Mowgli1647545497 Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 (edited) So I upgraded to Winmdows 7 last night and now my internet has gone thru the floor. Prior to this I had XP and logged ~6.5Mbps on a speed test. Now it pegs at ~0.50Mbps. Its like its throttled. Bounces right up to .5Mbps and stays there. I tested on my other PC, a laptop still on XP and its still at 6.5Mbps. so its not my router or cable modem. Help! Details: Fresh Windows 7 (64bit ultimate) install on a new drive No hardware changes at all except added the new harddrive wireless is a PCI Linksys WMP300N Router is also Linksys Excellent to very good signal strength What I've tried so far: I've tried several driver updates. Tried allowing Win7 to use the default broadcom driver. Its currently running on the default driver. I tried doing the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled I disabled IPv6 support double HELP. Edited October 27, 2009 by Mowgli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakotart Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 nevermind. already tried what I suggested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 I doubt there is much troubleshooting experience with the OS yet. I am installing it tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sciongirl Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 i didnt have any problems with it like this... hmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAOLE Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Another Windows failboat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHaze Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Another Windows failboat Look who you and your Mac are in company with: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/al-gore-three-monitors.jpg http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/barackismac.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benner Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Windows 7 runs perfect on my Macbook. Speeds are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Look who you and your Mac are in company with: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/al-gore-three-monitors.jpg http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/barackismac.jpg don't forget Spaceghost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmy43016 Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 what drivers have you tried? vista driver? 7 drivers should be out now, but vistas drivers should work until manufacturers update drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 I haven't had any speed issues at all with Windows 7. Same inconsistent speeds I've always gotten with Time Warner. OS wise, everything runs quicker than it did in Vista; all hardware is identical to my Vista install (well, I added a 6th hard drive, but Windows 7 is sitting on my RAID-0 like Vista did). 64-bit, Ultimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Just loaded 7 with VMWare fusion 3 today and my page load is faster than my XP virtual machine on the same Mac. Boot is faster, shutdown is faster, I am pleased. It's just not as fast as Snow Leopard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Mike, I know, it's shameful to be in the same company as two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankis Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Using it for a couple months now, no issues like this at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHaze Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Mike, I know, it's shameful to be in the same company as two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Any day now, the Mac commercials will start referring to the correlation between Macs and Nobel Prizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 I haven't had any speed issues at all with Windows 7. Same inconsistent speeds I've always gotten with Time Warner. OS wise, everything runs quicker than it did in Vista; all hardware is identical to my Vista install (well, I added a 6th hard drive, but Windows 7 is sitting on my RAID-0 like Vista did). 64-bit, Ultimate. I love 7, I got a Crucial SSD and talk about fast booting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Gates is being interviewed tonight on TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excell Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Not sure either. Haven't experienced that on any 7 install I've seen including mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I heard there is a free upgrade for vista users...how the heck do I get that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan9381 Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 fine here... Share your results Last Result: Download Speed: 7636 kbps (954.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1085 kbps (135.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost face Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I had the same problem earlier today. My firefox would literally freeze up for minutes and than run fine and kept doing that. All i did was restart my computer couple of times, and there was some kind of update and now it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Found and fixed the problem. For some reason there were two network adapters present in Device manager: - the Broadcom one that runs my linksys card - and an Atheros L1 gigabit card one. hmm no idea why that second one was there - I'd disabled the motherboard's onboard network port in bios before I started the install. Anyhoo, I disabled the Atheros in Device Manager and *poof* back up to speed. In fact its now ~45% faster than XP was: its now ~9.7Mbps down (upload unaffected). Whew. ---------- Wondering if I should turn IPv6 support back on. Or the other stuff..... probably wont until I run into some other problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.cos Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 So weird i have not heard of speeds tanking, actually quite the opposite, hope you get it figured out. There are also the Seven forums that are pretty knowledgeable.. **i see you fixed it** Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I probably won't upgrade to winders 7 until 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTurbo Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I heard there is a free upgrade for vista users...how the heck do I get that? Only applies if you have purchased a computer running Vista, or the OS as a box unit after June 26, 2009. Fuckers don't offer it for everyone. Hey guess what Microsoft, The Vista I got two years ago is still the same shitty Vista you're letting your recent customers freely upgrade from, you fuckers. The wifes new laptop has 7 Ultimate on it, and thus far, its much better all around. Still have to grant permission for certain applications to run though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Still have to grant permission for certain applications to run though. It takes about 10 seconds to disable UAC and fix that. Hell, doesn't even require a reboot now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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