tnx good suggestions i shall try On 9/29/07, Brice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, 29 September 2007 10:45 am, Timothy-Allen Albertson wrote: > > I have 131 RAM. O/S is W2000 SP1 > > You could use a bit more RAM to speed it up a bit; however, there are probably > some changes in the Windows registry that would make the biggest difference. > See http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks on what to change. Also, for a really > accurate picture when doing the download tests, use the Java test if you can > and try all the different servers that you can use. One other thing, > firewalls and antivirus programs can slow down your connection significantly. > You might want to consider disabling them just long enough to do the tests. > (I would not recommend disabling them in general, though.) > > Sometimes the closest server doesn't work quite right or is running slow or > some other factor affects the speed. Last night, the Dallas server was > giving me the fastest download speeds. Other times that I've tried, servers > in San Francisco or the Silicon Valley have given me the fastest download > speeds. The server in Los Angeles is the closest one to me and has never > given me a good download speed. > > Anyway, if you take a good look around the dslreports.com website, you'll get > a pretty good idea of what you need to do to improve your speed and tell if > you're getting the bandwidth that you're paying for. > > Brice > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss >
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