Byrnee

Hiya Everyone,

I recently, (2 weeks ago) bought a brand new
Acer
Aspire M3200
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core processor 2.20 GHz
Memory 3GB
System type Vista 32-bit os
NVidia GEForce 8400
Network Adapter:
Marvell Yukon 88E8071 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller


I am connected via an ethernet cable to a linksys router model WAG54GS - which 4 seperate computers use wirelessly, on XP at decent speeds (including my laptop). This has the latest firmware upgrade installed (today).

The problem is that on my Vista desktop machine I can't seem to get any decent speeds up - when for example I'm downloading podcasts on iTunes, it takes an age. Even browsing is quite a drawn out affair.

I have searched for any fixes and installed the latest Windows updates,

I have also used speedtest a lot and have tired a number of solutions found on the net to see if anything works.

Just so you know, my security settings at the moment:

I have Windows Defender & Firewall running.
I have AVG 8.0 running, everything is turned on.

Windows automatic updates are turned off as they weren't downloading, or didn't seem to be, they were that slow.

I have also used the cmd prompt and typed in the following:

>netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

& also

>netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

both responses were 'ok'.

What follows are the various speedtests I performed, none of which seem to be all that impressive - though I'm no expert! Isn't 1000ms too high, like, way too high?

I have tried enabling and disabling various aspects of Vista and other programs.

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1.

- I had at this point run cmd prompt and typed in
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

Also at this point, Windows Defender was off, but Windows Firewall and All AVG programs on. Unless says otherwise this is the case.

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2.

- after adding the next cmd prompt info:
netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

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3.

- after disabling remote differential compression - worse?

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4. above differential compression still disabled, now disabled games too:


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these results both seem worse so I'm re-enabling them both.

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5. with them back on: (should be the same as 2 really).



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6. Then I turned off avg 'Link Scanner':



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7. I then also turned off avg 'Resident Shield'



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8. AVG Link Scanner still off, AVG resident shield back on, now Windows Firewall off



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9. Windows Defender back on & Firewall back on + all AVG programs back on



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One final point, I couldn't even get online on my vista machine until earlier today, I had to disable AVG Resident Shield and I uninstalled ZoneAlarm, which didn't seem to be working properly anyway. This allowed me access online, since then Resident Shield has been reactivated and deactivated a few times, the connection to the internet works, so I assume the ZoneAlarm setting must have thrown a spanner in the works. Anyway, thats uninstalled now, as is the McAfee free trial.

Hope someone out there can help me, any more info needed please don't hesitate to ask, I'll report back if anything fixes it! Cheers

Byrnee