r0cko 0 Posted April 19, 2000 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??? Share this post Link to post
ewaite 0 Posted April 19, 2000 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).] Share this post Link to post
r0cko 0 Posted April 19, 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. Share this post Link to post
r0cko 0 Posted April 19, 2000 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 Share this post Link to post
