Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

I got fed up with ZA and now just use windows firewall along with my router.

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

Windows firewall only checks incoming data just like a router, if you want to stop programs calling home you have to have a decent firewall running on the computer.

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

You could use Comodo personal firewall :)

Link

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

I also got fed up with ZoneAlarm reducing my speed to around 2.3Mbps. Uninstalled it and now get around 3.81Mbps. :)

I now use the Windows firewall, which offers pretty good security and passed all the 'Sheilds Up' tests. Just run Adaware and/or SpyBot search&destroy once a week to be safe.

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

my speed seems to be stuck at 1mb, despite having upgraded to 2mb (which should now be 4mb) months ago.

i live in the coventry area

Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:23:48 UTC

1st 512K took 4250 ms = 120.5 KB/sec, approx 993 Kbps, 0.97 Mbps
2nd 512K took 4343 ms = 117.9 KB/sec, approx 971 Kbps, 0.95 Mbps
3rd 512K took 4344 ms = 117.9 KB/sec, approx 971 Kbps, 0.95 Mbps
4th 512K took 4344 ms = 117.9 KB/sec, approx 971 Kbps, 0.95 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 977 Kbps, 0.96 Mbps

my speed test results

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

Ok - got rid of sun belt one, and put 4.2.2 on - but 'fraid its the same for me, limited to 0.8 !

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

I can't even get a speed test result!

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

Just to report back my experience on performing a clean uninstall of Zone Alarm. Using the Speed Test on here the results appeared to be even worse than they were with ZA installed but my most accurate measure of speed has consistently been to use NewsPro and download from usenet newsgroups and results are as follows:

2Meg connection: c. 240 KB/s
4Meg with ZA: c. 300 KB/s
4Meg without ZA: c. 490 KB/s

So, conclusions for me at least are that the speed test is unreliable and that completely removing Zone Alarm has fixed the bandwidth throttling problem. A big thank-you to all those that pointed it out on here.

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Having uninstalled ZA and got rid of the apparent speed throttling I then installed Kerio 4.2.2. Although nntp was unaffacted (getting 490KB/s) downloading via HTTP was affected even worse than using ZA. The only advantage with Kerio is you can shut it down and then get decent speeds again. Can anyone recommend a personal firewall that does NOT throttle http download speeds?

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

No offence but your stupid then, how do you no you dont have a virus or a torjan if you dont have anything to check for them? Fair enough you dont need a firewall if you have a router as that makes a pritty nice one, but i would seriously concider installing some basic antivirus protection.

I use Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, Windows Defender and my linksys router... never had any problems with it affecting my internet or slowing down my computers, Norton Antivirus is a diffrent matter though ;)

Also like your website, i used it last july to setup my Abyss Webserver :D

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

I think the rule of thumb is to have atleast the following installed.

1. A decent upto date Antivirus.

2. A software firewall (not Windows Firewall as this doesn't stop outgoing traffic phoning home).

3. Some spyware/adaware software like Windows Defender.

4. If the budget allows a hardware firewall as well as a software firewall installed.

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

When i was on 2 meg, downloads were quick and web sites came up really quick, then they upgraded me about 3 weeks ago to 4 meg , it was great for about a week then it all started going down hill.

Web Sites are now slow to load, some sites you can download fast from, but the majority are about 4kb/s, im not happy, hope they can sort this out soon or im going to blow a nut! :o: BH15 AREA

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

have you got some urls of these 4kb/s sites, perhaps some people will try them to see if they are also getting slow downloads or perhaps these sites are slow due to restricting their upload speeds?.

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

I noticed they are planning another round of updates, including my area (Stafford), for next week. So fingers crossed;)

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

Since getting my 4MB uplift speeds have deteriorated and I hardly ever get anything approaching that speed now. Typically it is about 2.5MB (or under). Is this a common phenomenon, and if so what are people doing about it?

Re: Speed Increases 1st June - 2meg to 4meg
 

http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/Info.aspx?dlId=691 any of the far cry patches is one