Two computers, one broadband, ones slow but the others okay!

[jazz-uk]

Hi

I have Sky Broadband (okay, stop laughing) and have a Pentium PC connected via a cable and a Pentium Laptop via wireless. Broadband works fine on the laptop but unbelievably slow when using the PC.

PC is slow even when laptop is switched off. Any suggestions?

Jas

 

[Diyisfun]

What spec is the PC, obviously it must be lower than the laptop

 

[jazz-uk]

The PC is an Advent 3217 with;

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.06 GHz (Hyperthreading)
512 MB DDR RAM - PC2700

The laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T42 with;

Intel Pentium M 1.70 Ghz
2GB of RAM

 

[Igorian]

Could be many things.

Have you run a speed test using any of the various sites that can be googled (Speedtest.net) for example. Comparing results from both machines might provide useful information.

Try a different patch lead to connect the desktop

Try using a different port on the router/switch.

Perform general housekeeping on both machines and check for any virus/spyware issues

Update the drivers on the wired NIC

Try pinging the router and external sites from both machines and record the results.

Power cycle the router. Triy a factory reset and set it up again.

Reset NIC to default settings.

Try a different NIC if possible.

Try a different router if possible.

To list a few.

 

[Deluks]

Virus or malware slowing browsing down?

Inadvertently using neighbours WiFi connection, which happens to be faster?

 

[tim west]

Sky have been running a DLM programme to stabilise connections it lowers the speed automatically till it gets a stable connection, power cycling or rebooting the router rather than just leaving it be can cause this management software to slow your connection more and more thinking there's a problem with the line,if no further rebooting happens for at least 10 days, sometimes more the line speed will gradually increase until about a meg of the original speed automatically, in some cases this increase doesnt occur and the speed stays slow indefinitely, a call to sky to have it manually reset will need to be done.

More info here

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/tutorials/5848.html

 

[marshman]

The PC is an Advent 3217 with;

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.06 GHz (Hyperthreading)
512 MB DDR RAM - PC2700

I think you should add another 512mb as 512mb is not enough.

 

[Expertboy]

The PC is an Advent 3217 with;

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.06 GHz (Hyperthreading)
512 MB DDR RAM - PC2700

The laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T42 with;

Intel Pentium M 1.70 Ghz
2GB of RAM

look at the specs, you just answered your own question.

 

[Igorian]

look at the specs, you just answered your own question.

Not necessarily. I have lesser spec machines that run just fine.

 

[Jonsey123]

The spec of the PC is significantly better than the minimum requirement to run a 100mb connection. Dont worry about that being the cause.

1. Do a sweep in safe mode using virus scanner, adaware and spybot until clean.

2. Run TCP Optimizer from speedguide.net if you are still having an issue, although i doubt you will be. You may have a TCP setting issue.

Good luck!

 

[mattylad]

also check on how much free space you have on your desktop's hard drive.
If its less than a few hundred MB then that will be why its slow too.

(my son does this all the time, fills his HDD & wonders why the pc wont work )