Thanks to Daave and Jose.
I have always Disabled QoS RSVP, never set it to Manual. I have done this
several times. Then, next day OR maybe even a couple of weeks later, QoS is
back to running again. I am the only account on this PC and the only user.
I know I haven't set QoS to Automatic or Manual.
This all goes back to the problem in my initial post. If, for example,I
send an email with a 1mb attachment, it may transmit very slowly. Task
Manager Network utilization shows roughly 0.04% with Bytes per Interval of
21,000, then 600, then 240, back to 21k and repeated over and over. Often
these transmissions fail and I have to start over again. When working OK,
Task Manager shows Network utilization at about 0.45% with Bytes per Interval
of, say, 131,000, 120,000 than back to 131k and so forth. Download time for
the same file (when I send to myself) is nearly twice as fast, as I expect.
This "slow" versus "fast" is seemingly random, that is, it runs fast every
time for a while, then for some reason, slow every time until I do something.
If sending is slow, I look at QoS RSVP. If running, I again Disable it,
then email is sent quite fast again. But, the problem always returns. I
have no idea why.
I do not track web surfing since there are so many variables. What's being
searched, how many pages, what is their server doing, etc.?
More than a year ago, I downloaded DrTCP021 as recommended on this forum. I
ran it using the settings suggested. My understanding is that all it does is
set some register entries. If email is again very slow, the problem may be
fixed temporarily by running DrTCP021 and saving the settings even thoughI
make NO changes. I don't know why this works either. (Does anyone know what
register entries are set by this program -- I would like to be able to
confirm the values in the registry.)
So, the bottom line is that sending an email with an attachment of more than
several K may be very slow, then I "fix" the problem by disabling QoS or
running DrTCP without changing anything and voila!, it runs fast again --
until something happens and it runs slow again. I have been over a year
trying to figure out what "something" is.
This has been checked with our local ISP/carrier and with a local PC
technician. No answers or solutions even though I know they have tried..
This is not malware as the PC has been checked with Norton (ughh??) and
Spy-Bot as well as the PC technician with a different virus program.
I have a Dell 4700 with XP. The NIC card is an Intel Pro/100 VE using an
Ethernet cable. There are no connected PC's or other equipment and no
wireless.
This one has me, our ISP and local technician really stumped. Many thanks
to anyone who has any ideas.
What are you using for your email client?
What is DrTCP021 supposed to do and how do you know if you "need" it?
I read it "does some things to make it faster maybe" and those posts
were really old and I am not trying some executable thing that might
work maybe. Someplace else said it was all BS.
Did that put anything in your configuration/startup that you can see?
If you disable the service and reboot, you should not even be able to
start it manually until you enable it or set it to manual again - is
that not what you see?
If QoS is disabled and you send your email attachment does it start
running? When it starts, it puts an event in the Event Log.
You should troubleshoot your system when it is broken of course. If
you suspect upload/download, then do some tests.
www.speedtest.net (Comcast likes this one - beware of ads)
http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest/
See what your speeds are. Find an intelligent person from your ISP
(this may take several calls) and ask them what they advertise the
upload/download speeds are supposed to be for the type of service you
are paying for and how can you test it right now with them on the
phone.
Do not volunteer the results of your own testing or any unnecessary
details.
Tell them you think your stuff takes too long and ask them how you can
confirm and test your upload/download speeds are okay using whatever
methods or WWW sites they suggest. Just - how do I test it to be
sure I am getting what I pay for. You may be getting better than what
they advertise or you may have to call them on it.
If you run the test they suggest and it sucks, get them to (make them)
help you fix it or explain it. If it is too slow, don't accept any of
that "unusually heavy traffic" BS. Comcast came out to my friends
house and replaced everything from the pole in the street to his
laptop when they could not explain only 25% of their advertised
speed. They got it going. I was ROTFLMAO and I don't use acronyms
very much.
QoS doesn't seem to make any difference on my system with those tests,
but I am leaving it disabled and I can't remember when I did decided
to turn it off.