

Hi,
I will look into that
Thanks
Jack

There are numerous testing sites on the web. One that I have a good
bit of trust in it's results is:
http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/
*Specific downloads will vary from site to site, all you can do is test
to determine your overall throughput.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

Wow - I like that site at 5,730,840 bps
Only 500,000 bps to Pakistan

Point is to use the same testing site at same time of day

HTH-Larry

There are numerous testing sites on the web. One that I have a good
bit of trust in it's results is:
http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/
*Specific downloads will vary from site to site, all you can do is test
to determine your overall throughput.

Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.