Bizarre speed issue

[slipd]

Hi guys,

My Dad has recently upgraded to an 8MB (previously on 2MB) connection but is unable to get above 2MB (if he's lucky) on his AMD Duron machine.

My Blackberry gets faster download speeds when connected to his wireless and his neighbour upstairs gets the full 7.5MB of his bandwidth when we let him connect… its weird. I'm starting to suspect its his actual machine and we have tried everything on it; wired/wireless adaptors, safe mode with no services running (I did suspect at one point that it might have been his Sygate firewall playing up, but I've uninstalled that now) but nothing seems to up his speed?

Anything else I could try?

Cheers,

SW.

 

[slipd]

Yeah, the sync/speed has never been an issue. It's just his machine... The mobo definitely has support for usb 2.0. It's a 1200 duron with 768MB of ram.

When wired, he's using an onboard broadcom chipset and I've just today installed a new pci wireless adaptor and its the same with both of them - seriously reduced speeds

 

[slipd]

Hmm. Open the task manager and go to the networking tab. What link speed is shown? And if you do an online speed test with the task manager open, does the network utilisation graph show a more-or-less flat line, or does it spike?

I'll check that out later - I'm heading round there in a bit!

I've also taken a copy of slax and a long network cable to test the wired connection on the master socket from a clean os

 

[slipd]

Right, I tried slax it and was fine?! I was getting the full 7.5MB

My conclusion; to re-install windows in the week. There's obviously soemthing wrong there...

 

[slipd]

I've re-installed windows xp on the machine and the issue remains...

So, speeds are fine with a guest os (slax) but with windows, there's an issue

Any ideas?