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Windows 7 very slow download speeds
Hello, I am experience a strange windows 7(64-bit) glitch that causes download speeds to be quite slow (about 20kb/s). I am on an HP HDX premium series laptop with an Intel Wifi Link 5100agn network adapter. I used speedtest.net to determine the problem persists even when I hardwire my connection directly to the modem. The desktop that is currently connected to the modem reaches download speeds of 8mb/s which is what my internet should be close to. speedtest.net also says I have an upload speed of 1mb/s which is relatively high. I have made sure all the drivers are up to date so this doesn't seem to be the problem. The problem seems to be with windows 7 because I have found several posts while searching documenting nearly identical cases as mine. I have tested out offered solutions on these posts to no avail. I have tried many things such as disabling the teredo tunneling adpater, disabling ipv6, disabling windows update, changing my power saving settings, cleaning the registry etc. but nothing has shown results. I feel like windows is cheating us by not admitting to such a problem. I won't even bother asking their tech support in anticipation of their ignorance. I'm hoping somebody here knows a solution and can please help me. Thanks!