Nor which Properties window you are thinking about. Every file stored in Windows has a Properties window.
Here's a short explanation of PPPoE;
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214430,00.html
If your internet speed is good, (at least faster than your previous dial-up but should be much faster), then I wouldn't worry to much about how it is working. I am no expert but I don't see what compression would do or how it works. When your computer is connected to the internet, for example when you are surfing web pages using a browser, the computer receives data from the internet at whatever speed and whatever rate is available. For anything to be compressed your computer would have to send out a request to the..... whatever, to compress the data before sending it down to the computer. Then your computer would have to decompress it. That would just delay the data being sent down to you.
Why not have a look at CNET's speed test to see how fast you are receiving and sending data?
http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
You don't have to enter an area code if you don't wish to.
Mark
Finally, I connected to high-speed internet yestterday. Its type is PPPOE (which I have no clue about). When I used to use the 56k dial-up, there was a Compression value (up to 60%) in the Properties dialog in Win XP. My friend has told me once that the higher the compression the faster the speed will be.
But in my current high-speed internet, the compression is 0% - it never changes. I use a SpeedTouch 330 USB modem.
So is it supposed to be like that for high-speed internet types? or should I call my ISP?
Thanks.

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