Internet Speed Bogs
– XP SP2 (updated with everything)
– Netgear Web Safe Router Gateway RP614 (latest drivers)
*Custom build PC:
– Hitachi / 400GB / 7200 / 8MB / SATA-150 / OEM
– 2nd drive is a 100G.
– Kingston 1024MB PC4200 533Mhz DDR2 Memory
– Pentium 4 660 series (64-bit) 3.60GHz with Hyper-Threading Technology, 800MHz Front Side Bus and 2MB L2 Cache.
– ECS PF21 Extreme Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / PCI Express / Audio / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Dual Gigabit LAN / WLAN USB Adapter / SATA / RAID
All of the sudden my PC has been at a crawl and so has the Internet. Timewarner says everything checks out on their side. I do many speed tests on websites and it is confirmed I have the upo/download speeds I get form them. Yet, my internet is slow. This computer has been fine for months until recently. It is defragged as much as it can be. Registry is cleaned form a couple of different programs. No viruses, spyware, etc. Nothing running in the background that will take up processor time. Currently my CPU usage is 2% and my network utilization on the GIG card is 0.09%. I have the swap file, which is over a GIG in size, on the slave drive, which also serves as a backup. Nothing is run from it.
Any tweaks I have done have not been much help. Even with the PC connected directly into the cable modem, the internet seems sluggish.
Any ideas I may not have tried for either fixing my net speed or PC speed (programs and even accessing Windows Explorer are getting slower).
I am at a lost.
Nothing bad is running. Not a lot is running. Even trying to use FreeRAM XP Pro. System is cleaned of temp files and such. IE and FF are as updated as they can get right now.
Please let me know if you have any ideas? Thanks. I really want to figure out this internet connection problem.
Sgt! Got any good tips for me on this one?
