Very Confuzed

[LIM3WIR3]

I am tring to make limewire faster (up and downloads) I have verizon online dsl and it says my speed is 100.0 mpbs. I am a noob to computers please help. I went to the sticky and I don't know anything about that stuff.. Please help

[stief]

Can you get a better speed test? I'm a bit confused by "100.0 mpbs"

Try http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=97 and you should get something like this:

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-20 18:17:14 EST:
2169 / 887
Your download speed : 2169 kbps or 271.1 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 887 kbps or 110.9 KB/sec.

[LIM3WIR3]

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-22 15:39:49 EST:
279 / 129
Your download speed : 279 kbps or 34.9 KB/sec.
That is 89.1% worse than avg. other reports from verizon.net

Your upload speed : 129 kbps or 16.1 KB/sec.
That is 80.4% worse than avg. other reports from verizon.net

[Lord of the Rings]

Either others who did the speed test were using a different verizon plan with higher speeds or there's an issue there. Do you know what your plan with verizon is. eg: I'm on a 256/64 kbps plan with my isp. I get speeds of 27 KB/s & 7 KB/s. ie: some loss due to overheads such as distance from phone company, loss due to hardware, etc. I'm on the lowest speed plan my isp offers. If I were richer then I'd go for the next higher up.

[LIM3WIR3]

No IDK

[stief]

Call Verizon's help desk and ask them about that speed. As LOTR pointed out, Verizon probably has various speed packages.

Better yet, run the test several times when all other internet apps (like LimeWire) are not running, to make sure it wasn't just an unlucky test.

Let us know what they say (and the other speeds you get), and we can test what kinds of speeds you get with LimeWire next.

[LIM3WIR3]

I ran like 3 tests and they all turned out close. (within a few kbps of each other) that test a few posts up is a test w/o limewire.