Windows 7 Slow Download Speeds?

had similar issues on a DS3 with win7 and latest vendor drivers etc for win 7. Try enabling congestion control and DCA on the adapter. Fixed my issue.

 

Are those torrents ? Could it be they are not uploading that fast ?

 

My thoughts exactly. You can not compare one dl to an other.

 

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Had exactly the same problem. When you install Windows 7 it sometimes resets the Network Card default in the BIOS. When you first run Windows XP + it updates the BIOS to show a 10/100MB Connection yet Windows 7 isn't compatible with some network cards fully so it is reset on first run to 1/10MB. I investigated and it seems a reinstallation of Windows 7 corrects the fault.

 

Re-install is maybe premature. Could check/change the network adapter properties

Control Panel > Network And Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings > Right Click "Local Area Connection" Properties > Configure > Advanced > Speed and Duplex Setting.

My guess is you prolly have ISP that is blocking your torrent protocol. Comcast was sued for bandwidth shaping, but that doesn't mean the still don't do it.

 

I got a credit note from Virgin Media for £30 after they capped me twice at 25kb/s for installing BitTorrent....

 

My ISP has been shaping for a few years now. ED2K is targeted worse, bit torrent has been not effected as much.

 

Just use uTorrent + Outbound traffic encryption

 

i have a 50/7 connection and get everything out of it on win7

 

a solution for slow Windows 7 download speeds

I had installed earlier RC versions of Windows 7 on a couple of machines. I started to notice some very slow download speeds. I ran across this solution in another forum and it worked. Don't know what it does but internet speed improved dramatically.

Run following command from Admin-level command line prompt:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

 

Yeah it does work, but don't try setting it on high lol firefox crashed out on me like 5 times.

 

I dont think the problem is with win7 but the seeders/site or a bad isp.
Downloading latest nvidia drivers gives me 11MB/s, so my 100Mbit is working and win7 for sure is allright, gives me ~80MB/s on lan too my filserver.

 

Please make sure that slow download speed is the problem of the operating system or are some other factors involved? Windows 7 is a new launch and do you think that there could be such a bug that couldn't be fixed?

 

Speedtest and other bandwidth test is not always accurate. To be forsure you got to use Torrent with good seeding and Usenet to test out your maximum bandwidth speed.

 

Do you have a wireless connection or router in use ? and is that one protected so others cant download from it ?

 

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