Router/Speed problems.

[outlive]

I like to say first off that from what ive seen this is an amazing community, which is why im posting here :-). Now to my problems. It all started a few weeks ago when i discovered Newsgroups, and i started downloading with giganews getting 600kb a second. Now i had recently Upgraded to AT&T Elite which would give me 5mbs download speed. heres the Speed test

5120 KB downloaded in 8.819 seconds
1024 KB uploaded in 13.354 seconds
Speed @ 270% of the average for dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net
90 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2008.01.10 21:47 EST
Tested from: layeredtech.com
Test ID: 2P00YXD42X9O
Browser/OS: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
IP Address: 70.247.103.194
Latency: 57ms
Provider: dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net
Location: Dallas, TX, US

And the Analyzer Test

« SpeedGuide.net TCP Analyzer Results »
Tested on: 01.10.2008 23:22
IP address: 70.247.xxx.xxx

TCP options string: 020405ac0103030201010402
MSS: 1452
MTU: 1492
TCP Window: 65700 (NOT multiple of MSS)
RWIN Scaling: 2
Unscaled RWIN : 16425
Reccomended RWINs: 63888, 127776, 255552, 511104
BDP limit (200ms): 2628kbps (329KBytes/s)
BDP limit (500ms): 1051kbps (131KBytes/s)
MTU Discovery: ON
TTL: 115
Timestamps: OFF
SACKs: ON
IP ToS: 00000000 (0)


This is mainly about why im not getting the full 5mbs and only 600kbs. i went to AT&T and the explained that my connection was perfect and nothing was going wrong. Well thats good i think but im not sure if i should believe them?
i talked to giganews and they suggested SSL because they said my ISP might be lowering the ports 119 and a couple of others. i even tried diffrent ports and nothing over 600? im pretty confused

thanks in advance for any help :-)

[outlive]

also i know you guys might get this question alot but i thought you could solve it? :-) this is my tracer information as well.

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms 1 ms home [192.168.1.254]
2 15 ms 15 ms 13 ms bras14-l0.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.182.10]

3 10 ms 9 ms 11 ms dist2-vlan120.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.162.
67]
4 12 ms 11 ms 13 ms 151.164.93.190
5 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms 151.164.95.186
6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms asn10310-10-yahoo.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.
250.10]
7 13 ms 11 ms 13 ms ge-1-1-0-p111.msr2.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.11
1]
8 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms te-8-1.bas-c2.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.193.7]
9 11 ms 14 ms 12 ms f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]

[trogers]

What kind of router and modem are you using?

Ping times at the modem in hop 2 are higher than those at the ISP's switch in hop 3.

It could be that your signal devices suffer from electrical interference or that your modem needs an updated firmware to be compatible to Vista?

[outlive]

im using a 2wire modem/router, i have a feeling the firmware is up to date but if it isnt i could just get the download from the website? i dont know what the interference could be im using a ethernet cord to run into the modem.but could something around the modem be messing with it? i have a corded phone in the same room and a tv? i also read something about a surge protector messing with speeds? ill try that out sometime tomorrow. also the main computer the router/modem runs off of is in another room.

[trogers]

Your AT&T Elite account is giving you 5000 kbps (kilobits per second).

You said you can download at only 600kb a second. File transfer speed shown at the browser is measured differently from broadband speed. It is measured in kilobytes per second (KB/s).

1 KB/s = 8 kbps
600 KB/s = 4800 kbps.