Stavros

After years of a shit computer on windows 98 that I was perfectly happy with (never play games n shit), I now got a flashy top of the range thingy and ive jus got it working.

I dunno the spec off the top of my head, Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P something something blah blah.

Anyhow, internet seems pretty dead slow, and just in general it seems to be (maybe its jus me, but internet DEFFO is).

Any ideas?

TIFF

Is it bought from a shop Steve???

As they load the fuckers up with shit ........ Get it formatted to fuck all, then reinstall what YOU want on it......Then superfast browsing

Stavros

Nah, got it through some computers through work thing, so was mega cheap, only reason i got it.

Nowt seems to be installed barring Windows XP, stuff like Nortons etc was on there as a Setup program, but not installed, so dont think thats an issue.

And the internet i installed off the Blueyonder CD like I did on the old computer, but it deffo aint downloading at same speeds it did before

Downloading at about 15kb/sec it seems

89xr2

Norton slows it down like a cunt from my experience..

vroooom ptssssh

Steve, got probably more or less the same deal/pc:

(Fujitsu siemens
Intel pentium 4 processor 640 with HT technology
(2mb L2 cache, 3.2GHz. 800MHz FSB)
1024MB DDR RAM
250 GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
DVD-ROM drive (16x)
Multi Format dual layer DVD RW drive
11-in-1 Card reader
256MB/0MB ATi Radeon X700SE VIVO DVI graphics card
TV-Out/ DVI - Compostie cable and VIVO adapter unit
10/100 LAN Network interface
Wireless LAN module 802.11g
6x fast USB 2.0 ports (2front)
firewire IEEE 1394 port
19" SCALEO TFT flat panel display)

. . its been spot on, fast as fook, i'd prob guess it's your internet maybe someone d.loading porn on your street and using up all the bandwidth

SS1

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Stavros

you never stated what op system you are using now

that would help for a start ..

what rams it got .. and what hdrive is running

this all helps

you can disable norton via the toolbar right click on the icon

i have to disable norton worm to play battlefield 2

all the options are there

Stavros

XR2- Disabled Norton, no effect

Vroom- Spot on, thats exactly what ive got i think. Dont know whats up with it tho. Should be silly quick, but at mo its wank, just at downloading stuff tho, so gotta be connection probs.

Avid-fan/Akito-man- Whats with the rolleyes n other sarcy stuff you nobend? Im not some computer geek, if I knew the answer I wouldnt be asking. And its XP by the way...

SS1

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www.kbps.co.uk

try it are you on cable or adsl

DanRSturbo

Nuff said

I've got a fujitsu siemans shitbox machine as my work computer. P4 peice of shit until I got hold of it

Stavros

Oh right, so it being that, whatever that is, will magicly make my internet slow, slower than on an ancient old PC i had before. Riight.

The quality of help is is fantastic, and they say PF is going downhill


ALSO, is there any way of transferring files from my old HD to this PC without having to take the casing of the new one apart and manually installing the HDs? Some kind of cable maybe?
(dont mind removing the HDs from the old one, jus dont really want to take new one to bits)

DanRSturbo

Is it a usb modem you have with telewest ? Or a cable modem ?

Either way, this new machine should be much superior to your old machine. If not for the fact that there are probably pretty cheap componants inside it.

If you've still got your old machine, it is possible to network that with the new machine and transfer your files over. This however, will be a mission I'm afraid. Networking a Windows 98 machine together with a Windows XP will give an immense headache to most "neville's"


Either way, wep pages loading, general run of the mill stuff should be much faster then it was before. Even if it is a shonky Pentium 4.

The machine I have is a P4 2.66ghz with 2gig or ram which I put in, a 256 meg graphic's card in it, and additional 80 gig hard drive for my mp3's on it. Made it considerably faster, seem's to run Max Payne, Command And Conquer Generals fine.

Stavros

USB Modem? Cable Modem?
Ahh hangon, the Modem says "Motorolla SB5100 SURF Board Cable Modem" on it, so guess its a cable modem...

Just did a three different Internet speed test thingys, all gave between 120 and 140 kb/sec. Thats shit isnt it?

Any ideas?

Ish

Steve, what connection are you supposed to have with Blueyonder?

Your results are showing speeds for a 1mb connection

Stavros

Im sure its faster than that, thought it was 2meg.

But them tests showed that, and TBH i could live with that, but when i download stuff its never faster than like, 15kb/sec, even from big companies like MSN

DanRSturbo

Just download a trial game of www.microsoft.com m8, that will probably give you the best speed.

Hence this

Stavros

Ok...

I changed the cable from a shoddy looking phone wire lookalike thingy to a USB cable and now the speeds are coming in on the tests at 350kb/sec+

I tried the test as per what dan said, and it was doing 280kb/sec or so downloading Age of Empires or some shit.

So thats much more like it, wheter thats what its meant to be tho, i dunno

Thought the fone wire was meant to be better tho

(BTW, windows firewall is off, jus Nortons)

_DAN_

So lemme get this right,you were till now on 98?

BM08

Id uninstall norton mate, thats a total system resource hog! the best thing i did was removing norton and boy did i notice the difference when it was gone

DanRSturbo

I still run Norton 2003 antivirus and personal firewall with no problems in resources

BM08

obviously the older versions are ok then? the 2005 internet security package totally strangled my system

DanRSturbo

Oh 2006 and blackice had a real paddy with each other