Stuart Forshaw

Hi Mick and to Dean

This updated driver really is a problem, I have downloaded the same
allegedly updated driver directly from the realtek site as per Dean's idea.

It is exactly the same driver v6.103.126.2007 as from Microsoft and causes
exactly the same problems, e.g slow connectivity/downloads and connection
dropouts. Rolling back to v6.101.1124.2006 resolves the issue.

I have notified realtek by email. To all users I suggest that you proceed
with caution regarding this update if using Vista, as yet we haven't tried
it on XP.

Regards
Stuart


"Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96E7B2F6-226B-41E2-96EF-341193DDFB5F@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for that. Microsoft has a BAD habit of mucking around with NIC
> cards
> updates; they always have done it.
> I have a policy with any NIC updates: " if it is working, don't download
> probs"
>
> "Stuart Forshaw" wrote:
>
>> I hope this proves helpful to all.
>>
>> We received yesterday via Microsoft Update an updated driver for Realtek
>> RTL8139 series ethernet NIC cards v6.103.126.2007, which we duly
>> accepted,
>> downloaded, reboot etc.
>>
>> However we noticed that connection to the internet was slow to say the
>> least
>> and downloads either would not connect or took for ever and a day to
>> receive. Consequently we rolled back the driver to version
>> 6.101.1124.2006
>> all appears fine again.
>>
>> Today we have had 5 customers contact us to say they had an update
>> yesterday
>> and now they either cannot connect or connection is very slow. On
>> investigation we found that they had also had the Realtek download via
>> Microsoft Update and having rolled back the driver in all cases,
>> connections
>> are now back to normal.
>>
>> I hope this helps anyone who is now experiencing similar problems.
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>
>>