Evaluating Bandwidth

[Dennis Muhlestein]

We recently moved our office to American Fork.  We were set up with
AfConnect without a lot of input from anyone.  Does anyone know if
they do anything weird with bandwidth limiting?  Perhaps they are just
plain slow.

We supposedly get 6 megabit up/down but I don't download anything near
that rate at most sites.
If I do a speed test at speedtest.net, I do in fact get close to their
advertised rate from the Xmission mirror in salt lake.  If I then
proceed to mirrors.xmission.com and download an ISO For something, I
only get about 1 megabit.  Is xmission limiting bandwidth on the
mirror?

Anyhow, overall we are experiencing a lot of dropped connections for
downloads, dropped calls (voip phones) and our VPN gets terminated on
a frequent basis.   I have yet to successfully download any file over
100 megs.  I get cut off around 50-70 megs without exception so far.

Anyone have any thoughts or experience?

Thanks
Dennis