Questions tagged [speed]
Questions about optimizing your computer to take up less boot time, application launch time, download time, etc.
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Autonegotiated link speed different between devices using exact same cable
looked far and wide on the internet but could not find a solution to this totally ridiculous networking issue I'm having. Using an all-wired system with a Pace 5268ac with Gigabit internet from AT&...
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Slow Phone USB 3.0 Speeds on Windows 7, but not Linux
Phone: Pixel XL
Cable Used: anker powerline+ (https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Powerli.../dp/B01GN0M6NE)
When copying the same file from my labtop using linux i can copy in about 2mins (3gb movie)
On ...
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How can I increase my FTP upload speed on a single instance when in multiple FTP instances I'm fast
Here is my problem I have 20 Megabit/s upload speed confirmed on speedtest.net, and when I use my ftp on several settings I can only upload at 450 kilobytes /s or 3.6 Mbits,/s I get around that ...
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Computer speed is very slow due to drive C is full [closed]
How to deal with slow speed problem due to no space in hard disk. My C drive is almost full. Only 1gb left. Computer RAM is 8gb.
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Why does my NAS disk with 100Mbps NIC transfer at 30-40 MB/s?
I have a "Western Digital My Book World Edition II (white light)" bought in 2009 with two WD Green 1TB drives in RAID0 in my home network.
I recently turned it on after "several years of offlineness" (...
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Is it a good idea to disable "write caching on the device" in windows 7?
Is it a good idea to disable "write caching on the device" in windows 7?
Right now write caching is enabled (which was apparently the default).
I am working on a 90 pound weakling, a small Acer ...
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Speeding up apt-get install for many packages
I've noticed that much of the time taken by apt-get install when installing many packages / dependencies is due to many individual requests for packages / dependencies, even when the total download ...
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Can I increase the internal network speeds by upgrading my server?
It has recently come to my attention that a network application is not performing as well as it should over the network – compared to speeds of other setups and environments, our speeds are far below ...
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What noticeable effects do slow ping times have?
On a network that I volunteer to help maintain, I installed a router that (unfortunately) increases average ping times by almost double - from 17ms (average) to 30ms (average) - for 802.11n 2.4GHz ...
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4TB from HDD1 to HDD2 - usb3.0 hdd docking station - dual bay or two single bay?
right now I'm transferring 4TB of files from HDD1 to HDD2 both connected to the same dual bay usb 3.0 docking station (specifically this one). The file manager of my pc says "approx. 9 hours left".
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file transfer from windows to linux is slower than from linux to windows
I have a linux workstation connected directly through 10G to a Windows machine. Strangely, file transfer from linux to Windows is fast (600 MB/s) whereas file transfer from windows to linux is slow (...
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Increase file management dialog speed or response
On Windows, the keyboard shortcut for permanently deleting files is shift-delete.
When managing files on my computer, I find that often, I press shift-delete and then enter, only to find that the ...
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PHP File access very slow in windows
I recently noticed, that my development server set up on Windows 10 is slow as hell.
I did some debugging/profiling (Prestashop 1.6) with xdebug and culprint was file_exists. Script load time was ~43s ...
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Why is file copying to a usb 3.0 flash drive so slow but downloading straight to that drive 6 times faster?
I am faced with the following scenario: I have one SSD from which the OS runs off of and one usb 3.0 flash drive and a 7GB file I want to copy from the SSD to the flash drive. The file is downloaded ...
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Why is my HDD so slow on the "4K" speed tests?
What is wrong with my speed at 4K? Why is it so slow? Or is it supposed to be like that?
Is that speed okay? Why do I have such low speed at 4K?
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qbittorrent download speed affected by upload speed limit
When I set the global upload speed limit to 3KiB/sec, the download speed is about 100~300 KiB/sec, but I changed the upload speed limit to 30 KiB/sec, then the download speed increased to 5~8 MiB/sec.
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RAM upgrading tips
I am going to increase RAM size by add another DIMM in the 2nd slot of my motherboard. My concern is how to buy RAM online with exact voltage, speed, single or dual channel.
