Questions tagged [speed]
Questions about optimizing your computer to take up less boot time, application launch time, download time, etc.
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Setting up profile for Aer V3 for Fan Control by Pherein TO SPEED up the fan
It is really hard to gain control above the fan speed in laptop.
I have Acer V3-571G i-3110,Nvidia 630GT. I want to speed up a fan.
Program: http://www.ratedsearch.net/rated-file/rs5ef9b4f8hfi0#
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Enabling super speed on USB 3 ports
I finally bought a USB 3 handy drive, hoping to take advantage of the speed of the USB 3 ports of my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15R 5520).
The USB port is USB3 (blue inside). The Handy drive is a ...
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Web connection speed issue
I encounter a strange issue with my web (wireless) connection on my laptop (Ubuntu 11.10)
I'm able to have 540kbps (down) on all computers in my house (including laptop at the same distance from the ...
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How to detect if a hard drive is in PIO or DMA from command-line, or programmatically?
I work for a company that has many machines around the world in the possession of customers that we need to get continuous diagnostics from. One of the issues is occasionally the hard drives of ...
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Wireless speed drops significantly over time
Using my Acer Aspire 5750 at school my wireless connection speed will drop from around 4 Mbps to .30 Mbps. The speed will start out fine from startup and degrade over time. This happens only at school,...
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Sempron 3500+ never clocking up (always at 800MHz)
According to CPUID CPU-Z and Windows Vista resource monitor the AMD Sempron 3500+ (1800MHz) in this Packard Bell Easynote SJ51 is never clocking higher than it's lowest speed. It's running at 52C so ...
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Fireworks running slowly, objects disappearing from animation
I created a simple animation in Fireworks, but it apparently has disappeared. A small sphere which appears in the first frame (or state) is visible. Although it is supposed to start moving, it however ...
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Different RAM Speeds (Same Hardware)
I've got 4 DIMMs of RAM (GSkill Ripjaws), they are supposed to run at 1600Mhz. When I check the speeds, my BIOS tells me that slot 1&3 are running at 1600 and 2&4 at 1333. I tried to set it ...
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Speeding up Connection Between Computer and Wireless/Bridged Router
I looked through other questions, but didn't find useful responses.
Our main computer has a dl speed of 6 Mbps, but some of our other computers are getting only 40-200 Kb!
The router is wireless, ...
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300Mbps wireless router but extremely slow speeds
I have a TP-Link TL-WR840N (which claims to be a b/g/n 300Mbps WiFi router) connected to Wimax modem and to a PC using one gigabit port. When I send or receive files from other devices (Android ...
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How can a torrent be downloaded faster than the speed of my Internet connection?
I have a 256 kbit/s connection and normally see download speeds around 30 kilobytes/second.
However, sometimes when I download torrents the download speed shows as 1.1 MBps. How is this possible?
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Should I expect a speed increase if I change from aluminum to copper wire for VDSL2?
I've a VDSL2 service, over my existing telephone line, the line is almost 15 to 20 meters long from the demarc to my house, with an extra 10 run inside the house to the modem, this were the stats ...
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Ethernet falls back from 1 Gbps to 100 Mbps randomly
I am on Windows 10.0.19045, 22H2. Motherboard has Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller. Router is ASUS RT-AC66U. Both network interface and router are 1 Gbps capable. Connection is a wired ethernet ...
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Check Max Thunderbolt 3 Speed
How do I check the bandwidth (max Gbps) of my Thunderbolt 3 port? I'm trying to see if it can handle supporting 4 additional monitors with my Wavlink docking station (so that I can get either 1080p/...
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NVME slowed inexplicably
I have a Linux box configured with the OS on an NVME drive "/" and separate physical drive contains "/home".
I was having what I thought was diminished performance so, looked at ...
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the right tool and the right way to measure network throughput
I am confused with different results of different tools
here is what speed-test.net tells
London, UK 87.48 ms 0.0% 404.94 Mbps 931.82 Mbps M247 Ltd - London
Manchester, UK 114....
