My project for this summer was to build myself a gaming PC. I gave it plenty of high end components (quad core cpu, 4gb ram etc..), and am now frustrated by the slow internet speeds that I am encountering on vista home premium 64 bit. I have a wireless pci card (a Zonet), am connecting to my secured home network wirelessly. I get the icon with the two computers and the globe or whatever, but when I try to load a webpage other than google or some other simple site (few images, no videos/flash etc..), My browser, Google Chrome, will say that it cannot find the page or something. But, I can still log into and connect to TeamSpeak. I am writing this thread from my vista laptop, (32bit), and it gets internet just fine from the same room, so it is not out of range. I am very frustrated at not being able to play games online because of lag and high ping and what-not. Cab someone please help me? -Zach

Here are a few things that may speed it up a bit: 1. In case you have finger problems, create a system restore point before making these two registry changes. Click the Windows Orb (Start), type regedit, press Enter and navigate to registry keyHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings Look for two keys in the right pane, MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. If they exist, then right-click on each in turn and Modify the value to decimal 10 (hex a). If the strings don't exist in the right pane they will need to be added manually. To add the two keys, right-click in the white space in the right pane, select New > DWORD Value, type the first name as the string name, press Enter and then repeat the procedure for the second one. Now modify the values to decimal 10 (hex a). As the registry key is a CURRENT_USER one, the change needs to be done for each user of the computer. 2. Also, turn off 'RSS Feeds' by going to Internet Options > Content Tab > Feeds and Web Slices > Settings and uncheck Automatically check feeds for updates. 3. Presumably this applies to all browsers but specifically IE. If it is running slowly, you may be running too many add-ons. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Manage add-ons then disable any unnecessary add-ons.

Hi, Thank you for your posts. Please try the following to narrow down the issue: 1. Please check if it works when you connect to the network with a network cable. 2. Boot the system to Safe Mode with networking and see how it works. 3. Temporarily remove all the security software (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc.) and check if it works. 4. Please check if you can ping the URLs of the websites. 5. If there is another computer on the network, please check if it also encounters this issue. Thanks.Nicholas Li - MSFT

I had no sucess with any of BurrWalnut's suggestions, and no sucess in safe mode w/ net, please help.

I'll echo what others have said..Any speed web speed test should be done using a wired connectionSo that's your first stepWhile you're at it, go ahead and disable your wireless card in the network propreties.OK, so now we're sure you're running only through your wired network..well, try it out!Still slow?Slow, exactly how? Initially connecting to web sites? Slow download speeds, browsing from page to page?They all have different causes...Also, again, as others have said...Anti virus software can have a huge, and I mean, gigantic, impact on your system performance in general, but specially in the networking area.What are you running?If I were you I'd un-install it out right, if this is truly a gaming PC you shouldn't run anything, as you probably want to squeeze every last FPS you can out of it, besides, again, if it's a gaming PC, you shouldn't be browsing the web all that much, or receiving emails on it, set up a cheapo/old machine for that ;)At any rate, just for troubleshooting purposes...Uninstall whatever you have, and try again, still only connected through the wired....Symantec Anti-Virus and McaFee are the worst offenders, I've seen top of the line Alienware machines being brought to its knees by them....