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  #16  
Old December 2nd 18, 09:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 07:22:16 -0500, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

Have you tried to reset your router. I have ATT uverse and periodically
it bogs down and the router must be reset. When it needs to be reset
one of the symptoms is their is no broadband connection


I don't know how often "periodically" is, but about the second time it
happens, I'd be shopping for a new router so that I could give ATT back
their POS.

I had Uverse for about a year, back in 2013, and like with all new ISPs,
I used their equipment for the first month, then I replaced their low
end crap with my own gear.

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Old December 3rd 18, 01:07 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Jason wrote:

Recently, and I don't know if this is the fault of Windows or
of changes that Spectrum may have made, web surfing has slowed down. I
can watch the process in the corner of the screen when I click a link
and the steps that used to happen instantly take several seconds or
stall completely partway through. My system has also grown cranky
connecting to the net in the first place when the system boots.
Sometimes I have to disable and re-enable WiFi several times to get past
the "connected but no internet" problem. For fun(?), I tried disabling
IPv6 in network properties for the WiFi adapter. This has gone a good
way towards restoring performance. So, my questions a is IPV6
generally necessary and could disabling it have caused the performance
improvement I'm seeing or is that just a coincidence?


Have you yet tried tried temporarily disabling your anti-virus (and
other security) software and then test networking performance?

Have you enabled monitoring in some software and left it logging? I did
that once or twice with SysInternals' Process Monitor. Filtering only
changes what you see but everything still gets logged (and why you can
change the filters to see other events). As the log file got huge, it
was slowing the data bus with all the events getting appended to the
log.

Have you tried rebooting Windows into its safe mode w/networking and
test without loading all the startup programs?

Did you change the router/modem to use something /other/ than the
default login credentials and also use a strong password? If you have
not tweaked your router/modem, see what happens when you reset it. If
you have a separate router, AP, or other networking components between
the computer and the cable modem, run a CAT5/6 Ethernet cable directly
from the computer to the cable modem and retest performance.

From your description, it appears you are using wi-fi from computer to
the cable modem. See what happens when you use a wired connection
between computer and modem. Also, since you are using Windows 10, and
because Microsoft wants to push updates when they become available to
use their customers as involuntary unpaid beta testers, they might've
pushed a driver update but one that doesn't match your particular wi-fi
hardware but instead a family of products or for the wrong version of
the hardware. Make sure Windows 10 is configured to NOT push hardware
updates. If the wired connections works okay, check if using a driver
from the OEM or hardware maker specifically for the hardware that YOU
have gets wi-fi speed back to normal.

I don't know if Spectrum offers their own network speed test tool. If
not, you could use Speedtest.net. Then call Spectrum to get your cable
modem re-provisioned. I've once experienced myself and heard of several
others where the ISP re-provisioned their cable modem but pushed the
wrong attributes giving me and other a lower speed tier. They've also
screwed the TV decoder set-top box that gave me a lower service tier, so
I had to call them to check what plan to which I was subscribe and make
sure they re-provisioned the set-top box to honor for what I was paying.

Have you gone into the cable modem's diagnostics or tools to check what
all is connected to the modem? Maybe you've got a host that is choking
on download a huge amount of traffic, or there's a host connected to
your modem via wi-fi that you don't know about and haven't authorized.
  #22  
Old December 3rd 18, 04:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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I can't retrieve the original post...but someone suggested
running Berkely's Netalyzr. I did. All the tests passed
but one and I don't know what to make of the result:


DNS lookups of popular domains (?): Warning
?

One popular name has a significant anomaly. The ownership
suggested by the reverse name lookup does not match our
understanding of the original name. This could be caused
by an error somewhere in the domain information,
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it could be that your ISP's DNS Server is acting as a DNS
"Man-in-the-Middle".

We attempted to download HTTP content from the IP
addresses that your ISP's DNS server returned to you for
these names. Where the download succeeded, you can click
on the IP address in the table below to download a
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Note! The session content is potentially harmful to your
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examining it.
Name IP Address Reverse Name/SOA
mail.live.com 204.79.197.212 a-0010.a-
msedge.net
  #23  
Old December 3rd 18, 06:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Jason wrote in news:MPG.366e68e5f0d084da9896d9
@news.eternal-september.org:

I can't retrieve the original post...but someone suggested
running Berkely's Netalyzr. I did. All the tests passed
but one and I don't know what to make of the result:


Just because it sounded interesting I tried using Berkely's Netalyzer.
Unfortunately, I am using Firefox 64 bit, and Java is not available.
  #24  
Old December 3rd 18, 08:19 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Tim wrote:
Jason wrote in news:MPG.366e68e5f0d084da9896d9
@news.eternal-september.org:

I can't retrieve the original post...but someone suggested
running Berkely's Netalyzr. I did. All the tests passed
but one and I don't know what to make of the result:


Just because it sounded interesting I tried using Berkely's Netalyzer.
Unfortunately, I am using Firefox 64 bit, and Java is not available.