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slow vpn tunnels speed on high speed network
I have some VMs with minimum network speed of 1G
I need to connect each VM via a split tunnel.
While the raw speed between VMs are 1G but over the tunnels , the speed is down to 10% of the max speed (...
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Optimizing Post-processing Workflow with FFmpeg for Janus Playrecord Plugin
I hope you’re all doing well. I have a question regarding the post-processing of recorded files using the Janus playrecord plugin. Currently, after the recording is done, I end up with two .mjr files (...
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Computer running slow/weird. I'm not sure what the issue is
I have an OMEN 30L Desktop PC GT13-1000a. I've had it for about a year, playing videogames as well as doing schoolwork, and its been running very well up until recently. I have certain problems that ...
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Network interface still negotiates 10 Mbps link when computer is down
I have a PC (Windows 10) that, when powered off, still negotiates a link with the switch at 10 Mbps.
As soon as the host is up, the speed is renegotiated at 1000 Mbps.
I was wondering what this was ...
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My download speed is throttled to 90Mbps both on WiFi and LAN
I have a 400Mbps connection, yet my computer only achieves around 90Mbps on various online speed measuring sites.
While this could be attributed to the fact, that the house itself were connected to ...
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After I upgraded to DDR4-3200 32 GB on a MAG X570 MSI, I'm getting a double beep... but everything works fine
This is a strange situation for me.
I'm building a machine for my wife, and since it uses a compatible motherboard (identical except MPG instead of MAG), I'm also passing my old DDR4-2400 to her and ...
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One computer has much lower internet speed than other devices
A few days ago I had new internet connection installed – 100 Mb/s and my phone, my iPad and one laptop show on speedest.net around 90 Mb/s, which is great. Only one laptop shows around 15 Mb/s, ...
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Wi-Fi speed is substantially less than my router speed
I recently had my speed increased to 250Mbps by my ISP. When I checked it with a number of speed checkers using an Ethernet cable it was indeed correct. However when I tried it on Wi-Fi sitting next ...
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Is it possible to have Firefox use more than 1 CPU core in Windows?
According to the Microsoft Windows Task Manager, Firefox tends to just use 1 CPU core for most of its processing.
When a system isn't running any foreground tasks besides Firefox, this leaves much ...
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Is there a way to Manually Control Fan Speed for my HP Pavilion Gaming 15 ec2xxx?
I've a HP Pavilion Gaming 15 ec2xxx with an AMD Ryzen 5600H and a GTX 1650 GDDR6.
I'd like to manually control my fan speed but I can't find anything working.
I tried with Notebookfancontroller but ...
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Is my connection speed okay?
I have a so-called ADSL2+ connection with this characteristics displaying in my zyxel modem page:
noise margin downstream: 9.6 dB
output power upstream: 12.2 dbm
attenuation downstream: 34.2 dB
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same ffmpeg preset got way slower in X265 compared to a year ago - why?
If I compare several ffmpeg versions, the speed got down by 50% even with the same encoding profile "medium" so I wonder what the change was. That change happend any time in summer 2021.
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HDD running at extremely low cache speed
Since a few weeks ago my HDD has been extremely slow when reading and writing data from it. I have an internal SSD that runs the main Fedora 34 root system and home, a 500GB internal HDD that has ...
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Run a RAM speed test
Is there any way to test the actual speed of the RAM to know how many gigabytes per second it transfers data? I'm on a Windows machine, so solutions based on that would be nice, but if there is ...
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My mac and my PC don't show the same download speed
I recently installed fiber optics in my home and when I did some tests with nperf I noticed that while connected to the same wifi and placed next to each other, my Mac and my PC didn't have the same ...
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How to fix playback issues in VLC with a MKV file after slowing it down with ffmpeg
I ripped some extras from a DVD that are basically image galleries to MKV. They play way too fast, so I slowed them down using ffmpeg like this:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter:v "setpts=64*PTS"...
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My scale factor is affecting my speed on Windows 10
So, whenever I adjust my scale factor, 200% for example. It'll get slower. If it was set to 100%, then it runs perfectly smooth. Im confused as to why this happens. As of writing I'm using VirtualBox ...
