Hello, I have a newly built gaming computer. intell17, gforce 295x etc... I placed windows 7 as my OS. My download speed is a fourth of what it is with my very old computer that is running XP. I tested both through the same router and also individually run through my ISP modem. All my drivers are up to date. I am at a loss on what to do. I should be blowing the doors off with download. After looking all over the forums and trying the possible solutions I am a bit frustrated. Is my best bet to load XP on this computer? Do you have a solution? Thank you for your consideration Brian

You have a configuration issue you need to debug. You'll need to provide motherboard info, AV/firewall type, driver sourcing (Windows provided or motherboard vendor) and so on.I just did a speakeasy test while writing this reply:#1 Asus P5b-Deluxe, E8400, 4GB ram, XProx86: 15963K up, 3929K down.#2 Asus P6T-Deluxe V2, Core I7-920, 6GB ram, Win7Prox64: 14793K up, 3610 down.Both machines running standard clock speeds.The Win7 being slower is not exactly what it seems, I ran the test while watching HD video streaming over Ethernet from my Silicon Dust HDHomerun IP tuner. Cancelling the video streaming, the numbers changed to 16882K up, 4101K down for the Win7 machine.If you are seeing only 25% the throughput with Win7, there is a configuration issue that can be fixed. Got a longer cable that is causing collisions and re-transmission? What color is the Enet connector speed led? Off = 10Mbps, Orange = 100Mbps, Green = 1Gbps. Do both system's Speed leds indicate the same connection speed under all circumstances (router or direct to modem)?I run a gigabit network here, so both of mine show Green of course, let us know what you are seeing there. If you don't have leds, you can get the connect info from the control panel as well.DAS

Hi Brian, Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following: 1. Boot the computer to Safe Mode with networking and see how it works. 2. Please run the following commands in an elevated command prompt in Windows 7: netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT