| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 3:54:38 AM | I recently downgraded from Windows XP Pro to Home (for reasons I would rather avoid discussing) and I noticed that prior to the reinstall my computer would download files at between 100 to 150kb/s, however after I reinstalled Home my transfer rates are toping out at between 8 and 10kb/s. Does anyone happen to know what I seem to be doing wrong or does the Home edition have a transfer rate cap?
Thank you
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 4:16:04 AM | Your Pro copy, being a pirate version, didn't have the latest service-pack (SP2) installed?
SP2 made changes to the networking software that slows the maximum number of unique packets passable per second down in order to slow the spread of viruses. This doesn't affect most uses normally but does affect peer-to-peer downloading software
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 4:21:53 AM | | It had Sp2 installed just as my now legit copy of home does (Had the cd key that came with my computer but didn't have a copy of home). I wouldn't be all that worried about this if it were only affecting p2p programs, unfortunately I'm getting 8 to 10k on any downloads. On the good side it doesn't seem to affect playing games online. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2007 4:29:48 AM | | How do you connect to the internet? I want to know the hardware, make/model, how it's connected to your PC and how you configured it after reinstalling Windoze | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 4:51:36 AM | Clearwire, 1.5m wireless connection, 6ft CAT5E patch cable, Intel PRO/100 VE onboard network adaptor. As to configuration, I used the Add New Hardware wizard built into windows, in the "This Connection Uses the following Items" box I have Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks, QoS Packet Scheduler, and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) installed. Under properties for Client for Microsoft Networks on the RPC Service tab I have Windows Locator selected under the Name Service Provider selection. Under the Internet Protocol properties I have it set to obtain IP address and DNS Server Address automatically.
For the properties of the network adapter:
Property:Value
Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing: 1
Adaptive Technology: On
Adaptive Transmit Threshold: 200
Coalesce Buffers: 8
Enable PME: No Action
Row Control Settings: Generate and Respond
Link Speed and Duplex: 100Mbps/Full Duplex
Locally Administered Address: Not Present
Log Link State Event: Disabled
Offload TCP Segmentation: Enabled
PCI Bus Efficiency: Enabled
Qos Packet Tagging: Disabled
Receive Descriptors: 48
Retransmit Inter-Frame Spacing: 10
Transmit Descriptors: 16
Wake On Link Settings: Disabled
Wake on Settings: OS Controlled
Driver Version: 7.1.12.0 | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 2:05:10 PM | Two seconds on google produced these two links. Hopefully they help.
best link: read what the ex-employee wrote:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050325/1128226_F.shtml
2nd best link:
http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=15163
It has nothing to do with any software or pirated versions.
If you run a repair on your network connection and everything is fine then its the ip providers fault.
In canada we have a provider called rogers. It is like your company which provides broadband internet services.
For almost 6 months i have been arguing with my friends about the fact that this company throttles downloading. All the time they came up with nonsense excuses, but now if you call them, they will admit that they do throttle the downloading services so that everyone else internet speeds won't be affected.
In other words........they are too cheap to upgrade their broadband cable connections so we have to suffer for it.
The other big name competitor here is bell(co-partner for some services in your company i read), according to inside sources they also will be throttling download speeds.
This will of course affect any type of gaming since you have to download maps and information from game servers in order to play them.
Get used to this, it is the way of the future unless customers actually grow a set of balls and complain.
For more info on rogers customer complaints go here:
http://www.ihaterogers.ca/index.htm
Good luck and keep voicing your disapproval of your companies lousy service.
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 4:19:53 PM | | I have Rogers "high speed Extreme", don't think they throttle Extreme users, I'm always 700+ at most sites, newgroups etc. My friend that lives a block away though has Rogers "high speed" and he's rarely over 320 and I read Rogers "Lite" subscribers barely get over 50. Makes sense that Rogers would use throttling, how else would they sell the top of the line packages. As a Rogers Extreme subscriber the bandwidth cap is seriously increased or non existent too, can't quite remember what the sales dept said in regards to that. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2007 6:52:23 PM | Newsgroups? Thought rogers got rid of those?
If you pay for the news groups which service do you use?
Actually i use rogers lite and i get 90-150kbs.
Rogers actually caps ALL user accounts. From the lowest to the highest speeds.
As for why your speeds don't decrease, it will. Bell will also be throttling the speeds, though from what i hear they won't have a cap.
Pressure from the entertainment associations and better/faster game servers is placing too much strain on high speed internet connections.
Companies are looking for ways to decrease the traffic flow and also discourage downloading all together.
Personally i think that is crazy..........majority of the people i know either play games like wow or unreal tournament/halo online or download music/videos/books.
If they place restrictions on these things, what will the internet be used for?
Emails/myspace pages?
We really don't need high speed internet to surf the net or talk on msn/yahoo messengers.
In fact if you don't download or play games online, you don't need a high speed connection.
Save 20.00 and go to lite. Usually around 24.95.
Lite services are 1mb download(enough to download anything from youtube) and gives you a constant 90-100kbs per second download rate.
