philco
20-03-2008, 14:36
Hello,
A few days ago I upgraded from the 4mb service to the 20mb service - and so far so good.
I have a SURFboard4100 cable modem which goes to a Netgear Router. From the router I go to the desktop by cable and wirefree to my laptop.
One thing I've noticed through running several speed tests (www.speedtest.net) is that (with figs approx):
The best my (wired) desktop pc can manage is about 1.33MB
My laptop (wirefree) consistently manages 2.0MB.
I've done the tests at various times of day/evening and the results are always the same.
The desktop pc is using Windows XP Home Edition the laptop is using Vista.
The laptop and the desktop are both running Zone Alarm pro with identical settings.
I've taken the cable from the back of the desktop and plugged it into the laptop and run a speedtest and it still shows about 2MB. That says to me that somewhere my desktop pc is dragging down performance.
I've done the tweaks recommended on the VM site. Auto detect is much better than full or half duplex and unchecking QOS brought about a very small improvement in speed. (I haven't actually unistalled QOS, just unchecked it.)
Obviously there are significant hardware difference but both are running Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 2GB of RAM.
Any ideas anybody.
philco
A few days ago I upgraded from the 4mb service to the 20mb service - and so far so good.
I have a SURFboard4100 cable modem which goes to a Netgear Router. From the router I go to the desktop by cable and wirefree to my laptop.
One thing I've noticed through running several speed tests (www.speedtest.net) is that (with figs approx):
The best my (wired) desktop pc can manage is about 1.33MB
My laptop (wirefree) consistently manages 2.0MB.
I've done the tests at various times of day/evening and the results are always the same.
The desktop pc is using Windows XP Home Edition the laptop is using Vista.
The laptop and the desktop are both running Zone Alarm pro with identical settings.
I've taken the cable from the back of the desktop and plugged it into the laptop and run a speedtest and it still shows about 2MB. That says to me that somewhere my desktop pc is dragging down performance.
I've done the tweaks recommended on the VM site. Auto detect is much better than full or half duplex and unchecking QOS brought about a very small improvement in speed. (I haven't actually unistalled QOS, just unchecked it.)
Obviously there are significant hardware difference but both are running Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 2GB of RAM.
Any ideas anybody.
philco