Calculating your real bandwidth speed.

As a rule of thumb:
Given a broadband line speed, dividing by 5 and taking off 25% is a reasonable estimate of the maximum likely data download speeds (in bytes of data).
My connection: Rate from ISP 10 mb/s = (10/5)-25% = 1.75 mb/s

TCP has an overhead in transmission that can be about 5-10%, but ATM overhead has a 15% overhead. So you can expect to lose up to 25% of your purchased speed at when counting application data transfer rate.
There are additional factors affecting the throughput results. There are applications running that usually take up a small amount of bandwidth to communicate with their servers, therefore only the remaining bandwidth is available for your downloads.

The Operating System TCP settings will also affect the results because it is usually not optimized. Visit http://www.dslreports.com for further information on optimizing your TCP settings.

Another recommended security add-on

AVG LinkScanner

Download (Direct)
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Free
Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
* Additional Requirements:
Firefox or Internet Explorer

Publisher's description of AVG LinkScanner
From AVG Technologies USA:

There are millions of poisoned web pages out there. Let AVG LinkScanner check them out first. AVG LinkScanner looks for threats on every link you click in real time, before you get there. If a link is dangerous, you'll be protected. And it runs alongside other security software.

SkyDrive… Microsoft’s “FREE” storage in the cloud!

25 GB of free storage on Windows Live

SkyDrive

Store and share your files and photos with almost anyone.

Wonder if Google will try to outshoot the competition again. Assuming the same leap they gave us in email storage, the “G Cloud” would have about 250GB.

Lost Generation

Turn up your volume.

My Family Tree (we may be related)

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