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Have you tried one of the older DC clients? Maybe a conflict of some sort with another program you're running resident (in the tray)? Could try shutting down each of the programs in your system tray, testing the download after disabling each one.

Were there any errors in your event logs?

Could it be the QoS service is still limiting bandwidth? For disabling the QoS Packet Scheduler bandwidth limitation see this link: http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/windows_XP/6800.psc.html

Have you tried dropping the speed of your nic to 10mb half duplex? Edit: Look in your event logs (Application and System) to see if something is erroring out when you try to use DC.

Just doing some reading. Do you have DC set to passive mode? If not, you may want to try that or change it to active if it is already passive. Here;s the link for the info. I'm looking thru: http://www.neo-modus.com/?page=Help&categoryID=2#Q9

From what those look like, they are parts of your network interface (protocols. I'd be careful what I deleted with those. You may want to go into your network settings and disable the Packet Scheduler and/or QoS to see if that helps. Definately sounds like it's an issue with DC only. If you have a frend that has DC, see if he/she can download from your system and how fast it goes (if at all). Have you run spyware removers and an anti-virus check? I noticed you have shut off the services for AVG, which I assume is what you were using for Anti-virus. You can also get to a command prompt then type the command netstat. This will show what ports are open on your computer and/or the ip or name of the connected machine or device. (How many entries are listed?)

Haven't used Direct Connect before. Is your connection to the internet running about the same speed as it was prior to reformat? If your speeds are lousy with Internet/Non-DC software then I'd change the nic settings to 100 mb full duplex or 10mb, half duplex to begin with. May want to try and re-install the DC or obtain the newest version out there and see if that rectifies it if your Inet speeds are ok and just the DC is an issue. Please let us know.

Are you running XP and does it do it while gaming only?

Welcome to the forum If you could, please post what your operating system is, the error codes shwon on the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), and if you have added any new software or hardware just prior to the beginning of the problem.,

without doing anything illegal! Check this out: Service is 4/356 from adelphia: ::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4168 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 509 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (prem) Test Time:: Fri May 27 2005 14:43:18 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bottom Line:: 74X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.01 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 36.12 % faster than the average for host (adelphia.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-3NFM48THJ Heres adelphias test out of colorado (Closest to Texas) Doin' better off network than on! Your Download Results Your Results 4021.384 Kbps DSL 256 Kbps Dial-Up 52 Kbps Your Upload Results Your Results 360.24 Kbps DSL 256 Kbps Dial-Up 33 Kbps You ran this test on May 27, 2005 1:42 PM You averaged a download rate of 502.67 kilobytes per second You averaged an upload rate of 45.03 kilobytes per second Me so happy!

"Panties in a bunch", its "panties in a bunch"......not "wad"!

Did it work out ok, Shug?

:haha: :haha:

And if the surrogate boxed, how would you determine what a low blow would be?

Have to fly to Russia, I suppose. Just hope they don't lose your package on the flight over.

Yeah, that happens on occasion lol

Close... excerpted from this link: http://www.davoice.net/t3-high-speed-service.htm DSL WELLINGTON, KS - A T3 connection is a point-to-point dedicated line that provides 672 64-Kbps voice or data channels or in other words 28 T1 lines. A T3 is used to transmit digital signals at 44.736 megabits per second and has enough bandwidth to transmit full-motion real-time video, and very large databases over a busy network. A T3 line would be installed as a major networking channel for a large corporation or university with high volume network traffic.

Technically, it's not fake, just "enhanced" Kind of reminicent of the old theme forThe Six Million Dollar Man: "We can make him better than he was before, Stronger......"

Could it really be an offshoot from the Chernobyl incident. Only in Russia.......... at the moment, anyway...

This is specifically for forwarding a port for vpn'ing with PPTP, thus the only step I would question is step 4 (dealing with vpn). Might need to experiment with it a bit, but I think this is on the right track for what you're looking for...... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309524

Sorry about the double post, but if you are running xp then this might help with your question on firewalling. You should only need to firewall the host computer, according to microsoft. Hope this helps! Excerpted from the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/topology.mspx ************************* A host computer is a computer running Windows XP that is connected to both the Internet and the internal network. The host computer acts as a gateway, providing connectivity between Internet and internal network hosts, and a firewall, providing protection from Internet attacks for the host computer and internal network computers. Figure 7 shows an example of using a host computer when the internal network is using a single Ethernet LAN segment. Figure 7: Using a Host Computer Figure 7: Using a Host Computer See full-sized image. You can also use a host computer when the internal network is using phoneline, wireless, or a mixture of media. The host computer is running Windows XP with the following features:

If you could, please post your operating system and router model. Also, post what firewall product that you you are using.

Here is an answer to your second question about port forwarding with ICS. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q231162/

That's great that the video issue is resolved. Network/connectivity issues are a bit easier to work thru. How much do you know about her system hardware config? Assuming she's using a nic, it might be a bit easier to fix the internet issue. If you can, get the model of the nic (pray it isn't an NE2000, the scourge of the networking world, in my view). Have her note what driver her system is using for her nic on both the old and new video driver. Before she "rotates" her dirvers, have her look at the back of her machine where the internet connection goes in and see what, if any, leds are on and what each is doing. After going to the new driver and full reboot, have her look again at the leds and note what is happening with them.

How does she connect to the Internet? Have her check in Device Manager to be sure there are no conflicts with her hardware under the new driver. Could be the new driver is setting IRQ/DMA differently than the old or adds a piece/part of hardware unsupported by the old driver.