Help please! M1530 freezes/slows while downloading. 2nd Post

Hey guy, i hate to repost but i never got a response for my 1st one.

Heres my problem:
For some reason while I download my computer becomes unusable. Everything completely slows down. I cant even type normally because i type faster than it shows up on the screen. Trying to listen to music doesnt work either cause it just skips. Same with browsing the internet. its like my laptop becomes stoned.

Ive contacted XPS support and they didnt help. I was with them for like 2 hours and they couldnt figure anything out. At the end they just told me to reinstall the OS.

Ive had this problem for quite a while now. Ive reinstalled Vista and it still has the problem. You can see my specs on my sig, but I'm currently on Vista Home Premium cause reinstalled the OS.

 

sure it's not your connection speed?

joking aside, it really might be your connection speed D). with that kind of broadband connection, you could be downloading so much data so fast that the computer needs so much processing power and RAM space to move the data through your system that it can't run any other stuff properly anymore. only possibility i can think of right now.

 

download ccleaner.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/download/425aff760c413d320f5a6371aebf43c5/

it is about 2mb, which is very small.

 

I'm on a 7MB Cable. I download at about 800kb/s. I know its not the speed cause my brothers computer which is much much worse with only 2MB of RAM and a much slower processor downloads fine.

I already have it, and it does nothing to fix this problem.

 

WiFi or Lan ?

 

WiFi. But i have tried turning off WiFi and using LAN and still the same problem. It wasnt direct to the modem, but to the router. I'm using a linksys WRT54G. I'm pretty sure thats not the problem cause all other computers on my home network do fine while downloading.

 

What software are you using to download. Are you just downloading from the internet through your web browser or are you using p2p software (bittorrent, limewire etc.)
Does the same problem occur if you try to download directly from the internet.

 

Then try disabling TCP/IP AutoTunning and see if there is major difference in Internet speeds .

goto to a elevated command prompt then type this

Code:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

note this , if this trick doesn't help in anyway then plz enable it back using the following syntax

Code:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

 

I don't use any P2P software. I use RapidShare.com
Depending on the file size I will usually download through FlashGet.
I use Firefox 3.0.3 (latest version) and have tried downloading though there and still the same problem.
I've also tried through Internet Explorer and even FTP and the computer becomes unusable.
The second I pause any download it returns to its normal fast speeds.

 

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