I want to thank you guys for making me aware of the testmy.net site. It prompted me to poke around at my home connection, which was allegedly 1.5M (Qwerst). After several technical calls, I found out a couple things.

1. Qwest sucks. Still.
2. My dsl provider is cool
3. I have to have dsl filters on all the phone outlets in my house, whether there is a phone connected to them or not. Go figure. Anyway, I fixed my connection and went from ~578 to 1.2. Yippee.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 1241 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 152 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Sat May 21 2005 16:20:46 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Bottom Line:: 22X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.74 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 95.43 % faster than the average for host (dslnorthwest.net)

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