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can windows slow down speed

ok my speed tests show theres nothing wrong which are pretty good
but when it comes down to d/ling anything its limiting to 2-3mb ive been in contact with my isp they are trying their best infact they are tops
which are fast.co.uk
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 8096 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 7000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 6393 kbps

any idea im running windows7 i have even gone and got a new router
d-link dsl2740b

thanks
ade
 
I presume you have ruled out that the sites your visiting actually have enough bandwidth to go above 3Mbps ?

If sites are on shared hosting or limited transit contracts, it will be a shared resource. Regardless of ISP, this won't change IF the sites can't pump the data out to you quick enough.
 
i know they can its only been a couple of weeks that the speeds has dropped
i was more on about my speeds for d/l
at least they sorting it out more than aquiss did when i was with them
 
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at least they sorting it out more than aquiss did when i was with them
Then why are you here asking for help?

As your speedtester seems fine, and further help clearly is not wanted, I'll leave you and fast to figure it out.
 
Then why are you here asking for help?

As your speedtester seems fine, and further help clearly is not wanted, I'll leave you and fast to figure it out.

what is it for YOU to decide i dont want further help because you dont have proper support that dont give a damn if your paying for something u dont get
 
What are your router stats adeys?
 
there are allot of factors that dent speed like aquiss stated shareing is one of them, as for BT speed tests l have always thought of them as skewed why? because they run the network on a whole which means the speed tests bandwidth as a whole might not reflect a similar environment that would match internet speed. (if that makes sense) try speedtest.net or another speed tester that isnt BT to see what that says.

another reason could possibly be the sites you are visiting, all sites have to share out bandwidth equally and some servers actually are set to not give out more than a specific ratio of speed per active user and some are specifically limited to a certain amount of k.
 
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hi adeys,

not sure this link will help,

http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-game-network-latency-in-windows-7-or-vista/


Anyway have a read and see what you think, I am using windows7 64bit and have done everything on this page and gone from 247ms on World of warcraft to between 24ms and 35ms. when i run in dual boxxing mode of 5 accounts spread out on 2 machines each account logs in and is never over 56ms.

other things to look at is what your MTU (packet size) is set at also.

hope this helps

all the best dem
 
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