Windows 7 Download speed is half of upload speed

[RodBarnes]

I'm looking for some direction on this because it clearly isn't related to the networking hardware itself (see below). Nor is it an provider issue as I am doing all my testing between local computers on my LAN. Are there some Windows network settings that might account for this behavior?

Regardless of how I improve the speed, whatever I obtain, the download is half of the upload. For example (as measured using BitMeterOS):

• Ethernet: ~40MBs upload, ~20MBs download
• WiFi 5GHz: ~20MBs upload, ~10MBs download
• WiFi 2.4GHz: ~10MBs upload, ~5MBs download

I replaced my router: From DIR-655 802.11n to TP-Link Archer C7 802.11ac. (It was due anyway, I didn't expect this to make a difference.) I replaced the WiFI card: DWA-556 802.11n to TP-Link Archer T8E.


The specs on the system (built October 2010):

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H, 2.6GHz
BIOS: Award FE, 09/30/2010
Chipset: AMD 890GX
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 600e, 2.2GHz, AM3
RAM:
• Patriot DDR3, 2GB, PC3-8500F, 533MHz (x2)
• Crucial DDR3, 2GB, PC3-10700H, 667MHz (x2)
Video: AMD Radeon HD 6850, 1GB GDDR5, 1GHz
Drives:
• 2TB Western Digital HDD SATA 2 (WD20EARS-00S8B1)
• RAID 0, 1TB Seagate SATA 2 (SG31000538AS)
TV Tuner:
• Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 dual-tuner ATSC
WiFi:
• TP-Link Archer T8E 802.11ac

 

[BIGBEARJEDI]

So, your FIOS is hardwired to your home without a broadband cable box? Never seen that with FIOS. Other providers however, I've seen this with condo or apartment complexes where all you get is a Coax cable out of a wall outlet that you plug into your TV or a Cat5 or Cat6 Ethernet cable you can plug into a wifi router and split the signal to multiple computers.

In that case, might I suggest that you find a friend or neighbor that has a non-FIOS ISP, take your 2 computers to his/her house, hook them up to their LAN and repeat your file transfer test. If it fixes the problem, then your FIOS provider is doing something quirky in your location, but you can't do anything to fix it since it's in a box in the attic of the building your in or perhaps basement, or more likely buried a couple of hundred feet from your property in an underground access tunnel 10 ft. below the street. This test would let you know for sure it's your problem on that computer is ISP-related or not.

P.S. I don't expect you to really try this, but just pointing out a possible cause to your problem. Personally, I never test file transfer rates between computers anyway, as it takes as long as it takes to complete the copy of files/folders. If you have one that's exceptionally slow, it's often due to windows corruption on one of the two computers involved in the file transfer. That sometimes requires that one or both computers need to be wiped and Windows resets performed on both to resolve it; if it's not found to be an ISP-related issue.

<<<BBJ>>>

 

[lysagrey]

i have problems like too. I just changed the internet provider

 

[seb345]

Changing the provider not always works. You need a little more work on that

 

[Jimbo22]

• Patriot DDR3, 2GB, PC3-8500F, 533MHz (x2)
• Crucial DDR3, 2GB, PC3-10700H, 667MHz (x2)

Just a FYI: When using mixed matched pairs like that.......the speed (mhz) defaults to the lowest. That said; You might want to look at the timings of each matched pair and if those are not the same then this can certainly cause issues on the hardware side. And maybe the underlying cause of your problem.