Internet Cable Speed

Internet speed test results are very low, or is this normal?

Just wanted to get someones take on this-- I ran a speed test at speedtest.net from my laptop which has an internal wireless card. Came back at 1.29 Mb/s dl .60 upload. I was thinking that this is pretty low so I plugged my laptop in directly to the router and it came back at 20.61 Mb/s dl and .96 upload. I have road runner cable, a newer modem from them, and my laptop normally sits about 3 feet from the router. Router is a linksys BEFW11S4. Also my laptop is a brand new Lenovo T500. Is it normal to have this big of a difference between the two or is something wrong? Lemme know what ya guys think.

Public Comments

1. call your internet provider and have them do a line test to be sure you are getting what you are paying for.
2. your ethernet hardware is most likely configured correctly for optimal speed and you wifi card is most likely setup for efficiency or no packet loss if you will try downloading the latest driver from the manufactures website
3. First delete the cookies refresh the settings & then chk if their is any virus in ur system. Then chk your speed test from http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/