How to fix extremely slow 10Mbps DSL XPSP2 Bell Sympatico Connection

[B]Tweak Test[B] Service:dsl Speed (advertised) kbit/s: 10 Mbps Operating System:winXP Connection:winXPpppo

Your Tweakable Settings: Receive Window (RWIN): 17280 Window Scaling: off Path MTU Discovery: ON RFC1323 Window Scaling: OFF RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF Selective Acks: ON MSS requested: 1440 TTL: (less any hops behind firewall)

133 TTL remaining: 118 TOS/TOS subfield: 0 TOS/Flags:

Test 1024001 byte download Actual data bytes sent: 1024001 Actual data packets: 713 Max packet sent (MTU): 1480 Max packet recd (MTU): 1480 Retransmitted data packets: 0 sacks you sent: 0 pushed data pkts: 114 data transmit time: 3.511 secs our max idletime: 230.0 ms transfer rate: 268398 bytes/sec transfer rate: 2147 kbits/sec This is not a speed test! transfer efficiency: 100%
ICMP (ping) check Minimum ping: 35.67 ms Maximum ping: 38.09 ms Ping stability:

36.84 38.09 36.90 36.44 36.16 37.48 35.67 36.91 36.70 37.18

Notes and recommendations: Check FAQ on MTU for XP (FAQ #2252) Choose RWIN between 95040 and 250560 (FAQ #586) download/use DRTCP .. (FAQ #578)

[B]SPEED TEST[B] 187.4 kilobits per second

Communications 187.4 kilobits per second Storage 22.9 kilobytes per second

1MB file download 44.8 seconds Subjective rating Mediocre

Date & time Wednesday, April 26, 2:35PM* Test type IDT4 Free Connection type ADSL Region Ontario Data size 1024KB IP address XXXXXXXXXXXX Provider

Comparison Your speed ADSL in Ontario (avg. 1.32 Mbits/sec) T-1 (max. 1.54 Mbits/sec)

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Looking at the statistics you provided, it looks to me like you are on a

1.5Mbps DSl line.

I don't think you have a 10Mbps DSL line. Your computer may be reporting the link to the DSL modem as 10Mbps but that is the speed of the Ethernet connection, not your DSL connection rate.

I just tested my ADSL connection (Verizon Online) I'm in Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. I used the New York Speakeasy test.

Download Speed: 1460 kbps (182.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 358 kbps (44.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

I have a 1.5Mbps/384Kbps dsl line. These are typical readings that I get and look comparable to yours.

Do you know what speed your DSL line is actually provisioned for?

Cheers!

John