Vista - Notebook internet connection slowness

**watsonjoshd** · 09-13-2008

On my wife's laptop running Vista home premium, I noticed that it was downloading an update at an abnormally slow rate. I stopped the update and performed a speed test; the laptop is getting consistently between 128 and 300 kbps or so, whether it is connected via LAN cable, or Wireless connection. I hooked up my Desktop's NIC to the same cable, and it is getting a consistent 3000 kbps. I thought perhaps she had a rogue process, so I checked her task manager's performance monitor, all looks nominal, and it shows no network traffic when idling. What are some of the things that could cause such a slow-down, when other computers on the network perform so much better under the same conditions? Please let me know if I can provide any further information to help us figure this out. Thank you.

09-13-2008	#1 (permalink)
watsonjoshd Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1 8 posts	Notebook internet connection slowness On my wife's laptop running Vista home premium, I noticed that it was downloading an update at an abnormally slow rate. I stopped the update and performed a speed test; the laptop is getting consistently between 128 and 300 kbps or so, whether it is connected via LAN cable, or Wireless connection. I hooked up my Desktop's NIC to the same cable, and it is getting a consistent 3000 kbps. I thought perhaps she had a rogue process, so I checked her task manager's performance monitor, all looks nominal, and it shows no network traffic when idling. What are some of the things that could cause such a slow-down, when other computers on the network perform so much better under the same conditions? Please let me know if I can provide any further information to help us figure this out. Thank you.
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