Artificial speed test results ?

I've got the Solo1000 (1Mb) package from Pipex. Speed tests at adslguide.com
shows 819Kbps (102.4KB/s) connection but my downloads are only coming down
at 16KB/s. I know P2P is throttled but this is just downloading from the
web.

Have Pipex enabled full speed on a port that the speedtest uses to
artificially create better test results ?

?uzzled wrote:
> I've got the Solo1000 (1Mb) package from Pipex. Speed tests at adslguide.com
> shows 819Kbps (102.4KB/s) connection but my downloads are only coming down
> at 16KB/s. I know P2P is throttled but this is just downloading from the
> web.
>
> Have Pipex enabled full speed on a port that the speedtest uses to
> artificially create better test results ?
>
>

As the speed test uses port 80 also I doubt it.
Is it ALL web sources that are at 16kB/s or all?
If the server you are downloading from is slow then there is nothing you
can do about it.
Try downloading from microsoft or sun servers, if they run full speed
then the server you are downloading from or the route to it is the issue.

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Mac

"?uzzled" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> I've got the Solo1000 (1Mb) package from Pipex. Speed tests at
> adslguide.com shows 819Kbps (102.4KB/s) connection but my downloads
> are only coming down at 16KB/s. I know P2P is throttled but this is
> just downloading from the web.
>
> Have Pipex enabled full speed on a port that the speedtest uses to
> artificially create better test results ?
>
>

You should get full speed as long as the origin is fast enough. I do. Pick
a well known to you site and try a download.

--
Stuart

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