[Chi-townChief]

Yeah - I bitched to them. The guy ran all sorts of little checks for 25 minutes and then said I looked good from their end.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Let me tell you one thing: browsers don’t affect the data speed. If you can do a direct server download from, say Download.com at 1 mbps through Mozilla, you’ll get the same speed through IE7 as well.

[Tunehead54]

Tell the cable company you'd like them to drop by with a laptop that can demonstrate at your cable drop that you're getting your rated D/L speed at the test site of your choice - also suggest they bring a new in box cable modem just in case - you're out the time but it would've been faster than reformatting an re-installing all your software ...

I trust cnet: http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-speed-test/

or take your pick here: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1