[dba-Tech] Slow broadband

Recently I took advantage of Time Warner's offer to upgrade to their premier
broadband service.This is supposed to increase speed to between 6-8 Mbps
down and .5 up from 2-4 Mbps currently. My main machine, as measured using
several internet sites, stayed at exactly 1.73 Mbps. Upload increased from
.17 to .35. After complaining TW had me check my other machines (after
rebooting all machines and resetting the modem and router). Sure enough the
other machines increased markedly to 4.9 Mbps. The slow machine is a 6 year
old Dell optiplex running windows 2000 prof with Norton firewall and virus
protection. The other machines are cheap but newer HPs running Windows XP
prof. and Norton antivirus (no firewall). The router is a standard linksys.
I turned off the Norton firewall with no improvement. Does anyone know what
is going on here and how to fix it? TIA
Jim Hale

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