ZA Firewall limits speed

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My ISP upgraded me to 50M donwload speed which I get on my Macbookpro, but with Zone Alarm firewall on I can get only 30M down. I get 50M if I turn it off. Any ideas?

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Some firewalls do buffering, which screws up some speed testers. Can you try downloading a known large file and timing it?

BATcher

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Running Speedtest.net. Sposd to be one of the best. Found this: Start, Run:gpedit.msc
Admin Templates/Network/QOS packet Scheduler
clk on Limit reservable bandwidth, enable, then change the % to 0%
I found an old 10/100 eth card and this helped speed it up, plugged in my 10/100/1000 card and now it’s running at 52M download speed. ?????????

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Running Speedtest.net. Sposd to be one of the best.

Ha-ha! With KIS 2012 and Speedtest.net the fastest speed it has shown for my 10 Mbps cable line is 38 Mbps!

BATcher

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Running Speedtest.net. Sposd to be one of the best. Found this: Start, Run:gpedit.msc
Admin Templates/Network/QOS packet Scheduler
clk on Limit reservable bandwidth, enable, then change the % to 0%
I found an old 10/100 eth card and this helped speed it up, plugged in my 10/100/1000 card and now it’s running at 52M download speed. ?????????

Most likely this was a NIC or driver issue. The bandwidth reservation is only used if a specific program requests it. If there is no request then there is no reservation.

Joe

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Have you tried any other firewalls? I use Online Armor++with great success, and there is a free version. I like the UI much better than the Windows or ZA firewalls.

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Try the speed tests with the ZA Firewall set to its lowest setting, or Exit the firewall program altogether. Then report if there is still a slowdown or upper limit. I would have to agree that this looks like a computer or router hardware/driver issue, not a firewall issue.

-- rc primak

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