browser problems need help please

[drifter0000]

I have a cable connection and have made the latest tweaks from this site.
Cable speed: 3mb
OS: win 98se

My problem is that when I test my connection speed with IE6 I get a result of about 2950kbs

When I test with Opera 8.5 I get 400 to 800kbs

When I test with Foxfire 1.5 or the latest moszilla I get around 1100kbs.

I run all these tests in about 10minutes time, and have repeated these tests for about a month.

Also the Opera and Mozilla browsers load pages very slowly compared to IE6.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[mccoffee]

It could be that site was made for ms's version of java. I'm not really why would you get that many varried resaults.

[YARDofSTUF]

Also Opera and mozilla may need some tweaking, I dont know about opera, but for a quick fix of firefox try downloading the extension "fasterfox" and set the preset to "optimized"

[dazzaf]

http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/

run one on there it always tells me exactly 4080 Kbps 500 K bytes/sec

that is my exact line