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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Originally Posted by Ragunboneman
Yes, I also run the 4.2.2 version and it works perfectly.  |
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?