| [Speed] a month of annoying slow upload speeds I have an Arris TG862G, and ever since the "upgrade" on March 2nd my upload speeds have been hovering around 1mbps. The last time I was frequently testing, last August, my ups were around 4. I have my own thread about it here - »[Speed] after speed "upgrade", Skype drops, need HELP! - but replies have gotten sparse now. I had a CC tech at the house Friday tracing and securing all lines. As the wireless laptop in the house speed-tests at around 40 down and 4.5 up he concluded the problem is all in my desktop. My Windows 7 install is almost a year old, which for me means numerous 3rd party software installs, while the laptop is factory fresh Toshiba Win 7 Home, plus Firefox, only.
Oddly, as you can see in the attachment, on the first day I got 41.4 mb down. By the second day that dropped to the low-to-mid twenties with no new software installed.
You can also see a test under Safe Mode, didn't improve the down speed but the up speed is WAY faster, the way it should be. And used to be.
Sending things to Dropbox is a pain now, and Skype has gone from good to barely tolerable.
I don't want to have to reinstall Win7 Pro hoping to get my upload speed back, but tracing the problem is probably beyond my skills.
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As for any more dealings with CC over this, the only thing I can think of is to ask for a price break. But I'd be happier to just get the old speed back. |
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 EGThe wings of lovePremium
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kudos:9 | My understanding is that they have rolled back the firmware update to the prior code for now. Perhaps powercycling / resetting the device will help to pull it. |
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| Thanks, that was interesting. I power cycled the device, including pulling the battery and powering off the pc. On the left you can see the strange results after the reboot and testing right away. Then I needed to run errands, just left everything on and untouched for an hour or so, returned and re-ran the test, results on the right, back to the usual. |
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Man that is odd? |
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Wednesday night, 4-03-2013 08:42 PM 22.69 Down and 1.88 Up.
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The 1.88 Up reading is more than double the typical speed over the last month. I got it after finding and running TCPOptimizer 3.08 on its default Optimize setting. 1.88 is still not good at all.
I just now ran the test again. The server was slow to even feed the flash, never seen such a slow Down of 3.67, and a typical Up of 0.93
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 PeteC2Got Mouse?Premium,MVM
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| said by rootazoid:I got it after finding and running TCPOptimizer 3.08 on its default Optimize setting. 1.88 is still not good at all.
TCPOptimizer does nothing for Windows 7...no point at all to use it.
You didn't mention this, but are your results via wireless, or direct ethernet to your desktop? It could be either the nic or even the ethernet cable if hard-wired, or the wireless card (if wireless) in your desktop, since your laptop performs much better.
Since you have tried a fresh install of the OS, I would be suspicious of a hardware issue.
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| Thanks Pete
>TCPOptimizer does nothing for Windows 7...no point at all to use it.
OK, good to know.
>You didn't mention this, but are your results via wireless,
I thought it was clear, my results are from my ethernet wired desktop. There's some bottleneck on it that isn't true of the wireless laptop.
>Since you have tried a fresh install of the OS
No, not at all, haven't done that. That's what I'm trying to avoid |
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test a moment ago: 22.88 down, 0.66 up
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I was wondering about what large background processes are running on this desktop that aren't running on the laptop and that might be causing the much slower desktop speedtests. The biggest two are my Logitech webcam software and the ATI Catalyst driver/CCControl (which is a stretch to think it affects network speeds). Turned off the Logitech, didn't make any difference. About the Catalyst, even looking at the Help I don't see a way to temporarily disable it for a test. I'm also a bit wary of fiddling with it without a wise advisor. |
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 mb
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Washington, NJ | AVAST slowed down my uploads, I reverted back to Avira |
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| said by mb:AVAST slowed down my uploads, I reverted back to Avira
Yes, security programs were my first suspects. All I run is MS Security Essentials and Malwarebytes. Turning them both off made no difference. |
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OK PeteC2, if there's no point in running the Optimizer, what about the Analyzer from the same folks? I had run the Optimizer once, told it my speed was the highest number I'd ever seen - easily a mistake to do but I didn't know any better - and then ran its default. Then, over at the Analyzer, I got this result. After I saw this I returned to the Optimizer to see about optimizing the RWIN but didn't see anything. It's a bit over my head. Any suggestions? |
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| Windows 7 automatically adjusts the RWIN value by default. There are ways to change its behavior though, here's some info. You can also try resetting the TCP/IP stack, instructions here. When I worked at a local ISP years ago, I had quite a few problems that were resolved with doing that.
FWIW, I've never had to change the default settings on Windows 7, and from my experience, RWIN has a much greater effect on downstream speeds.
I'd ask you to run ShaperProbe as well, but it's down right now. What about trying it in a different browser, or booting from a Linux live distro?
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