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I've been prepared to blame my ISP for my poor upload speeds, but today I realised it is only Windows 8 Pro with Media Center (my main OS) that is having the problems. Linux Mint, and an old Windows 8 CP Windows To Go USB stick both achieve the upload and download speeds expected on the same laptop. I've tried a range of browsers, and they are all similar in the same OS environment. I have tested with several different speed testers, but I'll illustrate this with ThinkBroadBand's speed test.
What I should get is up to 80Mbps download and uploads up to 20Mbps.
Under Windows 8 Pro with Media Center I get this:
very low upload speeds about 1% expected, good download rate dropping off when the connection is saturated
Linux mint:
consistently good rates especially under high throughput connections
Windows 8 CP To Go:
generally high rates, but uploads drop off under higher throuput
Does anyone know how to change the characteristics to improve my Windows 8 performance?
What I should get is up to 80Mbps download and uploads up to 20Mbps.
Under Windows 8 Pro with Media Center I get this:
very low upload speeds about 1% expected, good download rate dropping off when the connection is saturated
Linux mint:
consistently good rates especially under high throughput connections
Windows 8 CP To Go:
generally high rates, but uploads drop off under higher throuput
Does anyone know how to change the characteristics to improve my Windows 8 performance?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP COMPAQ Presario CQ57
- CPU
- AMD E- 300 APU with Radion HD Graphics 1.30GHz
- Motherboard
- inbuilt
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI
- Sound Card
- High Definition Audio on-board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- notebook
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- Seagate ST9500325AS
Google drive 15GB
Skydrive 25GB
BT Cloud
- PSU
- external 20v
- Case
- Laptop
- Cooling
- pretty good
- Keyboard
- inbuilt
- Mouse
- touchpad
- Internet Speed
- BT Infinity Unlimited - 80 up 20 down =70/16 really
- Browser
- Chrome Canary usually
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender and Malwarebytes
- Other Info
- no Start menu modifications
Upgraded with no issues to 8.0 and to 8.1