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| Thread ID: 80627 | 2007-06-29 20:55:00 | Internet seems slow today | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 564469 | 2007-07-01 04:50:00 | From The Register Sûnnet Beskerming researchers observed an interesting deviation in global network traffic over the last 24 hours, particularly for South American, Asian, and Australian networks. Normally, global Internet traffic (as observed by the Internet Traffic Report) oscillates around nine per cent packet loss, with global response times of 138 ms, and the internally derived traffic index at around 79. Sustained over the last 24 hours, the traffic index has dipped almost five per cent, packet loss has climbed to 11 per cent, and the global response time to almost 150 ms. Might be why?? Who knows. |
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| 564470 | 2007-08-03 01:15:00 | I'm on Woosh wireless broadband. Over the last week or more speed has been same as or slower than dialup. I have not gone past my cap of 5500mb. I'm trying to download a 25mb file now and the speed is only 2.8kbyte/s | procosm (6108) | ||
| 564471 | 2007-08-03 01:25:00 | My net's been fine, but it was disconnected when I woke up this morning. Once reconnected I've had no issues. ISP: Xnet. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 564472 | 2007-08-08 01:02:00 | I'm on Woosh wireless broadband. Over the last week or more speed has been same as or slower than dialup. I have not gone past my cap of 5500mb. I'm trying to download a 25mb file now and the speed is only 2.8kbyte/sDitto here for the last week to ten days. Went in to Woosh in Newmarket this morning, did some tests with the guy on the front desk and established that Zonealarm (Security Suite v7.0.337) appeared to be the culprit. I have been a strong supporter of ZA products for many years, but it appears a recent update has slowed download speeds horrendously. I have gone back to ZA SS v6.5.737 to see whether that make any difference.... If things don't improve I will dump ZA (on both my machines)and try AVG. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 564473 | 2007-08-08 02:03:00 | You do realise that ZoneAlarm and AVG do completely different things? ZoneAlarm is a firewall, and AVG is an antivirus product. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 564474 | 2007-08-08 02:03:00 | PF1 going to intl.adbuerau is worse than a snail.It is the worst I have come across ever | kjaada (253) | ||
| 564475 | 2007-08-08 03:25:00 | Ditto here for the last week to ten days. Went in to Woosh in Newmarket this morning, did some tests with the guy on the front desk and established that Zonealarm (Security Suite v7.0.337) appeared to be the culprit. I have been a strong supporter of ZA products for many years, but it appears a recent update has slowed download speeds horrendously. I have gone back to ZA SS v6.5.737 to see whether that make any difference.... If things don't improve I will dump ZA (on both my machines)and try AVG. I am using a hardware firewall in my router (Linksys BEFSR41). The reason: to make the woosh modem work in three operating systems: Windows, Linux and Beos. I haven't tried the speed in Beos but in Windows and Linux it is slow. I could try to see if it is any faster in Windows by connecting the woosh modem directly to a USB port but I doubt that the router firewall would cause this. |
procosm (6108) | ||
| 564476 | 2007-08-08 04:24:00 | You do realise that ZoneAlarm and AVG do completely different things? ZoneAlarm is a firewall, and AVG is an antivirus product.Yes - the ZA I have is the Security Suite which does both. At the moment I can see a small improvement running the older version, but if I end up dumping it I know I will have to get a firewall in addition to AVG. Probably using the recommendations in numerous other posts on PF1! :) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 564477 | 2007-08-08 04:27:00 | I am using a hardware firewall in my router (Linksys BEFSR41). The reason: to make the woosh modem work in three operating systems: Windows, Linux and Beos. I haven't tried the speed in Beos but in Windows and Linux it is slow. I could try to see if it is any faster in Windows by connecting the woosh modem directly to a USB port but I doubt that the router firewall would cause this.My experience with Woosh modems and USB is - don't! Pctek gave me great advice and advised me to use an ethernet connection - MUCH better... as far as reliability is concerned, not speed :( | johcar (6283) | ||
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