Can I do this myself? If so, how? I'm tired of calling them.

Thanks for any help.

Here you go Catty
www.speedtest.net
Click on a Pyramid close to you and the results will be better. Can do it globally as well

When I checked my connection on these sites, I got a very wide range of speeds, with one scoring (twice) about one-tenth as much as the others. I did not give that link.

Can't quote, dorian, but the first link said 1083 kb/s. I don't know if that is fast or not.

Second, 1334. So I guess that's good for an average.

Third: too complicated!

Thank you.

That one said 1324, bedstor. Is that considered fast? I can't connect to the gnuella network at all.

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Originally posted by cattywampus0:
That one said 1324, bedstor. Is that considered fast? I can't connect to the gnuella network at all.

1324 kbits is 1.3 Mbs faster than mine and thats at 1152= 1.1 MB

The smaller of the 2 numbers is the download speed roughly equates to 40% of the number quoted so 288 Kbs is about 125 kbs Maximum(Thats on my 1.1 MB connection)
www.gnutella.com/ seems to have an outage
Drop by this Link and see how many Users are showing on the site Meter ...I read "0"
Just have to Monitor the situation then you can resume when that meter show some numbers OK?

PS There seems to be a Few outages today AOL UK Lost the BB link for a few Hours.Connected?

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Originally posted by cattywampus0:
That one said 1324, bedstor. Is that considered fast? I can't connect to the gnuella network at all.

Apparently you're connecting at about 1.3Mbps, which is acceptable if your provider advertises 1.5Mbps.

A firewall may be to blame for poor Gnutella performance, particularly if you have a home network router. In such a case, you would need to configure the router to route connections on port 6346 to your particular machine. I shall not detail this process, as it varies from model to model.

Manually refreshing your Gnutella client's host cache may also help to find a fresh node to connect to.

Many ISPs, particularly cable companies, throttle or block P2P connections (Bittorrent, Gnutella) to curb overall bandwidth usage. This is probably the case if email and web browsing are fast while P2P downloads crawl. ISPs using traffic shaping tools almost never allow bypasses, all you can do is write to your representatives in Washington to demand net neutrality.

Hope this was helpful!

6517 kb/s Download
459 kb/s Upload on speedtest

Thank you, cswchan.

There seem to be conflicting opinions here. I need to call Qwest, I guess.

By the meter there are two connected right now. I believe the outage part, as their forums are full of people complaining about poor connectivity.

Thanks bedstor, Jwooden - I learned something today.