my win2k PC and win98SE PC share a cable modem and in win9x i get twice the download speed as i do in win2k. my road runner website has a 5mb file to download to test your download speed.

win98 170/kb 27sec
win2k 80/kb 54/sec

they both had the same NIC a realtek 8029 PCI 10mb card but i put a 3com 100mb PCI card and still no improvement. anyone know how to fix it or anyone have the same situation?

I also upgraded my win9x box to win ME beta3 which i downloaded from MSDN. still downloads faster then win2k. BUT dosent win2k and winME use the same TCP/IP stack? SO WTF???

Try using this website for tests (very consistent): http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest.asp

Have you installed the cable modem patch for Win2k? You can get it at: http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_reg_win2k.shtml

The patch did the trick for me and now Win2k is faster than Win98 by a long way! Hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by ewaite (edited 19 April 2000).]

Thanks for the reg file link. I will let you know if it works. I had tried that website speed test before and it too tells me that win9x is faster then win2k. Hopefully this tweak will fix it.

man i owe you big time! Thanks alot it fixed it. amazing grace I have been saved. my download speed is now up around 200kb/sec. if you have ICQ 18995872 or email pesopeck@netscape.net