Re: Windows buffering downloaded data?

Ynki wrote:
Hi,

I have more than one Windows XP Prof computers connected to a same ADSL router. Only one computer has this problem while other are working normally.

With this one computer, whenever I start to download a file or watch a video etc. from the net it takes really long time (many second) before anything starts to happen.
When I test the network download speed with that computer, first it takes forever before the test starts to download the data and then it’s suddenly over and the test results shows that my network speed is something like 55M (in reality its only 2M).
It seems like the PC is buffering the data coming in and only then, when the buffer is full (or the connection is closed before the buffer getting full) the PC uses (reads) the data (show the download dialog or starts to play the video etc.). With web pages, this problem is not noticeable.

Like I said no problem with the other computer using the same network connection.

Any ides what is going on? How to fix this?


Do you have an antivirus app intercepting and scanning downloads?

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