missmoondog Posted February 9, 2015 CID Share Posted February 9, 2015 why do I see such a difference in download speeds between IE11 and Firefox 35.0.1? i can usually get at least 55Mbps when using Firefox and almost always only get around 30Mbps, if lucky, when using IE on a 60Mbps connection. i have disabled my only addon, which is adblock in firefox and the easylist privacy tpl in ie. that makes no difference at all. thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted February 9, 2015 CID Share Posted February 9, 2015 Have you run TCP Optimizer? I had the same issue when I switched network providers and my IE speeds were horrible but my Chrome speeds were fairly good. Thanks, EBrown CA3LE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 9, 2015 CID Share Posted February 9, 2015 why do I see such a difference in download speeds between IE11 and Firefox 35.0.1? i can usually get at least 55Mbps when using Firefox and almost always only get around 30Mbps, if lucky, when using IE on a 60Mbps connection. i have disabled my only addon, which is adblock in firefox and the easylist privacy tpl in ie. that makes no difference at all. thank you As well as EBrowns suggestion, please refer to this thread, which suggests editing Firefox about:config for multi threading downloads CA3LE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 10, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2015 regarding both replies, yes, i have ran the optimizer and firefox is tweaked just like what is stated in that topic i was referred to. just ran a test and the results weren't to bad. will check more as time goes by. thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 24, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 24, 2015 regarding the registry edit posted above in the link. i had that tweak done on most computers here before that was ever posted but not on all machines. after seeing that post though, i've noticed my settings for that had changed and keep changing to hexidecimal 16. why isn't it sticking at 10 and decimal? Value name: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server Value data: 10 Base: Decimal Value Name: MaxConnectionsPerServer Value data: 10 Base: Decimal thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 24, 2015 CID Share Posted February 24, 2015 regarding the registry edit posted above in the link. i had that tweak done on most computers here before that was ever posted but not on all machines. after seeing that post though, i've noticed my settings for that had changed and keep changing to hexidecimal 16. why isn't it sticking at 10 and decimal? Value name: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server Value data: 10 Base: Decimal Value Name: MaxConnectionsPerServer Value data: 10 Base: Decimal thanks That has me wondering if updates are torching your custom settings. Now I'll be watching for myself. Though AFAIK they should never be changed outside of the owner settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 24, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 24, 2015 i agree they should never change. i had just done a double check on those settings just before i posted above and when i saw that it had changed to hexadecimal and 16, i changed it back to the above and it immediately reverted back to hexadecimal and 16. it was as if it didn't take for even a second. modified it a second time and it took. at least long enough for me to back out of registry. didn't check it again before i got off that computer. on a linux machine now, so can't check this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 24, 2015 CID Share Posted February 24, 2015 Interesting for sure. I'll run this out myself later today see what were dealing with here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 25, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 on a windows machine now and just checked the registry. this one now has a little "a" in the value data box and the hexadecimal box checked but the setting is at 10. see attachment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 25, 2015 CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 Something is editing your registry, obviously, but we need to find more out about this. Start running scans, of every kind , and I'll start looking for why this is happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 25, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 scans? as in malware scans? i know for a fact my computers are clean. just to appease you though, i'll run malwarebytes and spybot real quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted February 25, 2015 CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/282402?wa=wsignin1.0 Quick Google search found this, apparently the max value on that is 10. Thanks, EBrown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 25, 2015 CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/282402?wa=wsignin1.0 Quick Google search found this, apparently the max value on that is 10. Thanks, EBrown What did you find about the hex being replaced with an 'a' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted February 25, 2015 CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 What did you find about the hex being replaced with an 'a' ?The 'A' is 10. You either have Decimal 10 on those properties or Hexadecimal A on them, no more. Thanks, EBrown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 25, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 as far as the scans i just did, mbam, spybot and hitman pro all found nothing, as i knew they would. @ebrown: 10 is the number that i did enter originally. some how it changes to 16 and the hexadecimal box gets checked instead of the decimal. @mudmanc4: what he found out is that old versions of ie can only download 2 files at a time and newer versions can download 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 25, 2015 CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 scans? as in malware scans? i know for a fact my computers are clean. just to appease you though, i'll run malwarebytes and spybot real quick. As diligent as we are, the term fact along side knowing next to clean , does not exist. For one it's a mathematical impossibility, secondly with new information coming out all the time on webRTC exploits, the lenovo conundrum, then the findings of PrivDog, there are most definitely many, many more. edit: In fact I have never once come across a machine that I could not find something on, sometimes you have to look far and wide, but you'll find something , always. Not necessarily detrimental to system functionality, however for the better part, it is not about usability anymore , script kiddies grew up, and started stealing data, hijacking your sessions and spoofing regularly visited web pages, for starters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmoondog Posted February 25, 2015 Author CID Share Posted February 25, 2015 sure, i can find tracking cookies on any machine too, but that's besides the point. i just removed those registry settings and will let it, and my other windows machines, run like this for a while. those settings were already in there, as stated in post #5, as it was anyway, which was before i even started this topic and saw that other post. i'm not going to worry about this anymore until after having removed those registry settings on all machines and see what happens. thanks for all the help so far!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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