stingray Posted September 8, 2004 CID Share Posted September 8, 2004 running win 98se and have dl speed of only 974 with norton on and 1300 with norton off. whats slowing my connection speed have 80 % resources free and 383 ram. what gives. wheres the 5 times as fast stuff??? what can i do to get it moving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 8, 2004 CID Share Posted September 8, 2004 running win 98se and have dl speed of only 974 with norton on and 1300 with norton off. whats slowing my connection speed have 80 % resources free and 383 ram. what gives. wheres the 5 times as fast stuff??? what can i do to get it moving Why windows 98? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted September 8, 2004 CID Share Posted September 8, 2004 RR has been very weird lately, sometimes the speeds are fast as usual, but sometimes it just slows down incredibly, sometimes even disconnecting me for like an hour why cant texas have anything besides RR???? why?????? y not all those fast companies like cox or comcast or w/e it is that gives u like 6000kbs??? why?????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted September 8, 2004 CID Share Posted September 8, 2004 hey stingray What version of Norton do you have? I run NSW 2003 and NPF 2003, and dual boot with win xp/98 se. Win 98 work great for me 95% of advertised cap both up and down. How much RAM and what CPU do you have? VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingray Posted September 10, 2004 Author CID Share Posted September 10, 2004 i run w98 because i have a cad program that wants $1500 to upgrade to allow it to run on anything newer. cpu 466 383 ram resources are always over 80% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted September 10, 2004 CID Share Posted September 10, 2004 i run w98 because i have a cad program that wants $1500 to upgrade to allow it to run on anything newer. cpu 466 383 ram resources are always over 80% I could be wrong here, but my guess is the cpu. Norton antivirus and Firewall take alot of background cpu usage. They filter all traffic. To be 100% sure ask support here http://www.symantec.com/index.htm good luck VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted September 11, 2004 CID Share Posted September 11, 2004 good point.. you need a fairly quick system to run Symantec software.. you might want to try a different package (firewall/anti virus) this could take care of the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted September 11, 2004 CID Share Posted September 11, 2004 running win 98se and have dl speed of only 974 with norton on and 1300 with norton off. whats slowing my connection speed have 80 % resources free and 383 ram. what gives. wheres the 5 times as fast stuff??? what can i do to get it moving First let me welcome you to the site I hope you enjoy, lots of good info being shared...........I was running 98se some time back and testing on this site(ya know when everything was in black and white...lol)Norton did really slow down my connection,the way I found out is was not using anything and then installed Nortons and wow really killed my speed. I liked Norton but I changed to McAfee on the 98se and no problem with my speeds. ( I know there are a lot of NON McAfee fans) I have been running Win xp home for over a year and a half and there is a big difference instead of 98se..... so if you can find a copy of some other pgm I think your speed will increase, in my opinion its way to risky now not to run a anti virus pgm.....but I know people that still do......I guess it makes life more exciting....lol ..good luck:) Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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