Is Service Pack 2 fuckin up my BW

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:09 pm

well it's funny how traffic kept coming everyday, it was getting that much of a pain in a ass.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:38 am

fyrtenheimer wrote:
Rosie-chan wrote:Firewalls, in my experience, are either on or off. Either traffic gets through or it doesn't. I don't know of any firewalls that have the means of throttling bandwidth.
Either on or off? What the hell would be the point in that? Uh, any firewall that lets you filter it and/or filter it to hell, or with any options at all can degrade bandwidth, default settings included. Ex: Sygate. Our little Windows XP one has been known to do that to people. Might want to look that up.
Asside from that, there are many other things that could affect bandwidth, most of them having nothing at all do to with the user's computer. There might be an unusualy high ammount of traffic on the .org, problems at the ISP, problems at any of dozzens of places between your computer and the .org...too many variables to go blaming the firewall outright.
..But if it's a problem notedly mentioned by dozens of people , excluding the org, you might want to check it out.

Fyrt's right, anything that filters or "checks" all the data commign in or out of your computer can degrade performance. Most firewalls will degrade performance a little. Its not supposed to do it by a big margin though when working properly. Theres also the possibility of it changing settings in your registry dealing with the performance of your internet. but SP2 itself might have done that, and not the firewall persay.

Yok/0 · Post by **Yok/0** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:31 pm

THats fine and dandy u all guys, but i need an explanation how to get rid of this bitch

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:35 am

I think this is the reason I'm still running XP Pro with no serivce packs...

SP1 made my dads computer run slow and SP2 is more trouble than good, from what I hear

Alpha_Hazard · Post by **Alpha_Hazard** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:34 am

Go to control Panel then click on classic view (If you aren't already in it) and Security center...that has all of the stuff you should need...

I noticed the same thing as well. I can only have three files downloading at a time with SP2...

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:55 am

Alpha_Hazard wrote:Go to control Panel then click on classic view (If you aren't already in it) and Security center...that has all of the stuff you should need...

I noticed the same thing as well. I can only have three files downloading at a time with SP2...

I havn't tried to download more than 3 at a time, But I did not see any decrease in speed since I installed SP2. In fact page caches were actually faster afterwards. actuall download speeds remained about the same.

No problems here with SP2. Often times, the problem is misdirected to Microsoft service packs when its actually something else screwing up the system. I've seen it often times when I used to work as a computer technician.

Alpha_Hazard · Post by **Alpha_Hazard** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:08 am

yeah...come to think of it, I could only download one at a time before SP2..so...

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:13 am

well it would seem that I spoke too soon. I'd like anyone else with SP2 and Premiere pro to help confirm this, but it seems that something in SP2 is causing premiere Pro to crash on export... randomly. I tried reinstalling all software, codecs, and drivers relevat to how premeire would operate, and nothing worked. uninstalled SP2 and it worked again. It maybe the new directx 9.0c... I may try installing that seperate to see if it causes the problems again. So for now SP2 is back off my system, and I have to eat my words defending SP2 in my earlier post. At least until I track this problem down.

shishlik · Post by **shishlik** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:11 am

i have the best solution
don't use windows!!!
not to mentions xp

ARica · Post by **ARica** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:19 pm

heh the same thing happend to me,i finaly got mad and reformated but,i used to download like 550 600 kb/per sec now im only geting 300-400 kb/per sec , i kno its not traffic or anything because i mean i just installed sp2 and it was going sloooow,my suggestion is reformat

it sucks but it rocks

hopefully u understand lol