THIS HAS ME SERIOUSLY CONCERNED!!!
I am running "SpyBot Search & Destroy" with its resident part, "TeaTimer", and AVAST! antivirus. I just ran AVAST! 'demand mode' against my whole harddrive in the "Thorough" mode (took 2 hours). I also just ran XoftSpySE. None of these programs find anything.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK "ANYONE" that does not see these delays (or even if you do) to perform the following and post their general results from their experience...
Right-click on the Windows Task Bar and select "Task Manager" from the menu that appears.
In the Task Manager window, click on the "Network" tab at the top.
Click on the View/Select Columns... menu.
Put a check in the checkboxes for:
Bytes Sent
Bytes Received
Bytes Sent/Interval
Bytes Received/Interval
Then click OK.
Position the Task Manager and Browser windows to be able to see these columns and the Browser at the same time (You can have the Task Manager window at the bottom, [even have the bottom of the Task Manager window off the bottom of the screen] so the line(s) of text showing these columns are at the very bottom of the screen and the browser window set to over lap the top of the Task Manager window... just so the byte counts can be observed as the Browser window is active). You may also want to adjust the width of the columns to be sure they are wide enough to see the whole counts... (click and drag the dividing line between the column headers).
The "Per Interval" counts will show the number of bytes transmitted and received over the 1 second interval between the Task Manager screen updates. The other two counts will be the sums of the per Interval counts.(they may include counts that were received before you started the display).
You might want to write down the total counts just to be sure of what you are seeing. The Per Interval counts will probably update faster than you can scribble them down so just watch them and get a general feel for the ratio of which counts are bigger per interval.
Now open one MLS forum window and watch the byte counts. Refresh the Browser window and observe the byte counts again. Try other MLS forum pages.
On MY PC, of the Per Interval counts I see the SENT to be sometimes as much as or more than the Received. I sometimes see counts as high as 40,000 bytes in both columns.
This is a NEW behavior for me to see. And I watch this stuff almost religiously! It used to be only a few hundred bytes sent for 40,000 to 50,000 received in one second. It used to be a 10 or 20 to 1 ratio of Received bytes to Sent bytes (unless I was uploading photos or videos deliberately).
Try the same things while reviewing data from other web sites. For me, other sites show "elevated" SENT counts from what it used to be, but not nearly as high as what I see on MLS and YouTube. The other sites I have checked are now running about a 2 to 1 ratio, but MLS and YouTube are closer to 1 to 1 and sometimes slightly more sent than received.
This may be the cause of the slowness we are seeing. Usually on a home Internet connection the data rate for SENDING is lower than the rate for RECEIVING. This difference in rates makes sense, because we are usually just sending minimal data to access large volumes of data... i.e.: we send a simple address and receive a whole page with photos, etc.
It kind of appears to me that my PC is sending an address, receiving a whole page with photos and then retransmitting the whole page and photos back to the Internet someplace and this is taking extra time to do the transmit and the page won't display until the whole transaction is done.
I am not saying the problem lies within MLS since I see the same problem with YouTube and some similar problems with other sites, but I am saying that something seems to be definitely different and I think it is "wrong".
HELP! Anybody?!?!?
