I have Qwest phone, digital cable and now their high speed.
I have the 1.5 Mbps (I think). I am confused with all the KB/Sec., kbps, etc.

Here is what I am downloading at.
Its a large file:
280 MB (294,285,337 bytes)
that took about 33 minutes.
Im just trying to figure out if I am getting the speed I am supposed to.

Doesn;t look too bad. You can go to Broadbandreports (http://www.dslreports.com/stest) and test your speed. There are other places to do the same thing. Here is mine on a CableOne '3 Mbps' connection.

So I guess its where it should be.

Looks my home connection has a pretty quick upload.

Here is what's wierd. My work connection seems really inconsistant.
You can see there was only a minute or two between the tests.
Why such a range?
Connection is the Sprint Broadband (diamond shaped dish on roof).

One thing to remember about downloading large files, it is not always your link that is limiting the speed. Many times the speed the server your pulling the files from wirtll be your biggest slowdown factor. You may have 1.5 MBps, but if it can only output it at say 600KBps, then that is all the faster you'll receive that file. But from what you showed, your's looks about right.

Edit...Your work connection isprobably set up witha prioritized time share of the total bandwidth between the users, so depending on how many are on at that time, and if they have higher priorities than you, you'll see very erratic speeds.

How would they prioritize it?
We have 5 computers hooked up to a hub, which hooks to the modem.
The cable from the modem goes straight up to the dish.
We have a lot of problems with the Sprint Broadband.
I would NOT recommend it. Do hubs automatically prioritize?
Would Sprint themselves prioritize the IP addresses?
Or is this something that is usually done by an office IT guy?
Thanks

Never mind then. I thought you worked somewhere else like at a big corporate. You can get hubs/routers to prioritize, but your seetup being that small is probably not it. If what you have is a true old style hub, you probably have been assigned IP's for each machine by sprint. If it is a router and not a hub, you probably are sharing one IP from the router to sprint. In either case if all five of you are on at once and doing downloads, your speeds will vary depending on what each machine's demand is. It will be VERY eratic if that is actually a hub instead of a router.

yes it is a hub, with each computer assigned to it's own IP address.

2006-02-10 18:21:57 EST: 3227 / 129
Your download speed : 3227 kbps or 403.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 129 kbps or 16.1 KB/sec.