http://www.dslreports.com download Dr.TCP.. run their tweak test... enter in
the suggested values and restart networking.
Windows does *not* come optimized for broadband connections out of the
box... this step must be taken to squeeze as much speed out of your
connection as possible... for me, the difference was noticeable!!
"Spirefm" <Spirefm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7689A096-38B8-4F5F-A642-5D8686E408E9@microsoft.com...
>I ran a comparison last night between XP and Vista downloading the same
>file
> with the same .exe file and the same settings. XP ran at 50KB/s and Vista
> at
> 8KB/s. I repeated the test with the same result. I suspect its because of
> all
> the extra security. It makes Vista unuseable for me so I'll have to
> investigate further. Apart from that, Vista seems fine. Colin