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| Thread ID: 147695 | 2019-03-12 20:51:00 | why is my download speed crawling on just one machine? | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1458914 | 2019-03-12 20:51:00 | I have 4 PCs on a wired network. I have a VDSL connection. Usually I get around 40 mbps download, 8-9 mbps upload. For some reason today 3 of the PCs are getting the usual speeds, but one PC is crawling - about 3mps download, and a faster upload! AFAIK nothing has changed in the environment. Any ideas? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1458915 | 2019-03-12 21:54:00 | I have 4 PCs on a wired network. I have a VDSL connection. Usually I get around 40 mbps download, 8-9 mbps upload. For some reason today 3 of the PCs are getting the usual speeds, but one PC is crawling - about 3mps download, and a faster upload! AFAIK nothing has changed in the environment. Any ideas? need more info :) all on wifi, some on wifi , all using ethernet cable ? Win10 , Win7 ? is the slow one trying to download Winupdates ? Power saving enabled on the slow ones wifi/LAN DRIVER ? some drivers had a 'reduce link speed' power save option that can cause issues How did you test download speed ? did you try with all others off except the slow one ? has the wifi/LAN driver been updated via a win update ? Is wifi disabled on the slow one (driver disabled) Try the slow one, with all the others off, and the slow one connected directly to the router via cable (no wifi, no hubs/switches/extenders etc) Try a different browser when testing the slow one. Disable anything running in the background Run the speed tests multiple time to get an average : https://www.speedtest.net/ |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1458916 | 2019-03-12 22:07:00 | In order: All wired - as stated in the original post. All on Win 10. No the slow one is not downloading updates. Power saving not enabled. Tested via Speedtest - many times. All about the same speed. All the others tested via Speedtest with expected (i.e. fast) results. Haven't tried the slow one by itself - I can try that later. AFAIK the LAN driver has not been updated lately. The most recent WIN update was 8/3/19, and it has shown no evidence of a performance hot before today. WIFI is not available on the affected machine - see first response. One obvious thing to do is just a reboot. I can't do that right now. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1458917 | 2019-03-13 00:46:00 | A reboot seems to have fixed it. Maybe there was some background process that I was unaware of hogging bandwidth. Or just Windows being weird (nothing new there...) Thanks for the advice. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1458918 | 2019-03-13 03:00:00 | A reboot seems to have fixed it. Maybe there was some background process that I was unaware of hogging bandwidth. Or just Windows being weird (nothing new there...) Thanks for the advice. x2 there Tony W10 laptop, 8 gig mem, Takes ages to boot and under 5 seconds to shutdown, used to be under 10 seconds to boot, rofl. Have to keep changing the desktop icon cache. Still waiting for fiber to be run/blown up to house. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1458919 | 2019-03-17 17:39:00 | Thank you so much, I have used the speed test site to test mu internet speed and it was very good. This clown changed the link given by 1101 in his post. Spam. Sneaky A**hole! |
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