A little help from my geek family...

spiel2001 · 03-15-10, 06:35 PM

Okay... So, I installed Windoze 7 and everything seems fine *except* my internet connections are *CRAWLING* It's taking *minutes* to load web pages, make e-mail server connections, etc. I had W7 on this machine previously (the beta) and my latency in WoW was 57ms... now it's over 300ms and even that I'm not sure is "honest" I have installed Leatrix Latency fix and it hasn't helped. I also tried deleting my wireless connection and recreating it. Something's *really* wrong here. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what I should be looking at?

Vis · 03-15-10, 07:01 PM

Just to check...

When you installed the full version of Win7, did you wipe your partition and do a clean install or use the existing setup and just input the key?

If you wiped it, did you get the latest and greatest drivers for your wireless or did you use the Win7 supplied ones?

xandora · 03-15-10, 08:29 PM

That the issue I run into most when I reinstall an operating system, forgetting to install the network drivers!

Petrah · 03-16-10, 04:38 AM

What Xandora said. ^^

If you did indeed install your motherboard chipset drivers, then try going to the NIC card manufacturers site and see if there are newer ones available.

spiel2001 · 03-16-10, 05:15 AM

Actually, yes... I have installed the Intel Pro Set Wireless drivers for Windows 7 direct from the Intel site. I also uninstalled Adobe Flash and Shockwave in case one of them was causing the issue.

Still stuck. It appears the connections to the internet are instantaneous, but the throughput is horrid.

I have no problem with internet access from my daughter's computer, so I don't believe it's the network itself.

EDIT: I think I have a clue what's going on... if I download a single file I get great speed... 147meg in just over 1 minute... however, while I'm downloading that file *every* other internet access request fails (timed out). It looks to me like my entire network interface is single threaded (one request at a time) which makes it take forever to download web pages that have lots of content, css, images, includes, etc.

Petrah · 03-16-10, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by spiel2001

It looks to me like my entire network interface is single threaded (one request at a time) which makes it take forever to download web pages that have lots of content, css, images, includes, etc.

How do you go about fixing that?