Windows xp network utilization low

I have previousy used a LAN connection via powerline interfaces which aso showed very low network utilization too so I suspet the problem is with XP rather than the Wireless N connection. Any ideas would be much appreciated! Join our community to see this answer! Unlock 1 Answer and 8 Comments. Andrew Hancock - VMware vExpert. See if this solution works for you by signing up for a 7 day free trial.

What do I get with a subscription? With your subscription - you'll gain access to our exclusive IT community of thousands of IT pros. You can choose to scan the following actions:. You can also diagnose various categories in addition to the networking actions, including mail or news service, computer and operating system information, modems, network clients, and so on.

You can save the options you checked so that the next time you use the Network Diagnostics program, you use the same options. Viewing the Local Area Connection status With the Status dialog box, you can view the speed of your connection, the length of the connection, your IP address, the subnet mask, the default gateway, and other information. The Control Panel appears.

Double-click Network Connections. The Network Connections dialog box appears. Right-click Local Area Connection and click Status on the pop-up menu. Off the hook! Thanks a million! It must have taken you hours and hours and hours to find a solution. First i realy want to thank you for this. Man I have had this issue for a long time.

I thought that I have tried everything to pickup my LAN file transfer speed and nothing worked. Till now. Even large files transfer in seconds. Thank you very much for sharing this info. I'm sorry, I've tried all the solutions, unfortunately, my problem continues.. I have 3 PCs. PC1 is our server PC with a practice management program.

I have mapped the drivers of the 2 workstation PCs to the server PC for full access of the program read and write. I have turned off LSO and network speed has improved but only when one workstation is on at a time, when both workstations are on, network speed is slow.

Does anyone know what else could be the issue? Have I mapped the drivers wrong? Do I need to reset my modem? Wow, changed settings in the middle of a copying files. Estimated time started at over a day and dropped to mater of about 20 minutes.

Worked great make sure not to forget the reboot. Tried looking for this option on my windows 8 machine, and don't see the options listed under the advanced tab when I double click on my network adapter, could it be stashed somewhere else? Called something else?

Any ideas? Thank you sooooo much. Now I just need that fast speed out of my wifi. Is there a trick to that too? It worked for me although in my case the v2 options were already set to disabled and the non-v2 option "large send offload IPv4 " was enabled. I don't see Large Send Offload. HELP my speed is only a few kbps. I have something different - "Task Offload" in my Atheros L1 Gigabit card, Should this be done on both computers or just the sending one? Assumed both. Thank you so very much.

Its working as if my network is on Steroids. I have a NAS connected to my network and only the top folder would connect and the rest of the folders would take up to 15 seconds to give me the log-in window, now, it doesn't even take a second.

I appreciate you writing this up! It appears to be the answer to my problems as well. The only question is, I have workstation Is there any way for a Group Policy to be made for this so that I don't have to visit workstations? The Offload setting fixed my Windows copy speed! Funny though, if you use a different copy manager like TeraCopy, speed was pretty good. This worked "like a charm Quote from "Santoxthanksyou" above "! Thank you I followed your steps exactly for both computers the third suggestion, the one that worked, the "LOS" option -- didn't even have to re-boot but will do it anyway before this put the transfer speed "on Steroids Quote from "Brian" above.

Thanks for posting this. I had to both disable LSO and enable jumbo frames to get the performance improvement, but importing a CD now only takes a couple of minutes. I get to step 5 and instead there is no list of options under the advanced tab Just a button "nvidia Ethernet configuration" which when I open it lists some options but not the LSO option I can't seem to fix my problem.

I tried all 3 options but the speed just around k. I tried to get into the network adapter setting and find the "Link Speed" is set to "mb Full Duplex", so I set to "1. Some time ago I experienced a slow connection when transferring large files. After I disabled large send offload on my networkcard killer e gigabit ethernet controller ndis 6. Since yesterday I have a slow connection again. I didn't install something new and LSO is still disabled. Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance,. Thank you for the info. I really helped was struggling with slow lan for 4 days nothing helped but these changes made wonders.. Can't believe this.

Saved the day for me. Thanks a lot for sharing the solution. I was transferring data over LAN between 2 laptops one of which is Windows 7 and another is Windows 8. I tried ll your suggestions to increase speed. I just wanted to chime in and express my gratitude for this solution. Ah finally i found a solution! Starts of at or so. I tried these without much luck. Turned on autonegotiation and bingo. I think I might owe you something huge for this, but have nothing to offer. This brings about the end of a very long-term frustration.

Many thanks for this post. You deserve an award or something. Thank you very much. It was one older computer on our network that was slowing down other resources. After disabling LSO on that station it has helped all around. I did the opposite. I enabled Jumbo Packets, the largest size.

That fixed the problem. However, my case is special. I am downloading over a university campus LAN. If you have that service running, check this article on how to remove it. Thank you, thank you and thank you. Any ideas how to fix slow speed transfer over VPN?

I know to some degree the speed is reliant on the VPN provider. Waiting anywhere between 12hours and 18 hours is way to slow for a 20gig file. I am getting speeds of kb or less. Very slow. Check this article. It has quite a few suggestions on how to fix slow VPN speed. For years I struggled with slow speeds thinking that it supposed to be like that.

Thank's heaps. It might help you steer into right direction. For example, the answer has the following information about "Jumbo Frame" :. If users enable both of them, the driver automatically chooses Jumbo Packet. Now both directions work. What a stupid feature.

Thanks so much! The large send offload was my problem too transferring files between Windows 8 computers, only in one direction wireless to wired. Now I'm maxing out my wifi again. My file transfer speed over an ethernet cable was awfully slow. About 25kbps. I did 'netsh' change and it boosted up to 8mbps. Then I advanced and did the 'ipv4 and ipv6' changes on both of my laptops.

But as soon as I opened another folder in the file explorer of my sending laptop, the speed dropped to around 46mbps, and the laptop started lagging and hanging. When I let things get stable, everything was back to normal. After everything, I reverted the settings everywhere, to avoid falling prey to anything fishy, should a problem decide to approach me in the future. Thanks for this article, though, I wanted the transfer speed to be above mb but it became better after following the steps provided in this article.

Well anyhow thank you VERY much! In the Select Columns dialog box, you can add or remove any of the 25 available statistics by selecting the adjacent check box and clicking OK. For more information on these features, see the Networking Overview section of Task Manager's Help system. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry.

When it comes to viewing network statistics, there are a number of utilities that you can use, including the Networking tab in Windows Task Manager.

Many administrators overlook this tool because the default display doesn't provide much valuable information, and administrators often don't realize that they can alter the display to get more specific details. To do so, follow these steps: Right-click the Taskbar and select Task Manager.