Marty McCutch

Excellent! Pleased to be of help. I'm relieved too - I've spent all week
trying to work out what the hell was wrong with it!!

"GooDFeLLoW" wrote:

> marty, you are my hero. lol. i'm also using a Realtek card, so i rolled
> back the driver like you suggested, and it looks like the problem may be
> resolved. i'm going to restart and everything and make sure. i'm so happy
> something finally worked.
>
> Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC, and i rolled back to driver
> number 5.640.630.2006 from 6/21/2006.
>
> thanks again!
>
> "Marty McCutch" wrote:
>
> > 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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