Hello,
I've been using win 8 and 8.1 for about two months now and have problems both with networking ever since - everything is very slow and unresponsive.
It's most obvious when using anything internet related, surfing is quite slow, facebook and youtube often don't work at all, gmail is really slow as well. I also get quite a bit of stuttering when playing flacs from a NAS drive.
It only happens in wondows 8 (and now 8.1), Windows 7 on the same machine is fine. Speedtest tells me both up and down speeds are about half of what I get using Windows 7.
I'm using onboard ethernet of my MSI z77a-g43. I've updated all drivers to the latest version. I've also tried using WIFI (with ethernet disabled) which seems to be a little more responsive but still has the same speed problems.
Someone on a different forum suggest running ipconfig /flushdns. Interestingly the first time I did it it helped and made internet surfing a lot faster but only until the next reboot when everything went slow again. Running the command now doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
I have checked if windows 8 is just using huge amounts of bandwidth for updating all those funky apps but even when there's no other network activity at all speeds are just as slow.
I really have no clue any more what to try next. ditching win 8 would be an obvious solution but I actually quite like the interface and would like to use it. Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance
I've been using win 8 and 8.1 for about two months now and have problems both with networking ever since - everything is very slow and unresponsive.
It's most obvious when using anything internet related, surfing is quite slow, facebook and youtube often don't work at all, gmail is really slow as well. I also get quite a bit of stuttering when playing flacs from a NAS drive.
It only happens in wondows 8 (and now 8.1), Windows 7 on the same machine is fine. Speedtest tells me both up and down speeds are about half of what I get using Windows 7.
I'm using onboard ethernet of my MSI z77a-g43. I've updated all drivers to the latest version. I've also tried using WIFI (with ethernet disabled) which seems to be a little more responsive but still has the same speed problems.
Someone on a different forum suggest running ipconfig /flushdns. Interestingly the first time I did it it helped and made internet surfing a lot faster but only until the next reboot when everything went slow again. Running the command now doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
I have checked if windows 8 is just using huge amounts of bandwidth for updating all those funky apps but even when there's no other network activity at all speeds are just as slow.
I really have no clue any more what to try next. ditching win 8 would be an obvious solution but I actually quite like the interface and would like to use it. Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance
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