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Have you tried clearing all your internet cache, histories and cookies from your machine? Also get "Autoruns.exe" from microsoft.com and check that nothings hogging your bandwidth. their are otherways to check this but autoruns puts it all on one page so you can click and disable. Don't disable ...

James, I did some checking and found that your modem could be the problem.
Although it says it can handle upto 38Mb most people are having trouble with it. My advice would be to get it upgraded to a Motorola SB5101e, the E stands for Ethernet. Good Luck.

Are the 2 pc's detecting your network? Have you got a WEP key from the router?

Jamesuk, I have mentioned this before to another member because it worked for me. Set your NIC to use "Fullautonegotiation" if it's already set to this change it to "Force100fullduplex". I went through the same as you did with the phone calls to VM and I live about 2 km from the exchange I now get ...

YARDofSTUF wrote:And since all teh DX10 games are in the future it makes no sense then to buy it

Go for the 8800 GTS it's DX10 and it's about as good as the best of the DX9 cards you can buy. I paid £189 2 weeks ago and i'm amazed at what I got for my money. Consider it being DX10 compatible as a bonus.

This is force 100 full duplex (above).

This is autonegotiate. I did this on the fly whilst posting this.
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Trogers,
Mine was set to "force100 full duplex" by default. It was only when I changed the settings to "force autonegotiate" that I started to get the full 20Mb bandwidth. I must say that before I changed my NIC settings (which is onboard using the NVidia 4 chipset) I used the TCP Optimizer and ...

What worked for me and got me from 6Mbit to 20Mbit+ was changing the settings on my network card from 100Mbit full Duplex to autonegotiate.
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start button >run>gpedit.msc

The 20% bandwidth that is "stolen" as far as I am aware is not stolen it only comes into play when you are downloading a microsoft update. It is so you can carry on browsing the internet with no discernable difference to your speed. So if you are not updating it does ...