slow internet and p2p after install of xp

[canadajoe]

I just did a fresh install of xp and have installed updates and not much else. My problem is my browser and p2p apps are painfully slow, almost like I have dial-up. I have high speed and when downloadinf from Microsoft or other sites I get speeds like 700k\sec and speed tests show I have good bandwidth. I have tried updating to IE7 and using FireFoz and still have the same problem. My p2p is only 2-5 k/sec. I have a rule in Windows firewall for the p2p and have disabled my Windows firewall and antivirus and they are not the problem. I have no software firewall besides Windows and I have no hardware router. I don't know what else to do to troubleshoot this, it takes about 30 sec to load a web page so it's tough looking on the net for tips. Any ideas what it could be?

 

[canadajoe]

Swapped out the memory and still no luck. As far as the MTU settings go, I ran the TCP Optimiser and selected Optimal settings so should that have taken care of that setting?

 

[linney]

I am not sure about MTU settings for your setup and can't advise on those, it is just something that I see through out this forum as having an effect on downloading speeds.

You could try disabling any unused (not uninstalling) Network Adapter to see if that helps?

I would have liked to have known if Task Manager told you anything, or if running in Safe Mode with Networking improved your download speed?

 

[canadajoe]

Task Manager showed the system idle at almost 100% when the web pages were choking so nothing there. I am going to try a PCI adapter from work and see if it makes a difference but before I do that I'll try the safe mode with networking and post back.

 

[canadajoe]

I'm getting ready to throw this out the window. Safe mode with networking gave no better results. I reinstalled XP with SP1, not SP2 with a PCI adapter. HAve the drivers installed and avast, internet pages still take forever to load but I got 600kb/sec downloading azureus and these results from the test sites. I'm stumped.
2711 kbps down (~2.71 Mbps, 331 KB/s) ?
59 kbps up (~0.06 Mbps, 7 KB/s) ?
Details:

1024 KB downloaded in 3.094 seconds
1024 KB uploaded in 143.312 seconds
Speed @ 209% of the average for hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca
51 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2006.11.14 21:09 EST
Tested from:

http://www.layeredtech.com

Test ID: HPHPGG4ES9I



:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4468 Kbps about 4.47 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 545 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 133 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 16 kB/s
Tested From::

http://testmy.net

(Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/11/14 - 7:14pm
D-Validation Link::

http://testmy.net/stats/id-YRW2ZFJC6

U-Validation Link::

http://testmy.net/stats/id-931AUOTRG

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) [!]

Downloaded azureus 600 kb/sec

 

[bcastner]

What does your connection bandwidth have to do with anything relating to how fast you can download from any given site?

It means nothing. As long as you are at least as fast as the remote site, everything then depends on the remote site and not you.

What if most of your Azureus participants are on dial-up? You could have tested download speeds from test servers of 1gb per second, and your download speeds will not change under Azeureus.




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[canadajoe]

I'm not using azureus right now, I don't even have it installed. When you go to the tek-tips home page does it take over a minute for the page to completely download?

 

[linney]

What hardware is between your machine and the Internet, such as modems or routers?

 

[canadajoe]

I have the high speed modem that was provided by my isp that I have used successfully until now, no router.

 

[bcastner]

Start, Run, cmd

tracert

http://www.tek-tips.com

tracert

http://www.google.co.uk

(Use the [tt] TGML tags to make the stuff more readable when you post it back).



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[ASG0856]

2 pennies worth

I presume your high speed modem connects to a telephone line. Have you checked that that isn't damaged?
Have you had a line test?

 

[canadajoe]

One thing I never did was reset my modem following any of the installs. I unplugged it for a few minutes and then plugged it back in and now everything is running as it should. Pages are loading as fast as ever and my torrents are downloading avg 200k/sec. It doesn't make sense to me that it was the modem, to my thinking the download speed from msoft etc. shouldn't have been as fast as it should have been and I would have thought I wouldn't have any Internet access at all. Would it have been DNS related why the web and torrents weren't working as they should but the file download was the speed it should have been?
Thanks everyone for your help.

 

[assets]

I assume adsl modem is over the phone line are you using a filter on the line?

Never give up never give in.

There are no short cuts to anything worth doing

 

[CBasicAsslember]

canadajoe,

Do a little research on the DSL modem. I would suspect that it already has a NAT firewall in which case you don't need the software firewall running on your computer. I would make sure the NAT firewall is enabled as well.

 

[canadajoe]

I noticed last night that the speed of pages loading would slow down after a while and if I reset my modem things would return to normal. I have Avast, Windows Firewall and AVG antispyware running. This software NAT firewall would be a part of which one of those? There is no filter on the phone line.

 

[CBasicAsslember]

The NAT firewall would be part of the modem. If you have a NAT firewall there is no need for the Windows firewall. You should be able to access it with the modems IP address. What is the make and model of the modem?

Sounds like you have a bad modem. Contact your provider and get them to replace it.