Comments on: Vista Bug - sucking up bandwidth

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:58 +0000

I’ve experienced the same thing kicking my kids off World of Warcraft by monopolizing all the bandwidth available. Come on Microsoft fix this bug and cause it to download first.

By: ehtisham

ehtisham — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:51:23 +0000

Hello!
I faced the same problem in my XP Prof. Ed. SP2, maybe this might help:
http://www.mobile-pedia.com/?q=Software/WinXPBandwidth

By: secure email

secure email — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:16:47 +0000

Well let me begin by saying that Windows Vista is a HUGE let down in my opinion and i’m sure for 90% of it’s users. My girlfriend and cousin just recently bought computers exceeding the requirements for the OS to work properly by a significant amount and the damn thing slows both systems down significantly in comparison to XP. Loading times have increased and just browsing around has also suffered in decreased speeds. I am still awaiting my copy over the mail now, however, after fiddling around my girlfriend’s and cousin’s computer I am fairly certain that I will not upgrade for another year. I am just sad for the people that went out of their way to purchase this junk.

By: Jon S

Jon S — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:58:53 +0000

make a comment about a Microsoft product on your blog? I am not sure I want to go down that road….

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:54:24 +0000

As much as I’d love an opportunity to bash Vista, I wouldn’t be so quick to jump on the blame wagon here.

Almost any program that downloads will use all the bandwidth available to it. Download a file with IE or FF or download updates to any program out there - they will all use up all the bandwidth they can.

That’s not to say Vista didn’t cause the crash, but if it did I would think it would be due to something else - like opening up too many TCP connections or something (not likely given XP’s TCP connection limit which I assume is in Vista as well). Even more likely is that it was just a combination of a huge file download, poor QoS rules, a crappy modem/router, etc.

It’s also possible it was getting a poor connection or something and the router got flooded when there is no timeout on reconnect attempts.

Weird that our roles have switched. Usually I’m the Vista basher.

I would like to see if anyone else has had these problems, though.

By: james

james — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:05:20 +0000

I have been using Vista for a while now without noticing this. Check out my program for seeing what process is actually using this bandwidth