Your connection has serious problems if you have a 500ms ping Locutus. If you are on DSL, check your phone filters...
Just tried another test site:
Pinging www.google.com...Reply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 12ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 9ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240msReply from: 64.233.169.99 RTT: 10ms TTL: 240ms
Test Status: Done.
DNS
Location
Average
Ping1
Ping2Ping3
pcpitstop.com
Dallas, TX, USA
43
43
42
43
yahoo.com
(various)
88
88
87
89
google.com
(various)
516
20
2000
21
cnet.com
(various)
86
86
85
86
espn.com
(various)
69
69
69
69
blogger.com
(various)
21
20
20
22
And a couple more speed tests:
Last Result:
Download Speed:
3559 kbps (444.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed:
647 kbps (80.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Speed
2.4 megabits per second
Communications 2.4 megabits per second
Storage 295.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.5 seconds
Subjective rating
Great
File Size 1.4648 MB Time Elapsed 6.21 seconds Your bandwidth speed is * :
1.74 Mbps
It's as fickle as the Canadian voter!
Works good enough for me though. The ol' 400mhz P3 dinosaur.