Since most videos on sites like youtube are small(ranging around 5mb-40mb) you generally download them in 5 minutes or less.
So in conclusion, if you are not going to use the high speed connection to the best of its ability, get the next lowest connection.
And don't forget to keep complaining, only through our disapproval of their lousy services will they actually change their limitations. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2007 7:53:26 PM | | I use GigaNews for my newsgroup server...Rogers customers were getting a deal when I signed up. I use my connection to play CoH and a few other online games often at night plus there are 3-4 other computers on my network at any given time playing an online game, downloading, surfing, MSN'ing etc so we chew up lots bandwidth per month here. We were on "High Speed" not too long ago and there was lots of lag while gaming online and newsgroup downloads were never better than 300 or so...the "High Speed Extreme" package fixed us up. | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 3/24/2007 11:54:41 PM | As to the make/model, I haven't the foggiest clue, I looked for any type of insignias on the modem itself, and the only thing on it was Clearwire in big green letters, as well as the part number. After a rather lengthy(2 hours or so) search on the part number I was unable to come up with anything other than that it 'might' be a motorola.
Fortunately after doing a small bit of experimentation I found that my problem was currupted NIC drivers. I grabbed one of the many NIC's I have floating around my room, threw it in my computer(almost litteraly), had windows search their update site for drivers, installed them, then went to download a file, my transfer rate went from 8 to 10kb/s to 75-100kb/s. Though I think I'm going to give a call to Clearwire and see why my 1.5meg connection has so low of a transfer rate.
Thank you for the help
TK | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 4/5/2007 10:15:44 AM | Please ignore what rsx11s says above (or on any subject) as its pretty obvious he makes it up on the spot
the only differences between XP Home and Pro are the presence of additional networking protocols, a Remote Desktop server and an Active Directory client in XP Pro which are not present in XP Home
All other files are identical and the two operating systems are 100% compatible. XP Pro takes about 2mb more RAM when running than Home with a default configuration and requires fractionally more drive space | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 11:27:40 PM |
/me, amused
lol
just another thing to check would be the bandwidth limiter that windows reserves for the downloading of updates, by default it reserves 20% of the total bandwidth | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 7/17/2009 3:06:02 PM | Can you be more specific as to what kind of file transfers are you doing? Is it ftp? p2p?
XP pro and home should be the same is net speed. Did you use the same drivers? Maybe reinstall them because it doesn't make any sense. Now if you're downloading torrents then maybe you're being throttled ?? maybe.. | |
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Posted: 7/22/2009 5:38:22 PM | I agree with dstefan, you probably are being throttled >.<
but it might also be worth finding out of your ISP have you on one of them crappy "Fair Usage Limits" if you have that would probably explain the slow speeds youve probably gone over your limit for the week/month and will have to cope with slow speeds till your limit is reset. | |
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Posted: 7/23/2009 7:47:01 AM | Woo Lots of confusion in these replies on downloading and transfer rates!!
What are you people trying to do???
Look its very easy to change these setting and rates if you are using windows .
I don't care what version these setting are all under SYSTEM TOOLS
which you find by using help& support .
You go to Help & support
Then SYSTEM Configuration Utilities
Then SYSTEM .INI
And then look and see if you see a folder marked (VCACHE)
If you do then open it and change your Minfile cache
Your Maxfile cache
and your chunksize
But you must have this vcache folder in your SYSTEM.INI folder or you will only run at the set slow basic windows settings.
You can download Optimizer xp which will do this for you automaticly or you can if you know how to ad to your folders this vcache folder and settings
No you will not find anything in windows help files to guide you and most people don't even no that it is vcache that runs and dictates your upload rates and download rates.
If needed just ask and I can explain the propper way to put windows in over drive and help you with transfer rates and download speeds.
Normal DSL should connect at 100 .0 mbps so transfer rates and download rates will if your vcache is set up propperly will run full speed
Which means a 8OO meg program will download in lest then 30 minutes .
But remember videos and Pictures are huge no matter how smal they are and they do take longer as they must be loaded into memory then get sent !
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 7/26/2009 6:12:32 PM | | You guys are all going to hate me. Comcast Docsis 3.0 top tier 50mbit connection. I cap out at about 6MB/s. I have no idea how you guys put up with 100-150k/s I'd go insane. I think the EVDO on my phone actually goes faster than that. | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 7/26/2009 6:49:56 PM | The XPSP2 update limited the amount of concurrent TCP connections to 20 which meant it limited the amount of unique packets passable.
This is fixable, it can all be reverse engineered, you just need to know how to do it, or where to get the fix from. | |
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| Issues with Downloading and Transfer Rates.
Posted: 7/27/2009 6:57:14 PM | | At work we got a 100Mbit backbone, which is usually gives 12MB/s, but it depends on the NIC your running with, Intel are usually pretty good, but the 100VE isnt to hot, the 1000 chips are sweet though, the best Ive got is an Adaptec card, it never fails to put 12meg through and runs on a 6 hour release so it can run 12 for 6 hours before it needs to come up for air. | |
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