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Here is the link with 46 freewares to choose from:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Me using AVG anitvirus and Kerio firewall plus Prevx1 intrusion detector.

In this case try setting the Nic to 10 half duplex and test.

Yes Norton and Mcafee are preferred by top COMPANIES with server computers of high speed and capacities. But you and I with our humble desktops and laptops cannot spare the RAM or Mhz to accommodate these guzzling softwares.

We need sleek and fast solutions.

See if this adjustment to your Nic will work.

Windows 2000 or XP: to change to auto-sensing:

    * Open Control Panel.

    * Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections.

    * Identify the icon for your cable modem connection: usually Local Area Connection.

    * Right-click that icon and select Properties.

    * Under the ethernet adapter icon, click the button Configure.

          o Click the tab Advanced to bring it to the front:

                + In the Property box, the property name to be selected varies according to model of ethernet card. Examples are: Network Link Selection, Media Type, Connection Type, Duplex Mode, or any similarly-named property which can have Values looking like Auto-Negotiation, or 10BT, or 10BaseT.

                + In the Value box, select a value for auto sensing or something similar.

          o Click OK to exit the Adapter settings.

    * Click OK to exit the Connection properties.

Before you relocate your modem, the duplex setting between your Nic and modem matches. After relocation, nitro test raised the alarm of a mismatch. My guess is that the switches in your modem are being affected by electromagnetic interference.

This may also explain the wild swing in speeds.

Since your comp table is cluttered with many items, you may want to place your modem on the floor directly below your computer tower. Cables from the wall runs along the floor to your modem and then a cable from your modem up to your comp tower.

Later, you may be able to find a low support for your modem so that humidity will not affect it.

Read this link:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_SimplexFullDuplexandHalfDuplexOperation.htm

You are welcome. Do read the other posts in our forum. We can learn much from one another.

Good. Now. remember, it takes your signal 270 milli seconds to make a trip to USA and back and so your speed to USA will fall.

Your speed to singnet.com is only 12 milli seconds and back.

See the difference? So speed in Singapore will be faster than overseas.

Enjoy yourself.

Open ccs file. Click 'Save to Registry', exit and reboot.

Modem and router are the 2 boxes that connects the telephone signal line from the wall to your computer. Make sure they are not near each other and also not near any sound speakers and subwoofer.

Do not place your modem and router next to each other. Keep them a few feet apart.

Try this ccs file that will allow you to surf to USA faster.

Do your speedtest again at singnet.com

When you use the internet, do you look up websites in USA most of the time?

Do you surf to the US most of the time?

Download the Cablenut Adjuster program from www.cablenut.com and open this ccs file.

Click 'Save to Registry', exit and reboot your computer.

Then test your speed again at singnet.com

Now do a speedtest at

http://www.singnet.com.sg/technical/helptools/

and post your results.

Do a tracert to www.singnet.com.sg

Singtel is the owner of Singnet. Do they have any site to let you test your speeds?

To do a tracert:

click 'Start' and 'Run' and in the pop up box, type "cmd" and click 'ok'.

A DOS black screen will appear. After the C: type tracert www.bandwidthplace.com and press 'enter' key.

Then post the results.

Does Singtel provide any speedtests?

Do a tracert to www.bandwidthplace.com and post.

Where do you do your speedtests that show your speeds to be slow?

Why do you think you are slow? Your test values shows you have already tweaked your comp.

Where do you do your speedtests?

Is it raining in Singapore?

Do this test and post the results:

https://www.speedguide.net/analyzer.php

This was your nitro test results earlier:

"Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.

Link set to Full Duplex mode

No network congestion discovered.

Good network cable(s) found

Normal duplex operation found"

This is the Alarm nitro test gave after you relocated your modem:

Alarm: Duplex mismatch condition exists: Host set to Full and Switch set to Half duplex

See if you still get this alarm if you raise your modem one foot above your comp?

Yes...there is something special when you turned 19! This will be your final year as a 'teen' so "ENJOY YOURSELF".

Once your age come to the '2' and then the '3' and ....here comes mid-life crisis...LOL...

It is around 88F here (Bangkok, Thailand) and a big "Hi" to all. I am surfing by the pool.

Results of nitro test on your laptop:

"There were 23 packets retransmitted, 36 duplicate acks received, and 47 SACK blocks received

The connection stalled 2 times due to packet loss

The connection was idle 0.74 seconds (7.39%) of the time

This connection is network limited 99.97% of the time.

Excessive packet loss is impacting your performance, check the auto-negotiate function on your local PC and network switch

The NDT server has a 8192.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 473.00 Mbps

Your PC/Workstation has a 625.0 KByte buffer which limits the throughput to 36.08 Mbps

The network based flow control limits the throughput to 1.07 Mbps"

Your RWIN is set way too high. Try this ccs file with cablenut and see if you get an improvement: