Rich-M
Well-Known Member
Talk about having egg on your face, today I am wearing an entire omelet!!!! Comcast showed up bright and early and plugged into their modem router and did 5 perfect tests at 57 MBPS on an old beatup Dell Latitude laptop. IN disbelief I dragged out my Sony E series laptop and accomplished the same thing. I have had this guy before and he cares. New cases, motherboards, pci and pci-x gigabit ethernet cards, Ssd drive new, new video card and I start with 28 MBPS but quickly enough drop down to 5 MBPS. After he left I went and got a new cup of coffee and in spite of my urge to go out and buy a sledge hammer and fix this the old fashioned way I just started a list of all things in common. The cable guys words "something is throttling back the speeds" stuck in my head. I unplugged every usb cable except for keyboard and mouse and still running 5 Mbps plugged directly into modem. I started thinking one of the few things in common was all systems were AMD except for the Intel i-5 original system that died. I was going to move another desktop over to here and run it but decided to first go through Programs and Features and there it was sticking its big ugly head at me an AMD utility called "AMD Upstream" utility and it didn't sound good because I never put that there deliberately. I never install AMD utilities of any kind but I bet the AMD utility cd got that in there and I never noticed. I have done 15 speed tests now all coming out 57 MBPS plugged into router with all usb cables back. What the Hell is the matter with these people that put crippling utilities on their motherboard cds. I remember years ago an AMD utility that was supposed to keep temps down that warped out all kinds of systems into doing all kinds of whacked out responses. I tried Googling that utility and cannot find a thing about it which is really strange.