Visit your Vista systems Network Connections and disable dialup and enable a
Local Area Connection.
Sorry, it's not Vista. It's your settings.
"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:O22D3P35HHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Sorry you are having problems. Just as a comparison, my results on that
> bandwidth measurement is 5230.8 Kbps. I am running Vista Home Premium
> with IE7 and Earthlink/Comcast cable modem.
>
> "Tigger" <Tigger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED7B18A7-CA20-4285-A1D5-39D5B9097ADD@microsoft.com...
>> Like many people I've been stunned by how slow my Vista machine is. I
>> have an
>> emachines 6805 running Windows XP Home, talking to my wireless Dlink
>> router
>> DI-604. When I go to the CNET Bandwidth measurement page, I see about
>> 2000
>> kbps for my Windows XP machine (3 years old, Opteron processor in that
>> thing).
>>
>> The link for the bandwidth tester is
>> http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/
>>
>> I have Comcast cable by the way.
>>
>> So I try the same thing with my brand-new Lenovo R61 Core 2 Duo 4MB
>> cache, 2
>> GB ram machine... and I get 56.8 kbps!! That's like a dial-up modem. This
>> is
>> PATHETIC! Microsoft you really screwed up. If this isn't fixed in a jiffy
>> this will be my last Windows machine for personal use! I have Windows
>> Vista
>> Basic, and almost everything else is out of the box.
>>
>> I tried futzing around with "netsh interface tcp" with advice found using
>> Google searches, setting auto-tuning to "disabled" and to
>> "highlyrestricted"... no help there. I tried uninstalling Norton/Semantec
>> crapola that came with the machine, and turning off the phishing
>> filter... no
>> help there. But -- and this is the real important point -- ordinary
>> people
>> should NOT have to futz around like this with your flagship Microsoft
>> product. You are BEGGING the world to stop buying your software. I know
>> that's how I feel, really really angry that I've already wasted half a
>> day
>> tweaking a new computer that is basically worthless on arrival.
>