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Low and unreliable speeds at any time of day/night on newly installed Gen5
Starting my own post now after reading for days of others' simlar problems which to date appear mostly unresolved. Gen5 installed Friday March 16, 2018, previously using Gen4 I believe it was, th...
Hi deserthaven,
Thank you for your patience and cooperation. I ran diagnostics on your site and nothing out of the ordinary is showing up. Your download speed right now from your modem to the gateway is 20904.626 kb/sec. How are you finding your internet experience lately? Is there something in particular you're trying to do online that's proving difficult?
GabeUwrote:
That's good that you were able to disable the WiFi, including disabling the radios themselves. I tried Firefox and it actually worked better for me than Chrome. LOL. Go figure. :p
And no, enabling/disabling the WiFi won't mess anything up with Liz's information. The important thing, as Liz mentioned in her reply, is making sure that the modem remains plugged in for at least the next 5+ days.
Also, I read what you were talking about with that 20% thing. To be honest, I wouldn't mess with it. The reason is that 99% of the time this won't affect you. That 20% reserved is for when QOS dependent applications are running, and they should have a reserve so they can do what they are supposed to when they need to. Turning that 20% off can actually cause more harm than good for those applications. And most of the time those applications aren't running in the first place, and when they aren't you'll have 100% of your bandwidth.
If you know how to I would reverse what you changed and set it back to where it was. Again, you'll rarely ever see a difference in speed and it can cause more headaches than it's worth.
Well NOW you tell me! :smileyvery-happy: I can see if I can figure out how to reverse it. I was a little afraid to do it but so many said it had helped their speeds so thought I'd try since instructions were fairly clear. I guess if I change back and can verify it has slowed things down with no other traceable reason I can revert back again. I'm guessing Win 7 doesn't have this issue. I'm considering changing this pc to Win 7 as it's far more controllable especially for updates but I haven't decided yet. Any thoughts?
I've been having trouble with Firefox for quite a while now. I installed the newest version and it wouldn't display pages, sometimes at all and sometimes just partially so I went back to version 56 I think it is. I'm running auto speed tests now on Chrome and either my speed is picked up some now or Chrome testing better. What a headache!
Thanks for all of your help!
Well, really, at this point, you can probably just leave it where it is. Perhaps I overemphasized the importance of the QOS being at 20% for those things that use it, as in reality, your speed will probably be enough that you won't notice a whole lot of difference if one of those things needed bandwidth or something. So, again, maybe it's just best to leave it at what you set it at. After all, the registry is a fickle beast, and the less you have to mess around with it the better.
As for Windows 7 vs Windows 10, the one thing to keep in mind is that extended support is going to end in less than two years. Plus, if you're referring to your new computer, it may be that Windows 7 wouldn't run well on it with it being made to run Windows 10. If you have a retail copy of Windows 7 that isn't tied to any other machine or one that you can transfer from an old machine to your new one (again, it has to be a retail copy, not OEM) you can always try it, but if you have to buy a copy of Windows 7 I wouldn't bother. Windows 10 is more secure and better able to run today's applications than Windows 7. If you want my honest opinion, I would stick with what the computer came with.
Really, again, I probably jumped the gun and went a little overboard with my assessment of the 20% thing, and you having it to what you adjusted it to is fine. Like I said, you'll most likely rarely ever notice a difference, either way, and the less you have to fiddle in the registry the better.