You could install it, run the test, and uninstall it.

They have x64 versions.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/j...s-2133155.html

Windows x64 71.16 MB jre-8u191-windows-x64.exe

Then, off you go for a test.

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html

HTH,
Paul
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Old December 3rd 18, 08:28 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Paul wrote:
Tim wrote:
Jason wrote in news:MPG.366e68e5f0d084da9896d9
@news.eternal-september.org:

I can't retrieve the original post...but someone suggested running
Berkely's Netalyzr. I did. All the tests passed but one and I don't
know what to make of the result:


Just because it sounded interesting I tried using Berkely's Netalyzer.
Unfortunately, I am using Firefox 64 bit, and Java is not available.


You could install it, run the test, and uninstall it.

They have x64 versions.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/j...s-2133155.html


Windows x64 71.16 MB jre-8u191-windows-x64.exe

Then, off you go for a test.

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html

HTH,
Paul


One other possible problem, is the Java plugin needs
a Firefox like 52ESR to run. It's possible the Java
plugin doesn't run on the newer browsers.

Paul
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Old December 3rd 18, 11:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote in news
Tim wrote:
Jason wrote in news:MPG.366e68e5f0d084da9896d9
@news.eternal-september.org:

I can't retrieve the original post...but someone suggested
running Berkely's Netalyzr. I did. All the tests passed
but one and I don't know what to make of the result:


Just because it sounded interesting I tried using Berkely's
Netalyzer. Unfortunately, I am using Firefox 64 bit, and Java is not
available.


You could install it, run the test, and uninstall it.

They have x64 versions.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/j...jre8-downloads
-2133155.html

Windows x64 71.16 MB jre-8u191-windows-x64.exe

Then, off you go for a test.

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html

HTH,
Paul

I have both the 32bit and 64bit versions of Java installed. It is just
that Firefox 64bit will not use/allow Java. Neither does Chrome, for that
matter. At that point I decided that just using the app on my tablet was
good enough to see how well it works.
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Old December 3rd 18, 04:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , Ken Blake
wrote:


My router is on all of the time, even when we are a way for several
days. To me turning it off would be like putting a sign in the window,
there is no one home so you can take what ever you like.


How would anyone know your router is on? Yes, it's easy to see what
routers in the neighborhood are on, but how would a stranger identify
one of them as yours? If I look at the list of running routers here, I
can identify a couple, but I can't tell whose most of them are. And if
someone drove down the street and recognized a router name, he
wouldn't necessarily know what address it was in.


houses are generally far enough apart that it's easy to tell which one
a given wifi network belongs. even easier, some people use their name
or address or other identifying information as an ssid name.
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Old December 3rd 18, 05:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 12/3/2018 8:22 AM, Ken Blake wrote:

How would anyone know your router is on? Yes, it's easy to see what
routers in the neighborhood are on, but how would a stranger identify
one of them as yours?


My neighbor's names are George and Betty. One of their SSID names is
"George's Guest Network" and the other is "Betty's WiFi Network". So ID
is relatively easy in their case. BTW George's SSID is UNLOCKED and has
come in very handy at times, like when my service goes down.

If I look at the list of running routers here, I can identify a
couple, but I can't tell whose most of them are.


But most as you say are unidentifiable. One SSID in my neighborhood
is quite creative. It's "FBI Van #3"... :-)

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Old December 3rd 18, 06:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , 123456789
wrote:


How would anyone know your router is on? Yes, it's easy to see what
routers in the neighborhood are on, but how would a stranger identify
one of them as yours?


My neighbor's names are George and Betty. One of their SSID names is
"George's Guest Network" and the other is "Betty's WiFi Network". So ID
is relatively easy in their case. BTW George's SSID is UNLOCKED and has
come in very handy at times, like when my service goes down.


have you told him you use it?

If I look at the list of running routers here, I can identify a
couple, but I can't tell whose most of them are.


But most as you say are unidentifiable. One SSID in my neighborhood
is quite creative. It's "FBI Van #3"... :-)


it's very easy to pinpoint which house it is using a phone and a wifi
app, or use online tools, because it's almost certainly been mapped
already.
 




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