10 meg what download speed should i get

[popper]

Originally Posted by __spc__

Confusing - at the minute, I am running Linux Slack 10.2 on my laptop:
Fri, 12 May 2006 20:39:46 +0000

1st 512K took 504 ms = 1015.9 KB/sec, approx 8371 Kbps, 8.17 Mbps
2nd 512K took 437 ms = 1171.6 KB/sec, approx 9654 Kbps, 9.43 Mbps
3rd 512K took 436 ms = 1174.3 KB/sec, approx 9676 Kbps, 9.45 Mbps
4th 512K took 434 ms = 1179.7 KB/sec, approx 9721 Kbps, 9.49 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 9356 Kbps, 9.14 Mbps

Consistently I get this under Linux, but ca. 5 Mbps under WinXP.

Any ideas?

well , it would point to a software issue rather than a hardware one, i asume its the same laptop dual booting to linux or your using a liveCD.

what happens when you boot to safe mode with networking in XP ?.

does that show the same speed as linux then, 2 options, made another boot partition and install windows again there and get a dual boot option at boottime, check speed is as should be and migrate your apps one at a time to see which if any are killing the speed.

or, just reinstall windows and hope for the best, you could try killing off the apps one at a time in your current working setup to see if that clears it and if so ,find a work around that app, but the dual booting 2 windows installs is the better option to longer term happyness, you can then make drive images far easyer and take far less time re-installing next time.

theres something amiss with your current windows install, thats for sure.

[__spc__]

Thanks for that - I think you're right about the XP install; my laptop dual boots XP/Linux.

I have the modem connected to router1, which is connected wirelessly (using WDS) to router2 to extend the WiFi coverage in my house; my problem laptop connects to router1, the gateway.

I get ca. 7Mbps from an XP PC on the WLAN that connects to router2. Interesting...

I'm not sure at the minute that I can be bothered to reinstall XP to try and get 10Mbps...