Downloading problems!!

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Lionking

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Hi there
Firstly, I hope I'm in the rihgt section, if not, sorrry...
Here is my problem....,
I'm running wireless in my town from a local supplier. I have XP SP2 on AMD 3.6. Okay, now I have joined these people for 1 1/2 months now, and download at speed of 96kbps (123 if lucky). So, everything okay so far, untill the shop was taken over by new owners. I was offline for two days, and then everything was okay again. Until Friday!!! I had no connection, and on Saturday they came out to fix my problem of no connection.....Problem solved and they left. I wanna download, and noticed that I download only at 12 and 15kbps. My other pc (kids plays on it), is connect through the network, and I was playing around today (15th), on there machine, and noticed that the browsing is faster, and decided to download anyfile. Guess what, I downloaded at 98 and 123kbps. I checked my machine again, downloaded the same file......14kbps. Can someone please give me advice. I ran NOD32 today, no virusses!!! What can I check that is different on these two machines of mine.
Sorry for all the typing here. Only way to explain my problem.
 
Hi ;)

Did the people who fixed your connection work on the pc that has the problem?
 
Okay, so they screwed it up it seems.

I guess you are using Windows Xp, so click start>click run>type in: services.msc
press enter.

Look for anything that shows up as bandwidth limiter, or netlimiter. If you find something, stop the service on the left hand pane, test a download and see if it works or not.

You could also run this program:
http://www.windowsstartup.com/isw2.exe

Run it on the computer with the problem and look at the startup entries, you should know more or less which is the offending application ;)

I hope someone else responds too :p
 
teraside said:
Okay, so they screwed it up it seems.

I guess you are using Windows Xp, so click start>click run>type in: services.msc
press enter.

Look for anything that shows up as bandwidth limiter, or netlimiter. If you find something, stop the service on the left hand pane, test a download and see if it works or not.

You could also run this program:
http://www.windowsstartup.com/isw2.exe

Run it on the computer with the problem and look at the startup entries, you should know more or less which is the offending application ;)

I hope someone else responds too :p
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Hi again.
Tried it, both options, there is nothing suspicious in the startup??
I then tried downloading from NVIDIA (benchmarking the whole day) drivers, but the same damn 12kb/ps. It is like being back with landline telkom
Sorry
 
It's hard for me to say what's wrong, I really don't know except if it was caused by some software ;) I hope someone else comes and helps you ;)
 
teraside said:
It's hard for me to say what's wrong, I really don't know except if it was caused by some software ;) I hope someone else comes and helps you ;)
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Thanx for the help.
DO YOU THINK IT WILL HELP TO FORMAT????? totally
hehe
Bye
Chris
 
lol, format is a last resort. I'll bump this thread for you tomorrow and ask for more help ;) All the big brains are chilling in their beds at the moment ;)
 
I promised I'd bump this thread for Mr. Lionking.

Do any of you dudes know what's wrong? ;)
 
Hi Lionking,
Drop me a PVT message regarding your network setup. IPConfig on your PC compared to the other lan PC's - I need some info on your network setup, routing, iptables, routing info etc. More info the better.

Regards,
 
Lionking said:
Hi there
Firstly, I hope I'm in the rihgt section, if not, sorrry...
Here is my problem....,
I'm running wireless in my town from a local supplier. I have XP SP2 on AMD 3.6. Okay, now I have joined these people for 1 1/2 months now, and download at speed of 96kbps (123 if lucky). So, everything okay so far, untill the shop was taken over by new owners. I was offline for two days, and then everything was okay again. Until Friday!!! I had no connection, and on Saturday they came out to fix my problem of no connection.....Problem solved and they left. I wanna download, and noticed that I download only at 12 and 15kbps. My other pc (kids plays on it), is connect through the network, and I was playing around today (15th), on there machine, and noticed that the browsing is faster, and decided to download anyfile. Guess what, I downloaded at 98 and 123kbps. I checked my machine again, downloaded the same file......14kbps. Can someone please give me advice. I ran NOD32 today, no virusses!!! What can I check that is different on these two machines of mine.
Sorry for all the typing here. Only way to explain my problem.
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With what download manager are you downloading the file(s)? If you use any download managers then check that they're not set to throttle the downloads.
 
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