waldoboy
join:2005-05-01
Louisville, KY
| [Speeds] One PC's fast online, & the other's slooow....
I'm having an odd problem. I have two computers on a home network. Both have Windows XP Pro, SP 2. One is a Pentium III 450Mhz with 576 megs of RAM. THe other is a Pentium 4, 1 GB with 512 megs of RAM. Both are connected to a Netgear router. One flies online, but the other one drags.
Here's what's puzzling me: the Pentiun III 450 is getting screaming downloads, to the tune of 3 megs down and 350k up. But the newer PC, with the 1 Gig chip, only gets about 350k
down, with 350 up. This is an average over the course of three speed tests, using the speakeasy.net server out of Seattle from bbreports.com.
The one X factor is that I just installed Windows XP on the newer PC. Speeds were great before, when it had Windows 98SE, but I was looking to upgrade the newer PC and installed the XP on a new hard drive.
The Pentium III 450 is a Dell with an integrated network adapter, which shows up as a 3Com3C918. The newer, 1 Gig PC also has an integrated network adapter, which is an SiS 900.
No speed tweaks on the older PC, by the way - all native.
No software firewalls, either.
And there's nothing running in the background on the newer XP machine that would clog the connection.
Since the newer PC was getting great speeds when it had Win98SE on it, I doubt the speed reduction is hardware-related. Anything I can do to perk things up on the newer PC? Hope somebody can help. |
