XP Internet Connection Sharing - Host is slow!

[Andrew]

Hi,

I have a home network with two PCs both running WinXP. I have a ADSL
internet connection, and use ICS to share that on the second machine.

The strange thing is that the client gets quite good download / upload
rates, whereas the host is slower than dial-up!

I tried all the MS help, and the only suggestion I could find was to
ensure that the internet option for the host should be set to "Never
dial a connection" - I did that, but it didn't help. COuld there be
some other hang-over from the dial-up connection I used to have?



OT: Would be nice if google let us obfuscate our gmail e-mail a/c in
the messages.... Let the spam-mail begin

 

[Keith]

Hi,

I have a home network with two PCs both running WinXP. I have a ADSL
internet connection, and use ICS to share that on the second machine.

The strange thing is that the client gets quite good download / upload
rates, whereas the host is slower than dial-up!

I tried all the MS help, and the only suggestion I could find was to
ensure that the internet option for the host should be set to "Never
dial a connection" - I did that, but it didn't help. COuld there be
some other hang-over from the dial-up connection I used to have?



OT: Would be nice if google let us obfuscate our gmail e-mail a/c in
the messages.... Let the spam-mail begin

I have the same setup and experienced a similar problem. It was caused by
Norton Internet Security and was cured by switching to Zonealarm. If this
is your problem and you switch to Zonealarm it has to be the paid for
Zonealarm Pro to use ICS and there are some instructions for setting up ICS.
If you need them, email me at keith.willcocksATbtinternet.com and I will
send them in a Word document. That is assuming that NIS is the problem in
the first place. I had NIS 2002 and, allegedly, Symantec sent the wrong
update down and screwed it, although they have never confirmed that it
happened.

 

[Andrew]

Thanks for the suggestion.

No - I don't think that is the case, as I am actually not using a
firewall at the moment (used to use zonealarm, but, as you point out,
it needs ZoneAlarm Pro to work with ICS).

I wonder if it would be the antivirus I use, or something similar? I
have had other problems with that (athough they are related to the
autoupdate not functioning properly). Maybe I'll shut-down each of
these services in order to see which one is causing the problem!

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

 

[Andrew]

Thanks - I tried that, but it didn't make much difference. Only thing
of note is that I'm losing 47% of packets sent, and pings are 300-450
ms (so much for DSL!)

From the networked PCs, the ping are around the same, but I'm not

losing any packets.

Anyone offer any thoughts on how to find the packets! Tried dropping
the MTU, but didn't make much difference....