Is it a modem/router you have ? well I do not think they ever show up in device manager.

As of setting up network in Vista I am at loss

Quote from: bearIs it a modem/router you have ?

A Netgear DG834v3.

I dont see what IPv6 has to do with any of this since they (4 and 6) are completely and totally seperate protocol stacks on the first gen windows implementation.

Nextgen windows TCPIP prefers v6 and framing and the transport layers are shared but 6 will only ever be used if an ipv6 address is used or passed from an application

Slow web browsing may be down to pisscalis traffic shaping or poor transparent web caching server management

Quote from: MarkI dont see what IPv6 has to do with any of this since they (4 and 6) are completely and totally seperate protocol stacks on the first gen windows implementation.

Nextgen windows TCPIP prefers v6 and framing and the transport layers are shared but 6 will only ever be used if an ipv6 address is used or passed from an application

Slow web browsing may be down to pisscalis traffic shaping or poor transparent web caching server management

its an issue i see at work quite often with slow browsing.  Vista gets all screwed and cant decide what its doing with internet traffic.  When it happens you remove IPv6, reboot and it then just works.  

^ Didnt work here.

Im beginning to suspect Pisscali are indeed behind this.  sh*te speeds ever since "BT worked on the line" the other day.

I think Ill migrate to Plusnet or something.  Shame really because I was 100% loyal to Nildram before this...  

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/120629951346205331248.html

How the hell can my up be faster than my down?........

 
 

Have you the latest for your modem ?

ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/dg834v3_10Jan07_vista_3_2.zip

Here you have manuals etc.

Yes, all up to date.

Sod this... Im down to 495 BYTES per second...  :-(

Sounds a bit like a IP profile problem to me how is your line attenuation and noise margin since the change?
 
I would suggest trying to run running http://speedtester.bt.com/ and see what its set at but it seem to be down at the min.

Might be worth getting onto your ISP again and ask them what your IP profile is set at.

Thanks - do you mean IP addresses?

Quoteline attenuation and noise margin

How do I find them?

Quote from: MarkI dont see what IPv6 has to do with any of this since they (4 and 6) are completely and totally seperate protocol stacks on the first gen windows implementation.

Nextgen windows TCPIP prefers v6 and framing and the transport layers are shared but 6 will only ever be used if an ipv6 address is used or passed from an application

Slow web browsing may be down to pisscalis traffic shaping or poor transparent web caching server management

You cant really remove IPv6 from Vista. You can only disable it half assedly in the registry and by unticking it in connection properties. You can uninstall from XP no bother though

IPv6 isnt causing the issue here at all, its usually caused by shoddy setup (Not yours!) and programming - eg if you have an IPv6 route to the internet that is not up, as that will be tried first and then timeout. Buggy web browsers like mozilla displayed this behaviour a few versions ago - I dont know if they have fixed this yet? And the sites involved need to have an IPv6 address for this to even become a problem (Which would make sense as you would have people complaining that xyz is fast whilst abc is slow)

If you run sh*tty linux or awesome BSD you can check for ipv6 routes with a ip -6 route.

For some reason in conjunction with ICS having v6 enabled seems to have a problem on some vista machines pre-SP1 but only after a certain amount of time - it isnt even a regular amount of time that you could attribute to something like re-arping happening, its total random times like 15 hours and incredibly annoying.

Managed to start speedtester... its been running for 1hr 35mins - is this normal?

I dont think so - takes about 1 minute to run here

No 1hr 35 isnt normal should take 2 or 3 mins.

You will find line attenuation and noise margin under Show Statistics on the Router Status page of your router.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/IPprofile.htm has info about IP profiles and how it affects your connection.

Ive been with Tiscali for around 3 years and they have been great. On ADSL 2mb up untill a month ago, now Im on upto 8mb ADSL MAXX and i had about 2weeks of intermittent problems  and now its perfect again.

Apparently its normal to have around 10days of dodgy connection on the MAXX upgrade while the line tests for the most stable speed, could you have been upgraded to this ?