deaconblues
Roads Scholar
Geez. Wish I'd seen this sooner, Hotdog, I might have been able to head some of that off at the pass.
OK. A little troubleshooting here.
1) Boot up the system, and power the modem, but don't run anything that uses the Internet. No file share utilities, no FTP upload, nada. Sign on to the Internet and go directly to DSLreports and run your test.
How's the speed?
Do it again while running your normal load of internet-aware programs.
Also, try the test with the Yahoo! DSL software SHUT DOWN. There's a program on your drive called Enternet 300 (from Efficient Networks). Inside that program's Profiles menu is a DSL connection, no bells and whistles. Connect with that, use Internet Explorer or Netscape to get to DSLreports, and run your test again.
Also, if you want to find out how your system is performing "Windows key + Pause|Break" will bring up your system Proeprties. Click on Performance to see how much of the system resources are available at any given time. If they creep too low (below 75%) your DSL performance will take a hit (and it gets much worse as that number goes down futher).
If the speed changes drastically when you're running something from when you're not... then you have a program monopolizing your bandwidth somehow. Next trick is to figure out which one it is.
Let me ask you this. I note that you've got a diff. MP3 in your sig from time to time. Do you use FTP to upload stuff to a server? If so, keep in mind that there are NO QoS rules on the upload channel for DSL, so you can (and will) max out the upload channel on one file (!!). Because the upload channel is also how your other programs acknowledge download packets... performance will degrade considerably as every unacknowledged packet gets retransmitted (while all those ACKs are waiting in queue along with your file upload!)
Keep in mind that the A in ADSL stands for Aysymmetrical, which means the upload pipe is considerably smaller than the download pipe. If you use your system as a client (downloads only, no servers running and very few massive uploads) then the DSL should perform to expectations. If you run a server or upload a lot of files or many large files, constantly, it will degrade your DSL to the point of null usefulness, and you'd probably be better off with a different product.
If this doesn't touch on the nature of your problem, send me a PM for my work number and we'll see what we can do to get it fixed.
OK. A little troubleshooting here.
1) Boot up the system, and power the modem, but don't run anything that uses the Internet. No file share utilities, no FTP upload, nada. Sign on to the Internet and go directly to DSLreports and run your test.
How's the speed?
Do it again while running your normal load of internet-aware programs.
Also, try the test with the Yahoo! DSL software SHUT DOWN. There's a program on your drive called Enternet 300 (from Efficient Networks). Inside that program's Profiles menu is a DSL connection, no bells and whistles. Connect with that, use Internet Explorer or Netscape to get to DSLreports, and run your test again.
Also, if you want to find out how your system is performing "Windows key + Pause|Break" will bring up your system Proeprties. Click on Performance to see how much of the system resources are available at any given time. If they creep too low (below 75%) your DSL performance will take a hit (and it gets much worse as that number goes down futher).
If the speed changes drastically when you're running something from when you're not... then you have a program monopolizing your bandwidth somehow. Next trick is to figure out which one it is.
Let me ask you this. I note that you've got a diff. MP3 in your sig from time to time. Do you use FTP to upload stuff to a server? If so, keep in mind that there are NO QoS rules on the upload channel for DSL, so you can (and will) max out the upload channel on one file (!!). Because the upload channel is also how your other programs acknowledge download packets... performance will degrade considerably as every unacknowledged packet gets retransmitted (while all those ACKs are waiting in queue along with your file upload!)
Keep in mind that the A in ADSL stands for Aysymmetrical, which means the upload pipe is considerably smaller than the download pipe. If you use your system as a client (downloads only, no servers running and very few massive uploads) then the DSL should perform to expectations. If you run a server or upload a lot of files or many large files, constantly, it will degrade your DSL to the point of null usefulness, and you'd probably be better off with a different product.
If this doesn't touch on the nature of your problem, send me a PM for my work number and we'll see what we can do to get it fixed.
but over the last 4 years I have had it, it has been great.
, bastard!!! I respliced and was up and running within an hour. 
... But the result page is funny 
