Bandwidth limited to 1.5 megabits

[Guest]

I have windows xp home and I think windows is limiting my bandwidth. About a
month ago i started getting slow internet speeds. When i do a speed test i
get almost exacly 1.5 megabits, never more. I boot up safe mode and it still
does it. I ran a bunch of spyware removers and that didn't work. I boot up
another operating system on this computer and i get over 3 megabits, so it is
not hardware. So is there some setting in windows that limits bandwidth,
because it still does it in safe mode so i don't think it could be any
program.

 

[Guest]

are you running a software FW? (specifically the one that comes with SP2)

 

[Bob I]

USB connection can be throttled.

 

[Richard Urban]

You are dual booting. One operating system may be infected with scum ware,
the other is not. Your XP system may even be acting as a zombie, sending out
hundreds of thousands of spam messages, without you even knowing it. You can
imagine what this can do to your bandwidth!

Don't think it can't happen. I cleansed a system last month where just this
was occurring.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Gary Davis]

If you are running on a T1 then that is normal. What type of connection do
you have to the internet?

 

[Guest]

I have a 4 megabit connection, which is what i get on this computer when i
boot a different copy of windows (Ijust connected my other hard drive
temporarily). But when i boot my main one i only get 1.5. I ran a bunch of
spyware removers and got rid of all that. Also, nothing is connecting to the
internet when i run the test on my main OS(The one that only gets 1.5) So its
not sending out a crapload of emails. So if i can get 4 megabits with the
other OS, it's nothing dealing with hardware. And im pretty sure that
spyware isn't doing it cuz i ran a lot of differnt programs. Ad-aware, spy
sweeper, spybot S&D, Xoftspy, pest patrol, and system mechanic 5.

 

[SlowJet]

If the OS's are getting different IP's from the ISP,
the ISP could be defaulting your XP to the normal home user limit of 1.5
where as your other 4 Mbs IP is set up special.
Release the IP's on both OS's without connecting, then boot into XP.

Worth a try. Stranger things have happened.

SJ