Sketchy Download speeds on windows 7

[Lech10berg]

Well when ever i try to download something on my desktop, it starts out at 700kbps then the further it goes into the download i find that its at.... 2kbps. EVERY TIME!

i am using a great little usb wireless card. Its a planex GW-USMini2n

and for some reason win 7 just doesnt like it. I turned off the wireless card on my laptop and connected through the usb device and it works perfectly (the laptop has vista)

it so strange though, at one second its at 700 or more then goes down to 20 and below. I tried everything i could find and nothing...

turned off firewalls( both windows and my antivirus)
reinstalled latest drivers.
turned off wireless router and computer, then booted them up again.
tried moving the wireless card closer and out of the way of cluster
stopped IP helper
and a few other things.

just wondering if anyone could spare some insight to help me out. this is killing me!!
brand new computer with terrible internet.....

its like having a brand new car with the tires stolen..

thanks in advance.

 

[torrentg]

Hey.

You could post a screenshot of the advanced tab for the driver, by going to the device manager.

Maybe there's a setting we can figure out in there for it.

 

[skippyhdog]

Make and Model of Wireless Card?

 

[Lech10berg]

The make is by Planex

Model is... GW-USMini2n
just a cool little usb wireless card.

and...... screen shot of what exatly? i know the devicce manager but i dont know what you want for the picture.

 

[skippyhdog]

Running SFC /scannow in a command box never hurt

 

[Lech10berg]

for some reason its not letting me run SFC

 

[skippyhdog]

you have to be the admin

 

[Lech10berg]

yeah it just flashes once on the screen... then nothing.

 

[torrentg]

SFC isn't going to help at all. The screenshot I said above with driver settings might though.

 

[kegobeer]

I don't suppose you've contacted Planex for support? I noticed no Windows 7 drivers for your wifi device, and no mention of Windows 7 on the Planex website, so your hardware may not work at all under Windows 7. Have you tried downloading the Vista drivers for your device and installing them in compatibility mode?

 

[Lech10berg]

yeah i just noticed that myself. nothing says for windows 7... but still how do you get the driver to be set from planex instead of windows.

i downloaded the driver but its set at the mircosoft driver.

 

[Lech10berg]

is that what you are talking about?

 

[kegobeer]

You downloaded the driver - did you unzip the file and try to install the driver? If so, what were the results? Did Windows say you already have the most current driver?

 

[Lech10berg]

yes i installed it, but all that came up was the program that is made for a planex wireless. its just a utility. it didnt replace the driver. and i also went in and foun the driver folder, tried to manually replace it but it said i had the most recent.

 

[kegobeer]

Did you go to the device manager and attempt to update the driver that way?

 

[Lech10berg]

yeah i just tried that now. im going to test it

 

[Lech10berg]

oops. refresh double post.

 

[torrentg]

yes i installed it, but all that came up was the program that is made for a planex wireless. its just a utility. it didnt replace the driver. and i also went in and foun the driver folder, tried to manually replace it but it said i had the most recent.

Right click it in device manager. Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now find and double click on the .inf. Hit ok. Hit next and let it install.

 

[Lech10berg]

nothing. maybe it is because the driver is outdated. still bouncing around bewteen 700 and 20kbps. but mainly at 60.

so no matter what driver i have on it... it is the same. i wouldnt be so cunfused if it wasnt hitting 700 kbps though... that is a slap in the face

 

[skippyhdog]

Are you sure you dont have any firewalls that might be blocking some? Go to dslreports.com and run a speed test and give us the numbers.