Avast 5 slowing down internet ?

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I have a Virgin Cable internet connection rated at 50 MB download and 1.6mb upload on Speedtest.net. In reality, I usually get speeds of around 5.6 MB download and 1.6 MB uploads on private torrents. My problem is that when I have Avast 5 free installed and running, my connection speeds drop down to max 700mb d/l and around 30 u/l speeds. This feels worse than the original throttling settings used by Virgin. Any explanations re this ? Thanks

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The only things that have drastically slowed my internet speeds are Outpost fw & Sunbelt fw.

I have never noticed any slowdowns from avast!, if anything, with avast! 5 my internet seems faster. 8)

Privatefirewall is very lite on my system, with Privatefirewall I seem to have a “tailwind”. :slight_smile:

See my sig. for my specs.

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Hm…can the test whole file option slow down the connection speed ???

I recommend you to use a download manager :slight_smile:

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Hi mate, can you recommend one ?

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Opera has a good download manager built in. 8)

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Yes, it does … fast and efficient even on dial-up.

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Yep!

I noticed the same thing running on Comcast with 12MB Down/2MB up. It took MS Updates well over 24 hours to download 277MB’s worth. Uninstalled Avast 5.0 Free; downloaded and installed 48.6MB in less than 3 minutes.

Mind you; this is a newly reinstalled OS Windows XP Pro machine with a new HDD for a customer with not much running on it either.

The problem was clearly Avast 5.0 and I’m a Reseller too! ARGH!

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I use Avast on 2 PC: one laptop with XP Pro SP 3 and a celeron 1.6 GHz on cable internet connection rated 32 MBit. No speed loss at all. Windows updates, OpenOffice 3.2 downloads - just as speedy as ever.
Same on the Win 7 Pro x64 Desktop using a core2duo 3.166 GHz.

Avast is on default settings.

As I said: no dropdown in rate at all.

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If you want a plain Download Mananger then use

Free Download Manager Lite

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm

OR if you are into downloading Youtube videos or embidded stuffs, then

Orbit Downloader

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

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You want slow,I’m one of the last people using AOL,talk about slow,I do have comcast cable thou.

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Thanks for the d/l manager suggestions guys. Sorry for the belated reply but hhd crashed :frowning: