How many bytes/second do you average when downloading? I am also using AirPort, I don't know if that slows it down...I am only averaging about 2,800-3,200. The max I have ever gotten was about 3,800 but that was only for a second or so and then it dropped back down.
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<strong>I average anywhere between 4400 to 4800 with and without Airport. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Wow...any tips how I can download faster? I wonder if it is just my area...I keep getting mailings from Verizon telling me DSL is now available at my house (about two per month) and every time I call they tell me they cannot give it to me b/c my phone lines suck or some such nonsense.
Oh well. Hopefully when I move to college this fall I can get DSL...
but how to check the connection/downloading rate?
thanks
<strong>sorry for the interruption here guys
but how to check the connection/downloading rate?
thanks</strong><hr></blockquote>
Just download anything, and in the download dialogue box, just look to where it says "bytes/sec" next to whatever you are downloading.
but other than that any utility program to check?
<strong>in the download manager? yeah got it
but other than that any utility program to check?</strong><hr></blockquote>Get <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/rominar/net.html" target="_blank">NetMonitor</a>. It's a great free app that displays the download/upload rate with lots of different options.
I've got mine in the menu bar. It looks like this for me:
that's what i wanted
when i put the NM on the menu bar,
grid lines appear in the entire menu bar,and all windows i open,
and the grid lines stay even when i quit NM,
anyway to fix it?
thanks
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Wow...any tips how I can download faster? fall /QB]<hr></blockquote>
Get Turbo Internet from <a href="http://www.macunicorn.com/" target="_blank">Mac Unicorn</a> you get an bust of about 1 or2x.
No, I can't afford the rates for cable or DSL...when the ISPs and cable companies "get the clue" that 99.9% of the consumers out there will only pay $19.95 a month for ANY access to the internet then I'll get it.
<strong>One thing about my 56KB experience...I sure as hell ain't anal enough to find out or "monitor" the speeds every godamn second.
No, I can't afford the rates for cable or DSL...when the ISPs and cable companies "get the clue" that 99.9% of the consumers out there will only pay $19.95 a month for ANY access to the internet then I'll get it. </strong><hr></blockquote>
well they seem to be making a healthy profit without you... except of course for @Home
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />