I am at my wits end here. I have been fighting this issue for about a few months now with no end in sight.
I purchased a new HP Pavilion 17-e180nr with a Realtek PCIe FE 8167 NIC that came with Windows 8. As I love Win7, have a 1tb HDD from my old HP, didnt feel like spending the next year trying to reinstall everything and get updates with my blazing fast internet, instead of using Win 8 i just swapped the HDD with my old one and re-registered my Win7 to this PC.
The issue is when I first go online, everything is fine but after about 2-5 minutes, my throughput drops way down and never recovers. This was not an issue with my old laptop, and I would not have bought a new one if it wasn’t for the fact that my old laptop got damaged in a way that is probably unique to my location.
– system specs: HP Pavilion 17-e180nr with a Realtek PCIe FE 8167 NIC 2.5GHz up to 3.5GHz AMD Elite Quad-Core A10-5750M Accelerated Processor 4MB L2 Cache 8GB DDR3L SDRAM (1 DIMM) AMD Radeon HD 8650G graphics with up to 4206MB total graphics memory 1TB 5400RPM hard drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) 1x1 802.11b/g/n WLAN
Background – I am using Freedom Sat internet – I am in Afghanistan – I am one of those damn dirty contractors you hear about :-)
– I am an IT guy from way back and this issue is making me feel real stupid
– issue happens if I am using Firefox, IE or Chrome
– issue happens whether or not I am downloading anything or just surfing
– issue only happens to my computer (being the IT guy I monitor the bandwidth usage of the Freedom Sat and while others are pulling a blazing RX rate of 3500Kbps (yes 3500Kbps) I am pulling 500Kbps or less
– If I open only one program, let’s say iTunes and start a download, I get 4500-5000Kbps for about 2-5 minutes then it starts to drop
– same thing if I only open FF and start a download, I know what you’re thinking, but even if it is a work related download the same thing happens
– if I disable and re-enable my NIC the issue starts over with good speeds ( I know you are laughing by now at my “good” speeds of 5000Kbps) and then slows down
– I have tried every driver I can find for this NIC and even some older drivers that may not be specifically for this NIC but work
– I have tried many different adjustments in the advanced setting of the driver such as flow control enable/disable, speed and duplex to 100 full instead of auto and many many other settings to no avail
– I have run many different scans to make sure I don’t have virus or malware or anything (seeing how this has been happening as soon as I got the computer and put my old hard drive in this POS – I doubted it was any of those since it worked fine in my old laptop) (spybot, Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner, JRT, ESET and MSE and all came back pretty clean. I know its hard to believe but yes, they came back pretty clean with only a few minor things that were not rated as dangerous in the least or unwated, but I still let the tools have their way with the files and remove the files and reg keys (in total all tools removed around 10-12 of these files, reg keys).
– I monitor my throughput using the MS provided resource monitor (somewhat accurate) as well as the Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic utility (pretty accurate) and the monitoring station that I monitor everyone’s bandwidth and throughput from Freedom Sat
Anything else you all need to help me with this, I will be happy to supply.
Thanks in advance for any help you all can offer.
Sincerely, Bewildered and perplexed in Trashcanistan
