Go here http://www.broadbandreports.com/ On the left side of the screen, click on Tests & Tools. Scroll down to the Tweak Test. Run it. It will look at your settings and recommend any changes. Then download Dr. TCP and make the changes.
My W98SE machine on cable would download at around 1.2 Mb/s. After I did the tweak I run at 4.66 Mb/s.
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I live in San Jose, Cali, and I have dsl with two computers connected. I have a Sony PCV-RS 420... with Win XP Pro, and is connected w/ built-in network adaptor. My problem is that I am only downloading files at 40kb/s, even when one computer is used. I know friends who have sbc dsl and they download like 150kb/s. I was wondering if there is something wrong w/ my connection or a technical problem... any help would be thankful. I think the problem is that it is where I live in that the connection is slow.

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