User changed - now internet is sloooow

[Ken Bessler]

A couple of days ago my pc suddenly changed users
to "administratior" from "ken bessler", also an admin
account. I can no longer access my account - as a
matter of fact, in the users section of task manager,
only the "administratior" account is shown.

I managed to copy all my settings from the c drive's
documents and settings folder all right so I'm
surviving on the new account but my internet speed
is dog slow - 14,400 baud slow (I'm on a cable
modem).

I seem to remember a program which tweaks the
registry to optomize it for cable but I can't find it
or even remember if that was for win 98 and not
xp pro....

Help?

Ken

 

[purplehaz]

Do a system restore back to a day before your account dissapeared and
everything should come back as it was.

 

[Ken Bessler]

Do a system restore back to a day before your account dissapeared and
everything should come back as it was.

I tried that - wen't back 1,2 then 3 days - no help.

Ken

 

[purplehaz]

I tried that - wen't back 1,2 then 3 days - no help.

Try this to fix speed:
http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/autofix.asp?file=IntSpeed.hta

 

[Ken Bessler]

Try this to fix speed:
http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/autofix.asp?file=IntSpeed.hta

Thanks for the link - I tried it and it helped a little.
I'm up to 56k speed now.

Ken

 

[Ken Bessler]

Thanks for the link - I tried it and it helped a little.
I'm up to 56k speed now.

Ken

Fixed! Ha! Found the problem - I run KaZaA Lite K++
and when the account switched over, I lost all my user
settings in that program, specifically how many uploads
at one time were allowed (I usually set this to 1).

Opened KaZaA only to find 2 dozen uploads proceeding,
eating up all my bandwidth! Changed it to 1 and instanly
saw my speed go from 40-50 kbits/sec to nearly 1000.

I then ran a ping on yahoo.com - I was getting 1500ms,
now getting <50 ms average.

Thanks to purplehaz for helping me out!

Ken

 

[purplehaz]

Fixed! Ha! Found the problem - I run KaZaA Lite K++
and when the account switched over, I lost all my user
settings in that program, specifically how many uploads
at one time were allowed (I usually set this to 1).

Opened KaZaA only to find 2 dozen uploads proceeding,
eating up all my bandwidth! Changed it to 1 and instanly
saw my speed go from 40-50 kbits/sec to nearly 1000.

I then ran a ping on yahoo.com - I was getting 1500ms,
now getting <50 ms average.

Thanks to purplehaz for helping me out!

You're welcome. Be careful with that kazaa network, many virus and exploits
going around it.

 

[Ken Bessler]

You're welcome. Be careful with that kazaa network,
many virus and exploits
going around it.

Yea - it's getting pretty bad - I have to preview every
video clip to see if it's correct and I have to use a hex
editor on the software files to see if they are real data
not just @@@@@@ and such.

I learned the hard way - spent nearly a week d/l ing
a 3 cd game only to burn it unto cd's to find it was
bogus. Finally gave up and just bought the game on
eBay.. lol

Ken

 

[purplehaz]

Yea - it's getting pretty bad - I have to preview every
video clip to see if it's correct and I have to use a hex
editor on the software files to see if they are real data
not just @@@@@@ and such.

I learned the hard way - spent nearly a week d/l ing
a 3 cd game only to burn it unto cd's to find it was
bogus. Finally gave up and just bought the game on
eBay.. lol

Try WinMX. I like it better. www.winmx.com

 

[Ken Bessler]

Try WinMX. I like it better. www.winmx.com

Nice! Have you tried Overnet? I find files there
that are not on KaZaA - like the movie 1941, for
example.

Ken

 

[purplehaz]

Nice! Have you tried Overnet? I find files there
that are not on KaZaA - like the movie 1941, for
example.

No, I never heard of it. I'll have to check it out, thanks.