[dba-Tech] Slow broadband

I had a similar problem... One of the PCs in the house was working fine, one
of the other was was having all sorts of disconnection problems, and just
wasn't fast... So I tried loads of things, before buying a new router, which
cured it.


Jon 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim
Sent: 14 September 2006 19:40
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Slow broadband

Recently I took advantage of Time Warner's offer to upgrade to their premier
broadband service.This is supposed to increase speed to between 6-8 Mbps
down and .5 up from 2-4 Mbps currently. My main machine, as measured using
several internet sites, stayed at exactly 1.73 Mbps. Upload increased from
.17 to .35. After complaining TW had me check my other machines (after
rebooting all machines and resetting the modem and router). Sure enough the
other machines increased markedly to 4.9 Mbps. The slow machine is a 6 year
old Dell optiplex running windows 2000 prof with Norton firewall and virus
protection. The other machines are cheap but newer HPs running Windows XP
prof. and Norton antivirus (no firewall). The router is a standard linksys.
I turned off the Norton firewall with no improvement. Does anyone know what
is going on here and how to fix it? TIA Jim Hale

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