diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

[feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:

> I'm not a network packet-sniffing blood-hound, so I need some help of
> the mere-mortal variety :-)
>
> I'm generally dis-satisfied with the speed of my Comcast "High Speed"
> Internet connection.  It's touted on the tele as being some
> ambiguously huge amount faster than light travels in a vacuum.
>

Latency is a problem that springs to mind. Have you tried any of the 
suggestions here?

    http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/


Daniel Feenberg