Nearly nonexistent upload speeds

SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
edited May 2008 in Science & Tech
All righty there gurus, I'm officially baffled...

To my knowledge, nothing at all on my computer has changed prior to this issue cropping up. I just suddenly noticed I had NO upload at all. I'm on a 10/1 connection, and all speedtests, uploading photos to Flickr, etc, show that while running in normal mode (Vista x64 Ult), I have a zero upload speed. This also appears to be happening on my laptop in its Vista copy, which is odd. However, both seem to work just fine in safe mode - I get right around the 10/1 values on tests run while in safe mode w/ networking.

IRC folks had me trying netsh commands all night to no avail, and I don't see anything in my msconfig that I think doesn't belong there, but here I am all the same, groveling at your feet in the hope that somebody has some tiny trinket that can help me...

I first noticed the trouble maybe a day, day and a half ago, and it was noticed through my router/network; I've since disconnected the router and jacked directly into the modem, and no dice.

I'll be at work all tomorrow, but will check in and try to report any answers I can remember while there.

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2008
    I'd say you've got a firewall turned on somewhere. If you can post messages, send emails etc... then you are uploading information, which means there is an outbound port being blocked at some point.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    AVG's "web shield" is disabled, Windows Firewall is disabled, and I haven't knowingly installed anything else. Any tips what I can check?
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    Vista is good at not actually disabling anything... try editing the traffic that will pass in the firewall. Maybe something got set by some install or something?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    Aren't these speedtests running over the http protocol anyway? Wouldn't that be the least-likely-blocked port?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2008
    I can guarantee you your uploading, regardless of what your traffic monitor is saying. Do you have an FTP server you can connect to at work and test?
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited May 2008
    Uh, I'll give you access to my ftp if you need it.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    Oh I know I was uploading, I was just saying - normal traffic like that is routed over HTTP when I post to the board, for instance, but the same protocol to do a speedtest was giving me nothing, and for instance, my flickr uploadr was completely dead.

    Either way, Windows Update finally let me install SP1 and it fixed itself... so I guess I'll never know what it was. Thanks guys.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    Snarkasm, in the future, for really large Windows updates such as service packs, go to the MS site directly and download the files to your local hard drive rather than installing remotely from MS. That generally works much better.
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