Update from earlier this morning. I moved my G4 MacMini running MorphOS2.4 to eliminate my Netgear switch from the chain of equipment I use to connect to my cable modem, so now it is just my Mororola SB5101 Surfboard cable modem connected to my Linksys WRT54GS wireless G router connected to my MacMini.

This is the exact same connection that my Dell PC uses that I listed the 10.88Mb/s download speed and 1.07Mb/s upload speed.

I could not use the same test site though, as it requires Flash, so I visited three other sites that have speed tests that work with OWB. Here are my results of 5 test runs at each of the 3 test sites with OWB on MorphOS2.4 and immediately then checked the same sites with my PC running Firefox on Vista Ultimate.

http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-speed-test/
MorphOS2.4/OWB results 622.2Kb/s, 538.3Kb/s, 521.2Kb/s, 626.6Kb/s, 570.5Kb/s
Vista/Firefox results 1074.5Kb/s, 967.5Kb/s, 962.4Kb/s

http://performance.toast.net (Shuttle + Text test using Yahoo server)
MorphOS2.4/OWB results 1188Kb/s, 2217Kb/s, 1921Kb/s, 1832Kb/s, 1918Kb/s
Vista/Firefox results 4314Kb/s, 4667Kb/s, 4628Kb/s

http://www.ispeedometer.com
MorphOS2.4/OWB results 1.99Mb/s, 2.23Mb/s, 1.66Mb/s, 1.44Mb/s, 2.02Mb/s
Vista/Firefox results 4.47Mb/s, 4.41Mb/s, 4.55Mb/s, 4.61Mb/s, 5.27Mb/s

My ISP is Charter Communications in Big Bear Lake, CA, USA Zip code 92314 and Area code 909

These results seem to be much better than I had experienced previously and are only approx. half the speed of the Windows PC using the same connection, so perhaps I should not complain any further. I can certainly live with the 2Mb/s numbers, but if it returns to 10Kb/s to 15Kb/s, then I will be looking for a solution again. I will do more testing tomorrow with the Netgear switch re-inserted between the Linksys router and the MacMini to see if it goes back to the really slow connection speed.

I hope more of you that are having slow connection problems will use the test sites I have listed above and conduct the same tests and then share your results, so the Development Team can see what is happening with your connection equipment.

Edit: All tests listed above were done while my Brother was using his computer to browse the Internet wirelessly from his room and my Son was playing the Online game "Guild Wars" (a fairly high bandwidth game) via a wired connection to the same Linksys router.


[ Edited by amigadave on 2009/11/21 21:16 ]

[ Edited by amigadave on 2009/12/14 19:01 ]