I'm having very similar problems, and the above didn't work for me either.
I'm beginning to suspeect that it may be a driver issue. Mine is a LAN
connection through a Realtek card - is this also true of other people having
the same problem? Think I'll try to roll back to an older driver...
"GooDFeLLoW" wrote:
> Thanks for all the great help everyone!
> Sadly none of the previously mentioned steps have helped my situation... let
> me give some more info in case anyone would like to attempt to direct me...
> I started experiencing the issue of extremely slow downloads. This would
> occur on many programs: IE7, iTunesMusicStore, etc.
> This problem is only on my comptuer running Vista. There are other comp's
> in the house, running off the same modem (some using a router), and their
> download speed is still great. My ISP is AT&T DSL, and it is usually
> extremely fast.
> Many downloads will timeout. My iTunes downloads, for example, always give
> me a network timeout, whereas they would normally take about 2 whole seconds
> to complete.
> In general, basic internet usage is slower, but not totally unusable. Any
> large downloads, however, will not complete at all. If I try to watch a
> video on youtube, for example, only the first few seconds will download.
> I've tried disabling all add-ons... all security/firewall programs... ran
> the command prompt line mentioned above...
>
> Oh and finally let me say that I have been using Vista for a few months with
> excellent download speed. The probem started only recently....
>
> "Calvin D. Cantrell" wrote:
>
> > This solutuion worked for me! I had tried everything and I had never tried
> > the autotune thing unitl now.
> > Although, I dont think setting the system to default autotune is the best
> > way to do the final release..
> > I mean really this will piss lot of users off.. if their browser doesnt work
> > right out of the box. Of course this is assuming this issue is not changed
> > in RC2 or the final release.
> >
> >
> >
> > "rapierau" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Very common problem - try the following solutions
> > >
> > > Turn off TLS encryption in the Internet Options advanced tab and turn
> > > on SSL 2.0. This will fix some secure pages.
> > >
> > >
> > > The major fix is this and I quote...
> > >
> > > It appears that some sites cannot be opened with Vista (beta 2) because
> > > the webservers don't respond well to the tcp autotuning feature that is
> > > enabled by default. I managed to access the sites by turning off this
> > > network auto tuning with the command:
> > >
> > > netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
> > >
> > > Since this is a network setting, it affects all browsers. It's not a
> > > IE7 issue.
> > >
> > > unquote
> > >
> > > Best of Luck
> > >
> > >
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