Dell Inspiron 14R Owners Need Your Help!

I just received my 14R with Windows 7 64-bit and found Internet download problems with it....

Downloads from the Internet always stuck in the middle, tried using IE and Firefox with the same results. In order to avoid problems of the outside Internet then I conducted another batch of file copying exercises within the local network:

1) Copying file to/from a NAS using Windows's "Copy" command, the transfer rate keep over 95Mbps (very fast, fully utilize the 100M Ethernet link)

2) Using FTP or SCP for file copying from the same NAS, transfer rate dropped to less than 8Mbps.

I suspect this maybe related with OS or drivers so I downgraded it to Windows XP - XP drivers are difficult to collect but I have a full function set now, the most tricky part is that you have to splitstream Intel HM57 AHCI / Chip set driver into the XPSP3 install CD before you can install XP in the SATA drive. I carry out the same set of tests under Windows XP and everything WORKS JUST FINE. However, the 100M LAN cannot fully utilize under XP, file transfer rate can only up to 75-80Mbps for both "Copy" and FTP / SCP operation.

I would like to know any owners of 14R can test and confirm the Internet download issue as well as slow transfer rate using FTP / SCP kind of Internet file transfer protocol see if it also exist in your machine or I have to return mine.

 

na i m using idm n these things r working fine............

 

Problem identified as due to Windows 7 tcp autotuning feature not compatible with my very old router.