Download speed cut in half

Hello,
I posted before and some how never got any results. Probably my fault. I upgraded to Windows 7 ultimate from XP home. All seems well and things are still pretty fast. When I do bandwidth speed tests, my results in 7 are 1.5 Mps download. In XP they were almost 3 Mbs in XP. I'm paying for 3 Mbs and I have always been close to that until I started using 7. I have tweaked everything to the best performance. Disabled all the eye candy and visual effects etc. Just wondered if I have missed something. I have 160 gig hd with only 1/4 used. 2 gigs memory. 3.2 gig Intel Pentium processor. I have disabled all non essential items. Any ideas on this? Thanks,
John

jsmoline said:

Hello,
I posted before and some how never got any results. Probably my fault. I upgraded to Windows 7 ultimate from XP home. All seems well and things are still pretty fast. When I do bandwidth speed tests, my results in 7 are 1.5 Mps download. In XP they were almost 3 Mbs in XP. I'm paying for 3 Mbs and I have always been close to that until I started using 7. I have tweaked everything to the best performance. Disabled all the eye candy and visual effects etc. Just wondered if I have missed something. I have 160 gig hd with only 1/4 used. 2 gigs memory. 3.2 gig Intel Pentium processor. I have disabled all non essential items. Any ideas on this? Thanks,
John

are you by chance using homegroup?

Best I can tell, it's a work network.

Maybe when my posts get moved, they get lost. Sure would like to get my speed back up.

seems this is a big problem with win 7,i went from vista to 7 64bit and my ping in games has doubled,ive searched all over the net with no luck in finding cure.
My downloads have also slowed down.If xprpo 64 bit wasnt so expensive id go that route,oh well time will tell.

Surely there is something we can do.

Are you sure you havent exceeded your download limit? Many ISPs have a fair usage policy and when that happens, they throttle speeds to half. Check the fine print of your broadband plan, also check with your ISP.

I'm a little concerned about unchecking all those things. I'll check with my ISP, but I don't think they would have changed their policy just when I upgraded to 7 from xp:)