Updates slow down Windows XP & download speeds

Hello all:
I am having the same issues with Mac OSX. I have high
speed cable and contantly acheive speeds of 260k per
second download speeds on an unpatched XP pro machine.
On my other machine, I installed all of the updates. As
with OSX, windows I have found has taken a massive
performance hit as a result of all of the security
updates applied. On the same cable these speeds dwindle
down to only 50-60k per second. I cannot find any
threads or support pertaining to this issue. It appears
that performance on these platforms is being sacraficed
for security. Any ideas...? Thanx.

Shenan
Thu Jul 15 01:28:19 CDT 2004

Mr. Niceguy wrote:
> Hello all:
> I am having the same issues with Mac OSX. I have high
> speed cable and contantly acheive speeds of 260k per
> second download speeds on an unpatched XP pro machine.
> On my other machine, I installed all of the updates. As
> with OSX, windows I have found has taken a massive
> performance hit as a result of all of the security
> updates applied. On the same cable these speeds dwindle
> down to only 50-60k per second. I cannot find any
> threads or support pertaining to this issue. It appears
> that performance on these platforms is being sacraficed
> for security. Any ideas...? Thanx.

I have access to the following speeds at home:
- 256/256 DSL (down/up)
- 1024/256 Cable Modem (down/up)

At home I get the maximum speed up and down consistently from certain
sites/places bot on my Mac OS X OS machines and Windows XP machines on
either connection type.

At work, I have access to Dual OC-3 lines to the Internet and cannot say i
have ever achieved what would be maximum there - but who cares? heh

Essentially, what I am saying is that I cannot fathom it being the patches
you have installed that is slowing down your connection. While some patches
have been known to do that before being revised and "fixed", none should
have that lasting affect. Now firewalls and antivirus software and the
likes can make the connection slow down because of their nature of checking
data as it is tranferred, so if you are seeing slower speeds, these could,
in fact, be somewhat the culprit - but that the decreases you claim, that
would mean something is badly configured.

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