Will my mother board ...
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Poor internet speeds
I have an internet connection which the providers said that I will get 20 MBPS speed and minimum 10 MBPS it means I will have to get minimum 500 kbps download speed, but I am getting only 250-300 kilo ...
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Second HDD's read/write speed dropped suddenly
OS is installed on SSD and the second HDD is just a storage for games. I have it for 4-5 years already and never had a problem with it.
Sometimes I do benchmarks to monitoring my system's health but ...
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Samsung Memory Card MicroSDXC 128GB PRO Plus UHS-I Grade U3 Class 10 is only Writing at 23 MB/s. How come?
I have a Samsung Memory Card MicroSDXC 128GB PRO Plus UHS-I Grade U3 Class 10.
When testing it using CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0 x64 on Windows 10 using the Conceptronic Card Reader (product code ...
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Difference between downloading speed
I have ADSL connection with speed around 7.7-8 Mbsec. Monitoring traffic shows that on youtube i have all of that speed, but in other cases like torrents or game launchers i have aroud 700 - 800 Kbsec....
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Can a powerline reduce the internet connection speed of other devices?
"It seems" that my powerline adapter reduces the speed of other devices; I think is just a coincidence cause I was lagging one our ago and the test on http://speedtest.net was ok (so I think it gave ...
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How do I speed up a video by 60X in ffmpeg?
I found this example
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" output.mkv
but I have a video I want to speed up by 60 times, not just 2X.
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Can Internet speed decrease the further away a certain (server in a) country is from you?
Is there a general rule of thumb, per how many thousands km your Internet speed can naturally decrease and by how much? Something like "10 Mbit/s per 1000 km". (I've got from this SE answer that ...
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Why the downloading speed in Chrome is slow then it is using?
I am using my wifi and it is providing about 2-3 mb/s and Chrome is also using it whole but the while downloading something the speed downloading speed is in kb/s.
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Copying LibreOffice from DMG to local SSD takes 35 minutes - cp takes 3 minutes
Today I downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice for my Mac. After downloading, I opened the DMG file and copied the app-folder to the Applications. This took 35 minutes for a 700 MB folder. At ...
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What should I install to my C and D drive
I have two physical drives:
C Drive: HDD 266/372GB FREE
D Drive: HDD 328/542GB FREE
My OS is installed to the C drive.
Steam and Origin games are installed to my D drive, taking up around 210GB of ...
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Is there a performance difference between installing your programs and software in C drive and other drives?
I have a Dell Inspiron 5547 (running Windows 10), and I have 250 GB on my C: drive and ~110 GB on my D: and E: drive. I was wondering if there is any difference between installing programs on my C: ...
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How do I see the file transfer speed in Windows 7?
I just noticed that Windows 7 does not display the actual data transfer speed when copying/moving a file from one directory/disk to another. All it shows is a progress bar and their guess as to the ...
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Windows 10 internet significantly slower than Ubuntu 16.04
I seem to be having the opposite problem to most people.
Yesterday I switched from Ubuntu 16.04 to Windows 10 Home. I downloaded Steam and started downloading some games. My download speed peaked at ...
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One torrent file downloading speed is depending on the other torrent file which is being downloaded
Today I encountered a strange problem when downloading a new torrent file.
I had paused another torrent file with a healthy seeding list 2 days earlier (2 separate files). Today, when I am downloading ...
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Windows 10 PC wireless suddenly low download ok speed phone and tablet rebooted etc already
My three month old PC Windows 10 on a wireless connection began to show slow download speed last week. Now it crawls. Tablet and Phone speed used a same location are fine.
I have rebooted turned the ...
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How to speed up robocopy
I'm working with a Windows-7 computer, who needs to copy a lot of small files from the network (NAS). I used to do this using xcopy command, but due to a file lock problem, I've decided to start ...
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Internet speed not up to the mark [duplicate]
My internet package is 60mbps. When I check the speed of internet in my computer (which is connected directly to the ethernet port and the router) via speedtest.net (Ookla) its showing 60mbps which is ...
