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Extremely slow network - OEM Home Prem 64bit
At first I thought this was some evil Microsoft trick for new installs which had not yet been activated with a valid product key, but I have successfully activated this installation of Windows 7 for my friend (using the automated phone prompts), so there should not be any evil tricks at play.
The network is wired, the controller is an onboard Intel gigabit Ethernet. The driver is reportedly working. From the adapter "Status" dialog, I am seeing:
- Upload speeds between 100 Bytes/sec to 5,000 Bytes/sec (that is right, Bytes/sec), averaging on the low end of 100 Bytes/sec
- Download speeds between 500 Bytes/sec to 10,000 Bytes/sec, averaging about 5000 Bytes/sec.
This is unbelievably horrifically slow. Dial-up was faster than this. I also connected a USB-to-Ethernet adapter rated at 100Mbit/s, and I got the exact same speeds as detailed above. I am certain that there are no problems with the hardware as the machine dual-boots to Linux and there are no network problems there.
I have attempted to download updates via Windows Update, in case there was some update needed to resolve the network speed, however it keeps failing, probably because of timeouts downloading from the update server.
I don't know what's going on. I have heard from a friend that the Home Premium edition of Windows 7 does not allow advanced changes to the network settings, but he never heard of this serious a bottleneck on network traffic.
If anyone else is having this issue installing Windows 7 in 2018, please reply so at least I'll know it isn't just me.