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I bought a fast, refurbished laptop, but some Windows features are super slow
I've asked Reddit and Quora, but with to prevail. I thought I'd I consult here before I try and talk to Windows tech support or just send it back.
Anyways, here's the situation: I recently bought a ...
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Very low random IOPS reported on SSDs
I have two Samsung SSDs in my computer, an 840 Pro and 860 Evo, reporting very low random IOPS numbers, about 1/5 of the nominal, connected via a SATA3 interface, using an i7-3770K CPU in a P8Z77-V ...
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WAN is faster than WLAN even though it's an additional step
Yep, the title is right. My WLAN connections are unbearably slow, I'm talking 10 kbps. I have done many tests and tried to find the problem, including trying this on different computers and changing ...
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Upload speed capped at 100 Mbps only in LAN
I have a 500 Mbps Internet plan in Kazakhstan.
In the wired connection, I have full 500 Mbps duplex to local (the same city) Speedtest servers:
However, testing to servers located outside of my ...
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Download speed is super slow after reinstalling Windows 10
Speeds I used to get before were somewhere around 1,5MB/s. My top speed now is 20KB/s (I tried downloading with multiple browsers).
Download speed in various applications has no problem with reaching ...
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Internet speed poor in Normal Mode, good in Safe Mode
I am experiencing poor internet speed in Normal Mode and good internet speed in Safe Mode. Others have reported this as well, but in my case internet speed remains good when rebooting into Normal Mode ...
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Internet Speed Tests
I've recently had fibre broadband (FTTP) installed (900mbps/100mbps). One thing I've noticed which doesn't seem to make much sense is the results of speed tests.
As above my connection is now 900mbps ...
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Significantly lower download speeds than peers while torrenting
As you can see in the picture attached the average download speed I'm getting while downloading a torrent is 1 MB/s while my maximum limit from my ISP is 6.5 MB/s. One of the peers as you can see (...
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How to deterine why an internet connection is atypically faster or slower?
Sometimes, at single location, when nothing has changed with local hardware or software, internet throughput will be notably faster or slower.
The first step, I have found, is to test on a wired ...
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How to use a USB Switch effectively? Data Transfer etc
This is my first time posting here, so feel free to correct me if I do something wrong.
I am currently trying to optimize my workflow during the time of home office etc. I had the idea to use a usb ...
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Windows 10 "Save As" dialogue takes a long time to come up
I am running Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 17 that's only a couple of months old. Most things run blazingly fast, with one exception: Whenever I try to save a document (either from the web or from within ...
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Why RAMDisk file copying of lots of small files slower than on SSD?
I'm very confused with results of copying folder with around 10 000 small files (250 MB total size):
Copying from SSD to the same SSD (850 Evo 500GB) took 35 seconds.
Also for info CrystalDiskMark ...
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Why the speed of my processor is reduced?
I have a motherboard model D865GLC, it is an old computer that needs an upgrade to use like a office worker or basic school, it has 4gb of ram, graphic tarjet agp8x of 64mb and pentium 4 2.20 ghz, I ...
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How do I slow down file transfer between drives?
I recently got a 2tb drive and I made the mistake of assuming the drive was working fine and moving a lot of my files onto it. I tried to move some of the files back to my original drive, but I ...
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USB Drive Writing speed is so slow
I have a 32gb sandisk usb drive. Today when i tried to copy some of the movies to my USB, it was so slow. I mean always the speed goes below 500kb. I used the drive even yesterday. I have faced no ...
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Why is the download speed so slow while sharing a file over my home network?
I am trying to transfer a file having size of 700 MB from one of my PC at home to another PC which are both connected to the same Wi-Fi hotspot. It boasts of having a download speed upto 150 Mbps. But,...
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Why is my internet speed slower on my PC than my Laptop
I have a Gigabit switch
and through it i connected Cat6 cable to my laptop and the speedtest gives me around 260mb/s which is the appropriate speed
but when i connect the same cable to my PC which ...
