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April 18th, 2004, 10:09 PM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
Why would SE:IV cause any problems with bandwidth or framerate...   |
April 18th, 2004, 11:24 PM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
Sounds like a virus or spyware to me... might want to try out AdAware and Avast Antivirus to clean up your system, you never know what you might find
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April 19th, 2004, 12:30 AM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
Keep in mind that pretty much all home-use routers out there run a modified Version of Linux. They certainly are not more powerful than a 486. |
April 19th, 2004, 08:27 AM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
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Are you sure you're actually experiencing lag, and not loss of framerate? Could be the game and the browswer at the same time use too much of your CPU for smooth gameplay.
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Yes I'm sure, since surfing and playing are happening at different computers. The game works smoothly until I click a new link.
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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Sounds like a virus or spyware to me... might want to try out AdAware and Avast Antivirus to clean up your system, you never know what you might find
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I already have AdAware. And why it'd be a virus or spyware program? In that case surely it would lag all the time.
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April 19th, 2004, 04:51 PM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
A lot of viruses are designed to slow down your Internet connection... don't know WHY that's all they do (as opposed to formatting your hard drive) if they got into your computer to begin with, but they do... 
As for spyware, the way it works is it "piggybacks" onto your Internet connection to transmit data, so it would by definition slow it down.
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April 19th, 2004, 05:10 PM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
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A lot of viruses are designed to slow down your Internet connection... don't know WHY that's all they do (as opposed to formatting your hard drive) if they got into your computer to begin with, but they do...
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It's not so much them trying to slow down *your* internet connection as to perform a Denial of Service on someone else (ie Microsoft) which basically amounts to slowing down that company's connection by using yours and those of many other infected machines simultaneously to overload it. |
April 19th, 2004, 08:46 PM
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Re: OT: Bandwidth limiting
I don't believe I have a virus or spyware. When I read a web page there's no traffic through my ADSL box. And there's no problem with speed either.
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