Need help: Port 8095 slow down

Hi guys,

Newbie alert i'm afraid.

I've been having probs with my internet speeds for well over a month now. However, I seem to have drilled it down to not being anything to do with my ISP or telephone line.

The basics: i'm on Virgin ADSL with a max of 2mb connection. For well over 2 years now I have had a solid 1.8 download speed (checked thanks to the speedtest at thinkbroadband.com) on their Port 8095 test. Never had any problems.

Then, whilst playing Call of Duty 4 on a German server (i'm in UK), on which I always got around a 40 - 60 ping, I started getting 150 to 250 ping. No slowdown on websites though. So ran the speedtest and now I get 0.1mb download all times day/night. But if I run with the Port 80 option ticked, then i'm back to my old speeds again.

Checked with Virgin and i'm not being speed throttled, took my PC to a friends house who has an 8mb connection via a network (so not on my USB modem), and got exactly the same results - 0.1mb download.

I have even reformatted and reinstalled Vista 32, ran the speedtest without my AVG firewall turned on but still to no avail!!!

I cannot think of anything I have downloaded that has made a change outside of the usual Vista updates.

Sorry for the long post, but please any ideas would be very gratefully received. :coolthumb:

Thanks

Network card could be knackered. try to get your hands on a pci network card, disable the onboard network card in bios and recheck results.

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Originally Posted by marcEmarc

Network card could be knackered. try to get your hands on a pci network card, disable the onboard network card in bios and recheck results.

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Nice idea, but I use a USB ADSL Modem most of the time. The only time I used the network card was at my friends place. So I don't think that would contribute.

get a virgin engineer out as you may need a modem upgrade and by the way for an extra 50p a month you can upgrade to 10mb. call virgin on 150 from your phone for free.

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Originally Posted by johnny.rotton

get a virgin engineer out as you may need a modem upgrade and by the way for an extra 50p a month you can upgrade to 10mb. call virgin on 150 from your phone for free.

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The snag with that is that A) when I used my friends connection he is on a BT Business connection of 8mb and B) The max I can get for my line is 3.5mb, it's ADSL not cable and i'm on Vodaphone.

Sorry I was only going on the information you gave at the start of this thread.

Quote:: "The basics: i'm on Virgin ADSL with a max of 2mb connection. For well over 2 years now I have had a solid 1.8 download speed (checked thanks to the speedtest at thinkbroadband.com) on their Port 8095 test. Never had any problems."

If you are on Vodafone and you using a wireless dongle your speed is going to be low anyway as a t-mobile 2mg dongle will only clock 0.14mb on speed tests.

JR

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Originally Posted by johnny.rotton

Sorry I was only going on the information you gave at the start of this thread.

Quote:: "The basics: i'm on Virgin ADSL with a max of 2mb connection. For well over 2 years now I have had a solid 1.8 download speed (checked thanks to the speedtest at thinkbroadband.com) on their Port 8095 test. Never had any problems."

If you are on Vodafone and you using a wireless dongle your speed is going to be low anyway as a t-mobile 2mg dongle will only clock 0.14mb on speed tests.

JR

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Ah, no again, wrong end of the stick. It's not wireless or on a dongle. It's on my home telephone line. I'm too far from the bundled exchange to get anything better than 3.5mg, but I have a 2mb connection thru Virgin ADSL, which normally connected at 1.8mb according to thinkbroadband.com speedtest. I have a Thomson usb modem connected to my PC.

I have uninstalled my AVG anti-virus and firewall and performed the speedtest - result 0.1mb, then again with the Windows Firewall disabled - result 0.1mb!