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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Feb 24th at 11:46pm 2007

Okay so my computer took a dive on me last week. And I've managed to put in a fresh install of windows and what not. Ive got it ready for IGF (It'll be there to showcase ES), but I have an internet issue. I'm only downloading at half the original speed that I normally do. Before the crash I could have downloaded at ~150k/s, now I'm lucky to be able to get ~60k/s. What the hell is going on? Could I have installed my motherboard's drivers incorrectly for the Ethernet? I have SBC yahoo DSL, and I'm hooked up behind a Linksys router (please no comments as to how much linksys sucks). Any suggestions on what to check?


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 25th at 12:44am 2007

I like linksys.

Are you certain of your downloads? I assume you broadband speedtested it?

I had trouble recently too. was my phoneline. someone had removed one of the filters in another room. Check that.

It could be drivers, I had incorrect ones once for a completely different IPX card. (ethernet I think their called now) The wrong drivers worked, but not very well. Make sure you are using the drivers for your card.

If I recall, linksys also has an internal bandwidth monitor. Maybe its set low. I also heard windows XP has a broadband wide setting. Perhaps its low.

I realize these are all shots in the dark, but if I toss enough out, maybe one will be correct.





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Posted by Rumple on Sun Feb 25th at 2:44am 2007

Try running Unblocka, I had the same issue as you (except I was getting around 100 instead of 160) and that fixed it.


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Posted by omegaslayer on Sun Feb 25th at 6:22am 2007

Sorry none of either of your suggestions have worked so far. This is especially annoying because I've gotten used to playing with a ping of ~20. Now its around 60 on my servers <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">.


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Posted by reaper47 on Sun Feb 25th at 10:29am 2007

My tip is always to keep it simple and look for the obvious things you forgot. Re-check your modem/router/ect drivers. Any settings of this sort.

I doubt that Windows XP has any option to speed down your internets below maximum (or near maximum) that would activate automatically after a fresh install. I'd check the drivers and hardware settings for the part that connects, even re-check it if you've done already.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 25th at 11:59am 2007

I know this may be to simple but, you haven't got auto update turned on, do you?

Perhaps your bandwidth is being used there. Also, I have heard that using a borrowed copy of windows will bork out now. You might be having problems there is this is true.





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