Slow Internet Speeds

[ashley]

Hi

I just bought a new PC - spec below:

          CPU: Intel Core i7 3820 @ 4.5Ghz              
          CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Water Cooler                
          Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit                                    
          Motherboard: NEW! Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3                  
          RAM: 16GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (4x4GB)        
          Hard Drive: Corsair 60GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s                                          
          2nd hard drive: NEW! 500GB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s          
          Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA                  
          Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1,280MB      
          Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio                      
          PSU: NEW! 850W Corsair TX V2                

I have on had it 2 days and have noticed since attempting to watch a video on YouTube that the pc was lagging - constant pauses in the video and impossible to watch.

I have done several speed tests - I have a 100meg connection.  We have 2 other PC's in the house - both get around 75-95meg and the laptop gets 25-35meg.  My new pc is only getting 2-3meg.

Any ideas as to why this could be happening?

All I have put into the PC since getting it is Steam, Origin, BF3 and xFire

Many thanks

Ashley        

[ashley]

Quick update:

Just off to buy a Cat6 ethernet cable.

BIOS is F10
All motherboard drivers are latest ones

I will update shortly...............

[ashley]

£30 later and new Cat6 cable - done absolutely nothing

First time I have had a Gigabyte board (always used Asus) = Not Impressed!!!

Any suggestions anyone? 

[Dark Mantis]

I would suggest removing the LAN drivers totally before re-installing them directly from the website. It is important to remove all traces of the old ones first though.

[F5BJR]

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You can test if you have no Latency problem ( www.thesyscon.de )

For me with WINXP i have some 20 µs value and no big spikes

If you have test with old network driver , i have latency problem with many recent drivers

Pierre

[ashley]

Dark Mantis - I just did what u suggested and this has not changed the problem.

F5BJR - your link did not work

Next suggestion pls?

[Dark Mantis]

F5BJR - your link did not work

Next suggestion pls?

When you said Pierre's link didn't work di you mean that you have run it and you have no latency ?

[ashley]

Hi

The link did not work, but I got there in the end

Attached is a pic of what happened

[absic]

Hi there,

there are two LED's on the LAN port one shows the speed you are getting the other shows activity (page 20 of the User's manual), what colour is the connection/speed LED?

Were you having download speed issues prior to installing other software or was it working slowly with just the OS and drivers?

[ashley]

I have a solid red and a blinking orange

I had no issues with internet speed before getting the new pc

I have only installed BF3, Steam, Origin, Windows Live Mail, Adobe, Mozilla and Xfire - which I cant really see would do anything to my connection

I did notice when installing all of the above that the downloads were taking forever - it took 4 hours to get BF3 updated

However, I only really noticed a lag issue when trying to watch YouTube and then thats when I checked my speed

Its doing my head in!!!!!!

£1,500.00 for a whole load of stress - no thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Have you not installed a anti-virus or security suite to keep intruders out ? If not it is possible that you have and infection but with the red light on the LAN port I suspect it is something there going wrong. 

[ashley]

Am I correct in assuming you are telling me the motherboard is knackered?

Will do a virus scan now though!!

[ashley]

NO virus

[absic]

There is a newer BIOS available over at TweakTown, F11b.

Although it is a beta BIOS I would try it and see if it helps. You can download it from here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html

[Dark Mantis]

Yes absic. It's certainly worth a try.