I have a Dell computer runing XP, My connection is satalite dialup broadband, ( oxymooron) I show a sat. dialup speed of 49.2 Kbps and a connection speed of 100Mpbs. my system is pentium 4 2.4 ghz and 512 meg of ram. When I tewst my connection it says my download speed is 42.0 Kbps and upload is 300 Kpbs. The PROBLEM is that in fact the best I can achieve is 6.2 Kbps download. Prior to SOMEONE else mucking with my system while I was gone several months I was gettin about 19.5 Kbps . What6 is WRONG it is driving me crazy since a news vidio can take the better part of a day to download. Who mucked with it ? ?

Have you contacted your ISP and had them do a feed test ? ?You could take a look around on this site and it's forums.

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

Just run the test and choose the appropriate options and it will diagnose your SETTINGS and make recommendations. PERSONALLY it helped make my connection a bit faster. It also supplies applications to make the necessary changes. But as always, you should still contact your internet provider.

EDIT: woops, it says no satellite connections. You could look here though: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite