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injuneer · 10-05-2008, 13:30

I installed this on Wednesday with no problem. However I have since noticed that my ADSL download speeds have dropped to 10% of what they previously were! (usually around 3 MB/s but now 300 KB/s & only about 10KB/s when downloading email!) Upload speeds were unaltered at about 1MB/s.
I was going to complain to O2 but then thought I'd drop back to SP2 just in case, low & behold everything is back to normal. Has anybody else experienced this? I was wondering if it was a USB2 issue as I use a Thomson Wireless adapter in a USB2 port. I have read about people having data transfer speed problems when using external hard drives after loading SP3.

10-05-2008, 13:30	#86
injuneer Makka Pakka! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Outer Hebrides Age: 50 Services: o2 8Mb/s, Freeview, 2 Baked Bean tins & a bit of taut string Posts: 287	Re: XP SP3 coming.. I installed this on Wednesday with no problem. However I have since noticed that my ADSL download speeds have dropped to 10% of what they previously were! (usually around 3 MB/s but now 300 KB/s & only about 10KB/s when downloading email!) Upload speeds were unaltered at about 1MB/s. I was going to complain to O2 but then thought I'd drop back to SP2 just in case, low & behold everything is back to normal. Has anybody else experienced this? I was wondering if it was a USB2 issue as I use a Thomson Wireless adapter in a USB2 port. I have read about people having data transfer speed problems when using external hard drives after loading SP3. __________________ six munce ago I cudent even spel injuneer now I is wun