Originally Posted by Renvales  |
| ...As far as the last thing you said e.g. "Avast!", my mind is a blank, lol. Run that by me again please. |
Just check your anti-virus software. Some AV softare has applications that check network connections as well as checking the file-system for incomming malware. If your AV software has such background agents, it might be worthwile to turn them off and test to see if it's them affecting your network throughput.
You also might want to download the latest network card driver. I'm assuming you're using the one built into your motherboard, and I think
one of these Realtek drivers would probably match the one on your motherboard -- I see they updated it as of 3Jan2007.
In fact, it might be worthwhile to also visit the Intel driver download site for your motherboard. I noticed the Bios was update in September, and the component driver pack was updated in December.
Beyond those, it might be interesting to download the latest Vana'bench software from
Playonline, run it in the high resolution mode (forget what it's called on the menu) and see how your computer fairs. Actually watch the test, and see how your computer reacts while in the very crowded scenes. If you see the framerate drop severely, you can eliminate networking as the primary culprit. If it goes very smoothly all the way through and scores highly, the problem is probably somewhere in your networking.