Slow download speed

[pylotttt]

Gigabyte GA-880G-UD3H REV 1.4 MOTHERBOARD
WINDOWS 7 X64
NVIDIA GTX 460
AMD X6 1055T
Gskill 8GB RAM




I play online games at steampowered.com. When downloading maps for farcry 2 the desktop is very slow, often timing out(5-10 minutes). My laptop downloads immediately taking about 1 second to download the maps. I have compared settings and all look the same except the connection setting on the desktop shows 100mhz while the laptop shows 1ghz. The adapter setting for speed and duplex has been tried both at 1.0gbps and auto negotiate but no change.
Both have the same operating system and network drivers.
I tried downloading and re-installing the network drivers, no change.
I have swapped the same cable from the router at each computer and the problem does not change.
I have tried a D-Link 1ghz network card, no change.
I have tried turning off the virus checker software, no change.
Windows firewall is off.
I have removed and re-installed steam, no change.

Why am I having this problem?
What else can I check?
Has anybody else had this problem?

 

[MikeKF]

Are you downloading maps on both systems via the same method? Can you peform some LAN and internet performance tests (same type from each system) and post those results?

What connection setting on the desktop shows 100Mhz? Do you mean your desktop has a 100baseT card and your laptop has a 1000baseT card? If that is the case, there could be a bottleneck between your router and your desktop as opposed to between the router and your laptop. However that alone should not be the only reason why there is such a difference in performance.

 

[pylotttt]

Hi MikeKF, thanks for the reply. I got it fixed after 6 months of slow download speeds. I downloaded and ran Auslogics BoostSpeed 5. it has numerous tests and one is internet speed optimization. I don't know which parameter was causing the problem, but now both machines work the same.

 

[sandersonsmiuth]

nice information..