[Wally15]

If it were a hardware problem, wouldn't it affect xp as well, having xp installed on the same computer, the internet is fine, so it has to be Vista that is the problem. I don't know alot about the computer, so excuse my ingnorance.
Wendy

[Wally15]

I forgot to mention that I have Mozilla firefox on my computer, which I use all of the time, but it is the same throught firefox and internert explorer.
Wendy

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by Wally15

I forgot to mention that I have Mozilla firefox on my computer, which I use all of the time, but it is the same throught firefox and internert explorer.
Wendy

Somehow I misunderstood that XP was on same computer and thought you were saying that you had another pc utilizing XP.

[cubespeed]

I had the same problem as you. Tried everything and nothing worked.

Then I downloaded old driver from year 2002 for my Realtek RTL8139 onboard card and installed it over existing 2007 driver and my net was flying again. I got the driver on my motherboard manufacturers site (dfi)

My windows update log shows update for this card on date 5/23/2007 - Networking software released in January 1 2007. Probably bad update.

hope this helps

[Wally15]

Originally Posted by cubespeed

I had the same problem as you. Tried everything and nothing worked.

Then I downloaded old driver from year 2002 for my Realtek RTL8139 onboard card and installed it over existing 2007 driver and my net was flying again. I got the driver on my motherboard manufacturers site (dfi)

My windows update log shows update for this card on date 5/23/2007 - Networking software released in January 1 2007. Probably bad update.

hope this helps

I'm so glad that you saw my thread on this problem. I had already looked at the driver for my network card, and because it had updated 8 days before the problem started, I didn't think it would be the driver, because it worked perfectly for the 8 days. So I did as you suggested, I didn't download a driver, I just rolled back to the previous driver. And Bingo the Internet is fine. I hadn't checked this forum for the last couple of days, because I didn't seem to be getting anywhere. Not that the people weren't helpful, they were great in trying to solve the problem. I was so close to taking Vista off the Computer and staying with XP.
Thankyou so much, forever grateful.

Wendy

[Rich-M]

You know I have had quite a few experiences like that with Vista drivers myself, and I never remember such things happening when XP was new.

[darrenjohnson]

Dear Wendy and everyone on this thread:

THANK YOU!!!!!

I was having the EXACT same problem over the last two weeks and going crazy trying to figure it out. I bought 2 new, "Vista Certified" Netgear routers, disabled all of my firewall settings, tried every router configuration possible, and lo' and behold, simply rolling back the driver on my stupid Realtek RTL8139 card fixed the problem.

Cnet Speed Test before: 109 KBps
Cnet Speed Test after: 1017.7 Kbps

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR HELPING OUT WITH THIS!

Sorry for the all caps, but this just made my day!

-Darren Johnson

[Wally15]

I know exactly how you feel Darren, because I was going to take Vista off the Computer, I was going to have to reformat it, so I had to go out and buy another external hard drive, so I could transfer all of my stuff. These forums a great on this site, for finding solutions to your problems, I tried lots of other forums, but to no avail. I think that someone should send Realtek an email telling them about this driver for the network card, as I went to there site, and there is no mention of it on there. I couldn't even download a driver from there, because it was coming up with some error (425 Unable to build data connection, software caused connection abort) have never experienced that problem when trying to download anything either.
Thanks for the reply, maybe we can be of help to each other in the future, with problems we may encounter.

Wendy

[scubasteveb77]

I am so glad I decided to use google to see if this was a problem other people were having.
I have had slow internet connections on Visa (fine on XP) and tried everything including removing programs (Cisco vpn client, ran anti-virus scan, etc) with no luck

My D-link (Realtek) network card had a date of 1/19/2007, so it didn't seem to be the issue, but when I rolled back the driver to 2006 my internet connection is working like normal again.

Hopefully D-link gets this correct. I can't believe the driver was approved by Microsoft as a certified driver.

Thanks everyone.

[Rich-M]

That is one of the biggest problems in Vista is new drivers that should never have been offered.

[chuckalot]

I am Soooooooooooooooooooooo grateful to you guys, had exactly the same problem and nobody else could help me, I thought I was going to have to re-install, you've saved me such a lot of time. Thank you Thank you Thank you.

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by chuckalot

I am Soooooooooooooooooooooo grateful to you guys, had exactly the same problem and nobody else could help me, I thought I was going to have to re-install, you've saved me such a lot of time. Thank you Thank you Thank you.

They like you to mark the post solved by using thread tools at the top of the page!
Glad you got it!

[theReplicant]

had the same exact issue and same NIC ! here is what you do

go to device manager...select your NIC.....select Driver tab....select Rollback Driver

Windows Update probably updated to the 2007 driver...Rollback to the 2006 version.

happy fast downloading !! theReplicant

[Wally15]

Thanks for the reply, but I solved this issue on the 15th June, 2007.
But thanks anyway.
Wendy

[strangenewvista]

Originally Posted by Wally15

Re-typed it in using the space, and it flashed a screen this time, I so I presume it did what
it was supposed to do, but unfortunately my internet is still the same. I am at my wits end here, thinking of uninstalling Vista, and go back to using XP, but this still doesn't give me an answer.
Lot of mucking around taking Vista off my computer, have to shift about 200gb worth of stuff on to an external hard drive. And because the 320gb one that I have is full, I have to go out and purchase another one.
Thanks for the suggestions
Wendy

I had a very similar issue, although I seemed to fix this by rolling back the driver for the network card. I was seeing downloads of 2-6kbps and given that I've broadband and that my laptop was working fine, and that Vista was working initially before running updates i assumed it wasnt my connection.

I'm now able to download stuff at full speed, but really is full speed ever fast enough ??


Steve