[hanpil]

I used to use an amd athlon 2400+ w/ 256 ram custom built from a while ago hehe, then i switched to a sony vaio p4 512 ram and all, and i put in the ram and harddrive from my old comp to upgrade the vaio a bit. anyway, my situation has been that ever i switched to the vaio my downloads are very slow

i.e., downloading from yousendit.com used to be at 300-500 kB/s on my old comp, now it starts at 200 kB then drops down to 90 kB after just 10 secs of downloading.

another example is when i am watching a video online, the buffering goes 2% to 19% to 50% back down to 2% until about 3 minutes later it would be 100% buffering.

what is wrong with this vaio computer? I'm not getting the full bandwidth potential i should be getting.

[awdark]

Eh... lots of possiblities.

Your Vaio.. are you running your old hard drive or the one that came with the vaio? trying to figure out driver conflicts.

Is it onboard NIC or is it a NIC card.. or is it wifi?

then again it might be the fault of your internet provider....

[hanpil]

im running it from the one that was already installed. there shouldnt be any driver conflicts since i actually havent reformatted or anything. it is an onboard NIC card. and i dont think its my isp's fault because on other computers in my house, they are able to receive speeds of up to 600 kB.

my friend told me it could be because i put the jumpers on the slave drive wrong? i see there are 2 ways to make my hdd a slave drive. i guess ill try the other way and hope for the best.

but any further recommendations will be great!

[awdark]

Nah, that doesn't screw with performance. Probably cable select vs Master/slave settings.

Have you been downloading like from HTTP servers or FTP or torrent like servers to do the speed test? Because torrent ones would make XP service pack 2 conflicts possible.

Nah, that doesn't screw with performance. Probably cable select vs Master/slave settings.

Have you been downloading like from HTTP servers or FTP or torrent like servers to do the speed test? Because torrent ones would make XP service pack 2 conflicts possible.

[hanpil]

ive had media files streamed. http servers, ftp too. and the download is still oddly slow. network cables are all good, i also have taken out the second harddrive, and same speeds.


oh yah! btw, before i inhereted this computer, its primary source of internet connection was dial up. i hooked it up with cable internet with no problems. does the dial up info even make any difference in any settings i would have to change in WINDOWS??

[erniehkwon]

what is wrong with this vaio computer? I'm not getting the full bandwidth potential i should be getting.

Check NIC card settings for connection mode, change to 10Mbs full duplex instead of AUTO. If you have a router in line, set it for 10 Mbs full duplex instead of AUTO.

Problem: NIC card or router set for AUTO connection will try to shift back and forth between 10Mbs and 100 Mbs connection rate. This can cause the DSL ethernet link to become painfully slow or disconnect intermittently.

Edited: changed Mhz to Mbs. Oops.

[awdark]

but 500kb/sec means that he has a 5mbit line. And 10mbit will give you about 8mbit of bandwith at a minimum... unless he has some extreme packet loss or extra overhead from unknown sources...
Hrmm interesting if that works tho.