downloading speed

[mike at rockynet.com (Mike Lewinski)]

chandrashakher pawar wrote:

> We are level one ISP. one of my customer is connected to fast ethernet.
> His link speed 100,000 kbps. while downloading any thing from net he
> downloading speed donot go above 200 kbps.
> While doing multiple download he get aroung 200 kbps in every window. But
> when he close all the windows no change in downloading speed is observed.

As others have mentioned, duplex mismatch is a good cause. If you have a 
client with java support, give the NDT a try as this is something it 
claims to detect:

http://ndt.anl.gov:7123/

There's a master site list available here so you may wish to find a 
closer test site:
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/ndt/ndt-server-list.html

Caveat: I think most of them are Internet2 only. I know the ANL and CERN 
sites are accessible to us but didn't try them all.

Mike