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In the case of DSL, you may be sharing with otherĬustomers that happen to land on the same networking equipment at theĪnd if all those other customers happen to all start using the May be sharing with your physical neighbors as soon as the connection In the case of cable internet connections, you Your ISP’s upstream connection to the internet with some or all of your Regardless of how you connect to your ISP, at some point you share There’s one last thing we do need to mention: the ability of your You’re better off spending a little time cleaning up the clutter on Software you’re using from reacting fast enough to network traffic.Īnd yes, that’s where a new machine might help – but it’s overkill. Time as you, or by other software on your machine impacting the Machines on your local network trying to use the internet as the same Getting the speeds you expect, it’s time to complain to your ISP.īut, in all honesty, most apparent speed issues are related to other (or no local network at all, by connecting directly) you’re still not If, at this point, with a clean machine, on a clean local network My former ISP diagnosing a problem they had me do this – every – single Worth doing once to rule out a router problem. If you useĪ router your ISP will of course tell you to remove that from theĮquation by connecting a single computer directly to your internetĬonnection (turn on your firewall first!). Nothing but the test, it’s time to move on to other things. Once you know there’s no network activity, and your machine is doing Machine can lead you to some safe choices. That there’s too much, only some research on what’s running on your You use, the hardware you have installed, and much more. There’s no easy answer, since it depends on the machine, the software The minimum set of processes needed to run Windows XP? Sadly Now this leads to a really common question: What’s Software the browser running the test is the only software running on Services and just generally try to ensure that aside from required Should make sure to exit all other programs, turn off any unnecessary To “keep up” with faster internet speeds. That can easily impact your computers ability The issue is frequently that there’s simply too much other “stuff” Next place to look before blaming the ISP is your computer.Īnd in your case it’s not your computer’s age we’ll care about. Network activity on your network and/or internet connection, then the Mbps for your 1.5 connection or less than 6.4-6.6 for your 7 mbpsĬonnection), and you’re positive that there’s absolutely no other If your download speed isn’t what you expect (say less than 1.3-1.4 You’re not getting the numbers you think you should.) List above are using FireFox 3, but it’s something to be aware of if This may have been fixed, as the numbers I (As an aside, I’ve also found that for some reason some versions ofįireFox reported incorrect results for upload tests, and InternetĮxplorer was more accurate. Issues, you’ll never actually get your fully rated speed.” “Remember that due to overhead and other small Use the ‘net (I had to turn off the streaming audio I was playing, forĮxample), and basically try and set things up so that the speed test Should turn off everything that uses your internet connection.ĭisconnect other computers, if you can, turn off services that might I have seven other computers that might have been doing small things onĪnd that brings us to the first point: for an accurate reading you 95% of rated speed is acceptable – particularly when For example, myĬonnection, which is 1.544 megabits up and down, tests out at 1.455ĭown and 1.450 up. Never actually get your fully rated speed. Remember that due to overhead and other small issues, you’ll Let’s look at what might really be happening. Slower computers to run on a faster 10 megabit Ethernet connection without Heck, 10 or 15 years ago it wasn’t uncommon for Your four year old computer should be able to keep up just fine withĪ 7 megabit connection. With all due respect to tech support – they’re wrong.