CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Hello everyone. This is my first post here, so I apologize for any "noobishness" that may come from me. Alright: so I got my computer back from repair a couple days ago, and I've noticed that my downloading and surfing speeds are horrendous! This is a fresh install of Vista, I might add. Before I sent my computer in for repair, my download speeds were much, MUCH faster. Also, I am unable to connect directly to the router as I am on wireless. I'm not sure what my advertised speeds are, but I'm running on RoadRunner Cable internet. Here are my results: :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 818 Kbps about 0.82 Mbps (tested with 1024 kB) Download Speed is:: 100 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 360 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 44 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2009/08/29 - 7:07pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-2ECJ7HYA3 U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-XY9TIA3LF User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.43 Safari/530.5 [!] Thanks for the help in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 So what did you take it in for to begin with ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 The power supply fried and took a bunch of components with it. I didn't feel like going through the hassle myself, as I was still under warranty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Well maybe they installed drivers for the card (s) that simply work, but arent really the optimal ones. So you can connect through the router for internet access, but you can't connect to the routers GUI, right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Right. The router was set up by my step-mom's company, and they failed to tell us the username and password. I would reset the router to factory settings, but I'm sure it would interfere with her work. As far as I know, the drivers for the Nic are the one's that I've always used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 I see, she has a VPN set up in there, so she can access the servers from home. Like you said, unless your familiar w/ how to tunnel a secured sever connection, and know her server settings and passwords, thats not such a good idea to reset You could connect to a wired port to see the settings, but you would still need to know the password. So what we have left is the slow speeds, have you tried the vista tcp registry setting we have here ? There prety good, and many people ahve seen significant increases in there speeds by using it, it's located here >>>>>>> http://www.testmy.net/t-18907.msg214387#msg214387 If you have any issues with the instructions, no problem , post up Make sure to restart the machine afterwards to make sure the settings are saved properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Unfortunately, I have already tried those and no dice. No matter what I seem to do, I can't get my d/l speeds up above 80-ish KB/s. It's driving me nuts! One thing I found odd though, is that my Steam client seems to work fine. I downloaded Spore and Empire: Total War last night at a steady 200-400 KB/s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Thats the thing with vista, I guess the tcp blah blah << i say that alot now , dunno, whatever, the TCP and other values that control rwin ect are dynamic, they supposedly adjust on the fly for the best settings :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Nevermind...in response to my previous post. It seems now even my Steam is crawling when downloading something. It's so slow in fact, it's physically incapable of showing a download speed. Wow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 I am just going to throw this out there, since you don't always know how safe the security was on the repair. But it's been a while since I have read a story on a repair depots adding of scumwares to customers computers. So I guess thats good, right? Free MalWareBytes. Download, install, update and run. http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10896905 But do your speeds stay in one speed range or do they differ by large amounts? I guess you have already tried to do a windows update to look for new wireless drivers? I know Windows Drivers are Taboo, but some are actually decent for temporary, as you can always Roll Back the driver. Or gone hunting for them online at the makers site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 I have indeed looked for new drivers. As far as Windows can tell, and myself, I have the most updated drivers. I run scans everyday, so I shouldn't be infected with anything...but I'll download that program and use it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted August 30, 2009 CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 I don't have a wireless card in this system right now, but I guess you can't lock the card down to a top speed, right? Like my router is locked down to 2Mbps tops for wireless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 I'm not sure if I can or not...and even if I could, I wouldn't know how lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGoodpaster Posted August 30, 2009 Author CID Share Posted August 30, 2009 Alright...I have a rather odd situation now lol. So, I remembered that I had another wireless card laying around my room and remembered that before I had the computer repaired, I had it installed. Now, oddly enough, I have both cards in my system, both being active...and my speeds have shot up to almost 600 KB/s! Knock on wood...but I have no idea how this is possible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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