necunlock Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Hi Guys, At my wits end here! After users complaining about slow internet, I've done a speed test on a few workstations, and I'm getting 3mb download and 100mb upload. On my machine (on the domain, but no user/computer policies applied) I get 100mb upload/download, the way it should be. I thought it must be the machines, so I set up a VM on my machine using the same network card... same issue. Also the same on my admin account so it's not a user policy. The only thing I can think it might be is a computer policy... but which ones would affect internet speeds!? I've done a million driver updates, java updates, flash updates, Windows updates, the lot. Nothing in the event log. Did a deployment of Chrome to about 900 machines the other week, and it just crashes and hangs all the time, I think the 2 issues may be related, IE just doesn't seem as sensitive! Also, when I'm running the speed test, the browser (either of them) hangs for a good 15 seconds on the download speed test, then my test graph looks like this (image attached) Anybody have any ideas?
Michael Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Are you certain it's not a switch causing the issue? I can't think what computer GPOs would drastically reduce the download speed. I presume you're running Gigabit switches?
necunlock Posted February 6, 2015 Author Posted February 6, 2015 It can't be, my computer and the VM are running off the same network cable!
Michael Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 I've found you can limit BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service - In Computer Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Network, but this shouldn't affect download speeds from your WAN. If it is a GPO I'd love to know what it is, but I thought you could only restrict bandwidth using software or a firewall solution of some kind.
Davit2005 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 I've found you can limit BITS - Background Intelligent Transfer Service - In Computer Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Network, but this shouldn't affect download speeds from your WAN. If it is a GPO I'd love to know what it is, but I thought you could only restrict bandwidth using software or a firewall solution of some kind. Me too, I feel like throttling some users .
Michael Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Me too, I feel like throttling some users . Don't we all, but remember it's Friday so you don't need to see them for 48 hours! 1
Michael Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 How about Computer Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler - Limit reservable bandwidth Everything here should be left to 'Not Configured' so Windows itself manages bandwidth.
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