Windows XP on DV5-1060!! WI-FI Transfer problem!

Hello. I've got a problem with HP DV5-1060ew. I've installed Win XP according to "Joshua wood" instructions... link . All device have been installed. No conflicts or unknown devices. I was happy that I changed from the dumb Vista to a normal system. But the happiness didn't last long. When I cofigured wifi and started downloading files from the internetm it appeared that transfer instead of 1,2Mb/s (10Mbit/s) is 256 kb/s (2,56 Mbit/s). I tried many things. Reinstallig intel Ich9 SATA, matrix storage driver and many other. It didn't help. I've still got low download speed. Maybe it's something to do with SATA controller and HDD has low data flow,maybe WIFI config, please, help me. I'm intent on Win XP, but on transfer too. Regards

 

Hello. Really had nobody similar problem?

 

Tried different wi fi drivers? Also what router? Network settings etc.

 

Other drivers is not compatible for this wifi.Router is ok. My other notebook, acer aspire with win XP- wifi transfer is 10 Mbit/s. I dont know, what is this HP.

 

I've just gone back to XP after trying Vista for a bit. It seems under XP my wireless keeps dropping a lot. The signal strength is very low where I am, but Vista seemed to maintain it. I haven't done much testing on this yet, but it seems to possibly be related to hibernate or standby, as a system restart will cause it to connect, when 1min prior it would not. Anyone notice anything like this?

 

In short i didn't observe such an effect. Under XP the transfer jumped a few times to 750 kb/s but after that it went down to 256 kb/s. I'm losing any hope on success in doing it under XP. Regards.

 

You might try to tweak your TCP stack using the information from here. I have used it with success on two desktop machines where the download speed was low when running XP (this is only an XP issue, not necessary with Vista).

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

i.e.
- Run the Java Tweak Tool
- Click on Results when Finished
- Enter in your dsl or cable speed info and OS.
- Click on recommend

- Tweak Tester Result - On this page look at:

4. Notes and Recommendations

download/use DRTCP

Download the file and run it. Set the value in the Tcp Recieve Window: 65535

Leave the other fields at default or blank as they are.

Click Save

 

Helo. I did everything according to your instructions. It improved my transfer speed, but not to max. It reaches 980 Kbit/sec, when under Vista it was reaching 1200 Kbit/s. The site show me such results:

Tweak Tester Result
We have collected information from your trial download and upload.
Service: Wireless
Download Speed kbit/s: 13000
(the download speed advertised for your line)
Operating System: WINXP
Connection: Normal

1. Your Tweakable Settings
Receive Window (RWIN): 500776
Window Scaling: 3
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: ON
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1460
TTL:
(less any hops behind firewall)
127
TTL remaining: 115
TOS flags: none set

2. Test Download
Actual data bytes sent: 1024001
Actual data packets: 703
Max packet sent (MTU): 1500
Max packet recd (MTU): 1500
Retransmitted packets: 0
sacks you sent: 0
pushed data pkts: 86
data transmit time: 3.268 secs
our max idletime: 197.8 ms
transfer rate: 285114 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 2280 kbits/sec
transfer efficiency: 100%

3. ICMP (ping) check
Minimum ping: 120.29 ms
Maximum ping: 129.66 ms
Ping stability:
123.29 120.29 126.39 120.71 129.66 120.76 123.58 123.10 122.09 121.73
4. Notes and Recommendations
Choose RWIN between 122640 and 325580 (FAQ #586)
download/use DRTCP .. (FAQ #578)
Read the tweak FAQ

Observations:
Good data stream (no/few rexmits)

Observations:
Looking good

I changed RWIN to 325580, reboot xp, it's still the same. 9800 KBit/s.
But it's not bad after all. I think I'll leave it like that.
Thanx

 

You entered your Download Speed as 13000 kbit/s. What kind of service do you have or is that an error? That would be 13Mbit/s. i.e. My DSL, ATT Pro, has an advertised max of 3000 kbit/s but my typical download rate is 2500 Kbit/s or about 312KB/sec.

To me your RWIN value is way to high but if it works what can I say. In your last paragraph you indicated your download speed was 9800 kbit/s. I think you added one to many zero's.

 

I have a cable network with transfer 10Mbit/s, what gives a real download speed of 1-1,3 Mb/s. It's a very fast network. I have internet from cable TV - "upc chello"
regards