Sorry you are having problems. Just as a comparison, my results on that
bandwidth measurement is 5230.8 Kbps. I am running Vista Home Premium with
IE7 and Earthlink/Comcast cable modem.
"Tigger" <Tigger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Like many people I've been stunned by how slow my Vista machine is. I have
> an
> emachines 6805 running Windows XP Home, talking to my wireless Dlink
> router
> DI-604. When I go to the CNET Bandwidth measurement page, I see about 2000
> kbps for my Windows XP machine (3 years old, Opteron processor in that
> thing).
>
> The link for the bandwidth tester is
> http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/
>
> I have Comcast cable by the way.
>
> So I try the same thing with my brand-new Lenovo R61 Core 2 Duo 4MB cache,
> 2
> GB ram machine... and I get 56.8 kbps!! That's like a dial-up modem. This
> is
> PATHETIC! Microsoft you really screwed up. If this isn't fixed in a jiffy
> this will be my last Windows machine for personal use! I have Windows
> Vista
> Basic, and almost everything else is out of the box.
>
> I tried futzing around with "netsh interface tcp" with advice found using
> Google searches, setting auto-tuning to "disabled" and to
> "highlyrestricted"... no help there. I tried uninstalling Norton/Semantec
> crapola that came with the machine, and turning off the phishing filter...
> no
> help there. But -- and this is the real important point -- ordinary people
> should NOT have to futz around like this with your flagship Microsoft
> product. You are BEGGING the world to stop buying your software. I know
> that's how I feel, really really angry that I've already wasted half a day
> tweaking a new computer that is basically worthless on arrival.