OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?

[Baron Munchausen]

I think Ruatha has guessed the right answer. If you had started the download and made some progress, then cancelled or been disconnected for some reason, it would count the already existing portion of the download in the speed calculation when you resumed.

Nice to see you use Mozilla!

[Fyron]

Keep in mind that modem connections are rated at 28.8 or 56 kilobits, not kilobytes. A bit is 1/8 of a byte.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

I'm on dial up too and for the longest time I could never get more than 28.8 . Don't know where you are (no need to tell me) but since I've moved closer to a major street I now connect at 36k or 37.7k . I also agree with the theory that more people are off dial up now and that frees it up for those of us on steam powered computers and Beer Can / String connections!
I suggest you try to duplicate the conditions and see what happens.

[Atrocities]

I was sooooo tired when I made posted this Last night.

[Cipher7071]

Ack!! I still get 28.8. And that's on a good day. Funny, I'm only about a quarter mile from cable, but I can't get it here.

Good old twisted pair technology... nothing like it.

[Kamog]

I'm using dialup with a 33.6 modem and the fastest download rate I usually get is 4 K/sec or less.

[DeadZone]

On rare occations my 600k cable (which normally does 60-80kB/s sometimes does upto 300kB/s

So spikes are not just for dial ups

I really wish I could have that speed all of the time tho