My download speed is only 1.57 Mb/s acc. to speedtest and I don't have any internet lag - not even on VGC, which was always one of the more difficult sites for my connection on both, Safari and Firefox (switching to Chrome made visiting this site alot more comfortable for me).

So yeah, what twesterm said.

get rid of antivirus espescially norton

Try the HTML5 beta of Youtube using Safari/Chrome (not Firefox or IE). It removes the Flash overhead.

How do you get such fast speeds? Mines only 7.09 MB/S for download and 2.41 MB/S for upload.

use google chrome

firefox

not internet explorer

lol

try doing an extended ping to a site such as google or something while watching videos. If the videos stop/start/stutter alt-tab to the command window and check to see if your ping return time has gone up, should be around 10ms at the most.

To do said above use the windows key + r then in the command box type cmd then when the black window opens type ping -t www.google.ca

If your ping times are constant, I would bet it is the site you visiting

I agree with this post. No one needs protection!

ur upload speed???...upload is just as important as download speed if ur playing games...

This.