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Bluetooth 2.1 file transfer speed on Windows 10
I'm testing Bluetooth file transmission between Windows 10 hosts. After several tests I measured around 30 KB/s. I have also created a Winsock test application, and I achieve between 40 and 50 KB/s. ...
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Why is text line breaking—when cutting and pasting in the console—so much slower than in any other application?
I often work with Vim, but sometimes I feel that I can do certain things better in Kate. So I copy the file from vim via ctrl+c and paste it into Kate.
This way, everything is pretty fast. But if I ...
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why hard drive speed so low 1.75 mbps sometimes?
This is my motherboard
-"Biostar G41D3C Core 2 Quad Intel G41 DDR3 A&V&L MATX Motherboard"
Hard Drive
-Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500 Gb
Computer Information
-CORE 2DUO 2.80 GHZ
-RAM 2 GB
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What's the difference between GPU Memory bandwidth and speed?
I was looking at Nvidia's series 10 graphics cards' specs and noticed they have memory speed and memory bandwidth specified. Memory speed is expressed in Gbps and memory bandwidth is expressed in GB/...
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Windows Abnormally High Disk Usage / 100% Disk Usage
I have been experiencing an abnormally high disk usage on Windows 8.1 for a couple of months now that has greatly hindered the speed of my laptop, particularly when a process is retrieving memory from ...
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Laptop low cpu clock speed / multiplier
Couple of days ago i have noticed drops in the performance of my laptop. I couldnt stream a movie or surf web on more than one web pages without lag even though i have 8gb ram and ssd installed on my ...
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SSD: real read speed is half the specified one. Any idea why?
A few days ago, I bought a Toshiba Q300 SSD drive. I partitioned it (aligning partitions to multiples of 2048 sectors) and installed Ubuntu Mate.
According to this page, the "Sequencial Read" is up ...
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After Nvidia software crash computer is 3x faster?
Around 30 minutes ago my nvidia software/cuda crashed and it opened my default browser to the support page for nvidia. It asked me to restart Adobe Premiere as the "CUDA renderer" was no longer ...
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Why don't big PCs/laptops open as quick as small phones?
If I click a small button on the side of my smart phone, it starts, and I can do what I desire, within almost no time gap. But, to use my laptop, it runs--I am using windows--for a while after ...
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Router TP-Link WR841ND rapidly decreased the speed - How to fix it?
I bought a new router because:
my old one (Tenda W311R+) started to behave strangely -> just haven't shown the WiFi .. times to times, it appeared, but disappeared in a second .. it started with ...
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How to clean windows as if restarted?
Is there a way to make windows run as or almost as fast is if first started but without the need to restart it ??
I was thinking there must be a way of deleting all the junk and tmp files, cleaning ...
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How to set correct memory speed in BIOS
I recently purchased and installed a pair of Vengeance® — 8GB DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10) , these are now the only DIMMs in my system. (Asus P6T Deluxe board - CPU: i7 920)
According to the ...
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AMD Turion HP DV5 Laptop CPU speed throttled down to 0.8 GHz
(Possibly sometime) after upgrading to Win 10, my HP DV5-2144ca Laptop became sluggish.
Slow browsing experience, YouTube video lagging...
In TaskManager I've noticed that CPU speed is limited to 0....
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Hard drive slow down suddenly
My hard drive has become very very slow and I don't know why.
You can see the performance here:
sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: read(2097152) returned 28672 bytes
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Wifi 802.11n speed with router (TD-W8968) only 1MB/s? [duplicate]
Reading about theoretical and real world limits of Wifi 802.11n I should get way more than about 1MB/s speed out of my router. But I can't. And I wonder why.
As standard I have 5 devices at home - ...
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LAN speed not as high as expected
I have an FTP server which I'm accessing through another machine in the LAN, both machines are connected to a 300 Mbit/s router and both machines have a 10/100/1000 Mbit NIC.
With this setup I expect ...
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