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Retrovertigo · 04-06-2004, 22:25

It's hard to say. I can do the speed test and it can show up as being ok. but then i surf or download something and it slows down to about half the speed I should be getting.

I assume there's no hardware problem that could cause this? otherwise the speed test would show it as being slow as well yes?

is this a known problem at the moment by the way? Or is it just "one of those things" - as i say I have just built a new P.C and would hate to think there's anything wrong with my hardware. cheers

This is the readings from the speed test:

1st 128K took 1953 ms = 67113 Bytes/sec = approx 558 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1969 ms = 66568 Bytes/sec = approx 554 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1890 ms = 69350 Bytes/sec = approx 577 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 2079 ms = 63046 Bytes/sec = approx 525 kbits/sec

not quite as fast as I'm used to. But an improvement on what I've had all day.

This may be a silly question, but on my old system I had 2 hard drives in it. One that I used for all my downloads. So I'd download to one drive while the other drive had I.E on it etc. would me now downloading and surfing from a single hard drive affect my speed?

04-06-2004, 22:25	#19
Retrovertigo Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 481	Re: downstream dropping off It's hard to say. I can do the speed test and it can show up as being ok. but then i surf or download something and it slows down to about half the speed I should be getting. I assume there's no hardware problem that could cause this? otherwise the speed test would show it as being slow as well yes? is this a known problem at the moment by the way? Or is it just "one of those things" - as i say I have just built a new P.C and would hate to think there's anything wrong with my hardware. cheers This is the readings from the speed test: 1st 128K took 1953 ms = 67113 Bytes/sec = approx 558 kbits/sec 2nd 128K took 1969 ms = 66568 Bytes/sec = approx 554 kbits/sec 3rd 128K took 1890 ms = 69350 Bytes/sec = approx 577 kbits/sec 4th 128K took 2079 ms = 63046 Bytes/sec = approx 525 kbits/sec not quite as fast as I'm used to. But an improvement on what I've had all day. This may be a silly question, but on my old system I had 2 hard drives in it. One that I used for all my downloads. So I'd download to one drive while the other drive had I.E on it etc. would me now downloading and surfing from a single hard drive affect my speed?