Windows vista internet performance

Praise the Lord. The coming up question is "what is the replacement for McAfee? I've recently installed Vista and was aware of the potential problem with internet speed, initailly all was fine then suddenly the internet slowed to dial-up speed, I checked back with event viewer and realised the problem started when an Update Windows Vista KB installed itself, I uninstalled this update and the problem vanished, don't ask me why or what this update is supposed to do, but uninstalling it fixed things for me.

I had the same problem with a new Compaq laptop and Windows Vista Home. The culprit eventually was the security suite offered by Cox Communication. Once I uninstalled it and then added the free AVG antivirus everything ran smoothly. The previously mentioned was installed and made no difference in my case.

It is odd that I did not even have the anti-phishing or parental control portion of the security suite installed on the laptop and the Authentium software still slowed me down. After playing with my antivirus and firewall it finally clicked, what has changed since purchased my new machine and it ran so quickly on the internet.

Come on Microsoft get your act together and let us know which update is causing this prblem and how you intend to fix it. So to all you ot there running Vista with slow internet remove all your updated updates.

I have been reading all these posts about slow internet. Has anyone deleted cookies, temp files, history? How about disk clean-up and defrag? These work wonders to speed things up. It should be done every days, at least. I do mine maually. My internet zips right along all the time.

I have an HP slimline 1gig memory, gig hd. Have had it about a yr now. I've done a defrag, and have cleaned out cookies a couple different times. No improvment. I am really disappointed with Vista because of this. Bruce N. Baker - MSFT wrote: There are many reasons why slow internet problems can potentially occur, 3rd party products can often create problems as can many many other things. With that said, the best approach is to contact main MS support or your computer vendor if you continue to have problems, often they may know about what product might create the problem and have a solution for you.

Could the MSFT post possibly be less helpful? Your solution - 'it may be someone else's fault. I have called Verizon, Lynksys, and Dell, and spent hours on the phone with them -- they all say that it is a Vista problem.

Although I can't get on the internet at home, your post gives me comfort that there are "many many other things" that could create a problem on a brand new computer. Seems like the common one that is causing the problem for people everywhere is Vista. Thanks for your help and all of the great suggestions Bruce! I changed my power settings for my wireless adapter from Maximum Power Saving to Maximum Performance and my internet speed is now back to normal Look on the top left it will say view installed updates click the link, a list will appear with all the updates, select one or as many as you want then uninstall.

I just got a new Dell machine on Vista Business and have intermittent cut outs of my internet connection i. Renders the internet very slow and VPN unusable. This only occurs with this particular modem; same problem does not occur on this computer at friends house with a different DSL modem or at work.

Have spent hrs trying to find a solution for this! Pretty frustrated at both Microsoft for the useless operating system not the first problem I've had with vista and at DLink for selling a product which does not even state that it isn't compatible with Vista. Phoned DLink and was told "buy a new modem"; how much crappier tech service can you get??

I am using Vista home premium and my download speeds are slower than my othe laptop that is running Xp checked online. I can get kb speeds with the xp and only kb on vista, even though vista is running on a more powerful system.

I really like the look of vista compared to xp and wish that microsoft would look into this problems on these pages and come up with a solution for us. It seems that I have tried everything but can't seem to improve the speed. I found that AVG was making my internet slow, i dont know why but its fast now. Although the arp table seems to be wrong still, browsing has sped right up.

I have AOL broadband etc. I fixed it in no time. Uninstalled IE 9 and went back to IE 8, no problems now? Hoave ypou solved anything? I am running Windows Vista Premium with service pack 2 installed. I have AVG software running too. This recently happened to me, also on Vista.

I run two computers the other Windows 10 off of the same router. Windows 10 computer was averaging between 60 and 70 Mbps on router 99 in one test direct to modem ; Windows Vista machine was running between roughly 7.

After mainly struggles, thought it was a router problem, but it was not! The answer in my case was that my anti-virus program, AVG, was the culprit. Ask a question. Quick access.

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Sign in to vote. Friday, October 6, PM. Finally cracked it after switching off IPV6 ; turns out culprit for me was McAfee Uninstalled and now she flies ;- Hope this helps others. Friday, March 16, AM. Hello Jigsaw-ols, I have found that this has been addressed a few days ago and should appear in the RTM product.

Thanks, Louis Shanks AppCompat. Friday, October 13, PM. Would you be able to send a code sample? Thursday, October 12, PM. Yes, netsh solved my problem. Friday, October 27, PM. Sunday, March 11, PM.

I have the same problem and am looking for a solution Wednesday, March 14, PM. After numerous hours on the phone with my manufacturer downloading patches, resetting the machine etc , we finally discovered that the problem was indeed McAfee. More specifically, it was the Phishing Filter.

I just had to go back into McAfee to disable the annoying messages that I wasn't fully protected. Hope this helps. Tuesday, March 20, PM. Have tried just about everything there is to try..

Anyone else? Same issues here - brand new computer running vista - can take up to a half hour to load some pages. Downloading anything right now isn't even an option.. Thursday, March 22, PM. Saturday, March 24, PM. Ramon Pfabeo. Sunday, March 25, PM. Both connections give the same slow speeds! Wednesday, March 28, PM. Chris Donne wrote: I can confirm that turning the McAffee phishing filter cured it for me where all the other fixes failed.

Sunday, April 1, AM. Guys I love you all. Advised my girlfreind to buy her new laptop from Dell. She had an old compaq laptop and this was running faster on the net than this shiney new Dell. Dell ship McAfee crappy security centre as standard so I did as you advised and disabled Phishing filter.

Wow, sorted it out straight away. Me thinks I'm in store for good head tonight ;- Thanks guys. Sunday, April 1, PM. Is anyone using AOL? I have the same slow problem but it doesnt seem to be anything to do with phishing filers and i dont have Mcafee.

If other people are fixing the problem under vista the Mafee prob then it musent be vista. It seems to only be slow on peer to peer and youtube for me. Thursday, April 5, PM. I have the same question 6. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Diana D's post on March 9, Thanks for the replies! I tried all of the above already but yesterday I found two culprits.

After completely disabling the entire online backup feature I did another speed test through my ISP and got I'm happy again! This lists potential problems like low disk space and suggests fixes. Autoruns is a zip file, which you'll need to extract before you can run it. Open it in Vista and extract all the files. Current page: Page 1. North America. Page 1 of 2: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2. Audio player loading…. See more Operating systems news. AWS went down hard, yet again - here's what happened.

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