i ran a test at http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest... the result is the download speed: 1439kb/s upload: 398kb/s latency: 34m download speed is 1439kb/s? whatever i download from whatever website. my DL speed goes no higher than 300kb/s, 306kb/s is the highest i have ever seen. whats wrong with that?

I doubt anything is "wrong". Many websites limit download speed (I believe Microsoft calls it bandwidth throttling.) Also, as the physical distance from the website to your location increases the download speed slows down. Try a test location at the opposite side of the country and you will see this decrease.

Depends what you mean by downloading from a Web Site. If you just mean loading a web page then the numbers are about right. The Speed Test uses a large file that takes some time to load so the time is measured over a minute or so. A web page is conderably smaller so if you load a 300 Kb web page in one second you are not going to have an effective speed greater then 300 kbs. And of course you are completley dependant on the speed of the web server sending you the data. Stuart

Even for downloading files from the web, 300 kbs isn't a bad rate. It's actually quite good. People often get confused with the term bandwidth. They tend to think it's a measure of speed like kmh or mph. It's not. Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of data that passes any point in the network in one second. The higher your bandwidth rate, the more data can be pumped through....not the faster your speed is. For the sake of analogy, compare a 2 lane highway (one lane going each direction) with an 8 lane (4 in each direction). Which can pass more vehicles through in a specified period of time. Obviously the 8 lane. And this is with both highways having the same speed limit right. Things that can affect download rates are how busy the network is, how busy your segment is, how busy the server you're connected to is. All in all, you're getting what you're paying for. I have a 3.5 Mbps ADSL connection and my average download rate on a big file is around 325 to 350 KBps...which is also a pretty good rate.