Computer Goes Really Slow When Downlaoding.....????

[mjdrogan]

Hi,

I have had this problem for a while now, when i download at even low rates of 100kb/s my computer goes slow. Video or music im playing thats actually on my computer, not streaming or anything, goes really slow and jumpy to the point its not even really going and not watchable. Also my mouse moves and freezes for a second or so, so becomes almost impossible to bear it.

It doesnt always happen, normally it occurs after my computer has been on for a while.

Today i was streaming videos of movie trailers etc... and with a network monitor i could see my download speed was 1.2mb/s and my computer was running fine, but then all of a sudden after having been on for a few hours it starts playing up and making my computer all jumpy!!!

From then onwards any internet action for example just opening a page on the bbc sport website makes my whole system jumpy, iTunes doesnt play smoothly, vlc wont play videos well etc....etc....

I havnt got too many programs running and it still happens.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2, i do regular Ad-Aware scans, spybot search and destroy scans.

My anti-virus is NOD32 2.7 and is up to date, my firewall, which doesnt make a difference to this problem if its on or off, is Kaspersky Anti-Hacker 1.9.37.0.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be the source of this problem?

Any tips will be much appreciated and welcomed.

Cheers

Martyn

[mjdrogan]

Any Ideas Anyone?

[Able]

Whenever you get a problem that manifests after a prolonged period of running time, it probably means 1 of 2 things. Either an overheating problem or (more likely) a program that is leaking memory. Try downloading with no unessential progs running and see if that makes a difference.

[mjdrogan]

Originally Posted by Able

Whenever you get a problem that manifests after a prolonged period of running time, it probably means 1 of 2 things. Either an overheating problem or (more likely) a program that is leaking memory. Try downloading with no unessential progs running and see if that makes a difference.

I have 1.5 gig of ram, so am not too short there, i dont fully understand what memory leak is, but i do try and have as few programs running in the background as i can.

It's not a temperature issue as i have HDDlife pro installed and monitor my disk temperature, which never really breaks the 40 degree C mark.

Could it have anything to do with low disk space, i have 115 gig hard drive which is fairly cramped for space, often with less than 5 gig in total free?

cheers

[Able]

That could indeed be the problem! More than 80% full can start to cause problems.