Fast broadband but really slow on one machine?

On Plus net FTTC but use BTsmart hub 6. iPad getting 60-70 Mbps and other laptops all good. Desktop which has a 20-25m ethernet cable connect getting less than 4 Mbps.

Desktop isn't the sharpest but has a clean install of Windows 7 and is mainly used as a music server.

INTEL Atom CPU 230 @1.60 Ghz 2.00GB RAM

Any thoughts or ideas to try appreciated!

The specs aren't fantastic to be honest with you.

And maybe the ethernet cable has developed a fault? It happens.

The specs aren't fantastic to be honest with you.

 

And maybe the ethernet cable has developed a fault? It happens.

Thanks, I figured that could be the issue. PC bought as a low power almost always on music server. Have 2 ethernet cables and they are under the floorboards and inaccessible, one is for printer and one for the desktop. About the last 2 metres of them both is coiled together. Just uncoiled and swapped the cables over now getting 37 on https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/ what gives? Surely not interference?

Thanks, I figured that could be the issue. PC bought as a low power almost always on music server. Have 2 ethernet cables and they are under the floorboards and inaccessible, one is for printer and one for the desktop. About the last 2 metres of them both is coiled together. Just uncoiled and swapped the cables over now getting 37 on https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/ what gives? Surely not interference?

It could be, - you should never coil wires together, it creates an electromagnet (no matter how weak) and basically like an inductor or transformer, the magnetic field from each can interfere with eachother...

Although in theory the twisted pair in ethernet is deliberately to damp cross talk.

Actually still a bit pants today, think it might be spec of PC. Can’t add any more RAM according to crucial tool and chrome does chug away quite sluggish.

It's likely your PC. Coiling Cat5 together won't make a great deal of difference to the cables capability, as sometimes I coil Cat5 in 8, 16, 24 and 48 cable bundles (and more).

On 11/15/2018 at 8:57 PM, walkertelecoms said:

It's likely your PC. Coiling Cat5 together won't make a great deal of difference to the cables capability, as sometimes I coil Cat5 in 8, 16, 24 and 48 cable bundles (and more).

True, he's on an atom, not the best imho....

But You got lucky with the cables, have known 2 cat5 cables twisted together cause problems with each other, pull and re-run without twisting/coiling together the issues were gone...

oh well

Chrome is heavy at the best of times, I'd definitely try Firefox or an even lighter browser.  ANYTHING but Chrome or Chrome-based.

35 minutes ago, AlexAtkin said:

Chrome is heavy at the best of times, I'd definitely try Firefox or an even lighter browser.  ANYTHING but Chrome or Chrome-based.

Never had an issue with Chrome, even on a system with 2GB RAM, not really had a slowdown, now Firefox on the other hand.... 

(the difference is chrome runs a process PER TAB (so if one dies/crashes, it doesn't take the whole browser with it))

 

1 hour ago, Ghozer said:

Never had an issue with Chrome, even on a system with 2GB RAM, not really had a slowdown, now Firefox on the other hand.... 

(the difference is chrome runs a process PER TAB (so if one dies/crashes, it doesn't take the whole browser with it))

 

Firefox has effectively been completely rewritten over the past few years, it uses WAY less RAM than Chrome and IMO is just as fast now.

OK, here are my results from FerenOS - Memory Usage.

The default browser is Vivaldi which uses the Chrome Engine I believe:

Vivaldi-bin 66.9 Mib (let's say 66 Mb)

  GPU 25.1 Mib

  renderer 56.8 Mib

  renderer 19.1 Mib

  renderer 12.1 Mib

  renderer 84.9 Mib

  renderer 90.5 Mib

  zygote 9.9 Mib

  zygote 9.9 Mib

TOTAL = 283.2 - Multiple Tabs open including pages containing videos/video links, discord connection (gaming chat room used by FerenOS dev and Makulu Linux devs)

Firefox 140 Mib (let's say 112 Mb - oh it's gone up to 140 Mib and not doing anything) 2 intro tabs

Opera 31.5 Mib

   GPU 15 Mib

   renderer 11.4 Mib

   renderer 43.4 Mib

   renderer 13.0 Mib

   renderer 10.0 Mib

  renderer 29.3 Mib

  zygote 4.1 Mib

  zygoge 4.1 Mib

TOTAL = 161.8  (Speed Dial Tab and Intro Tab only open)

Brave 184.0 Mib

  GPU 15.7 Mib

  renderer 8.2 Mib

  renderer 59.3 Mib

  renderer 9.7 Mib

  renderer 50.2 Mib

  renderer 14.4 Mib

  renderer 9.6 Mib

  zygote  2.0 Mib

  zygote  2.0 Mib

TOTAL 355.1 Mib - and only speed dial and intro tab open!)

Falkon  91.5 Mib - Start/Intro Page (one tab)

Chromium (Open Source version of Chrome)

   browse  31.2 Mib

   browse 9.2 Mib

    browse 9.3 Mib

    browse 12.8 Mib

    browse 22.9 Mib

    gpu 23.6 Mib

TOTAL 109 Mib - Just welcome Tab open

There is a problem with Feren OS Browser Manager in respect of trying to install the official Google Chrome (link issue suspect) but would think it would be similar to Chromium.

Web (formerly Abrowser)

WebKitNetworkProcess 13.5 Mib

WebKitWebProcess 13.6 Mib

TOTAL 27.1 Mib - Just blank page with a Greyed 'Welcome to Web' message in main window underneath is "Start browsing and your most-visited sites will appear here" so basically speed dial without the usual gubbins of social media and holiday booking sites - a blank canvas!

So in GNU/Linux the least memory intensive is Web (It was never functional when it came to posting desktop/window images to the Zorin forum, just like another GNU/Linux browser, Midori.

Wrong! So entered zorinos.com in Web and then opened 'Zorin community forum' in new tab and the results rocket!

WebKitNetworkProcess 16.1 Mib

WebKitWebProcess 189.7 Mib

WebKitWebProcess 124.4 Mib