Very slow internet speed on Windows 7

[itwalksamongus]

Hi,

I've recently started using Windows 7, and the internet speed is painfully slow, it maxes out at about 70 kb/s. I've been on this connection for a few years now, and have 3 XP computers hooked up to it that get normal (900 kb/s) speeds as always.

My Windows 7 is a pretty clean installation, apart from Office and a few other standard things it's not been clogged up with a lot of programs. I have read many threads about this issue on other sites and whirlpool, and I have tried everything suggested, but the speed is as slow as ever, both with wireless on and turned off (the Win 7 is the PC connected to the modem). I have the latest firmware for my Netcomm modem, and installed the latest LAN driver on my motherboard.

Can someone please help?

My specs:

IBM/Lenovo Thinkcenter
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+, 2GB, 160GB 7200RPM S-ATA HDD, no diskette drive, PCI/PCIe Tower (4x4), NVIDIA GeForce 6100, DVD Burner, Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet, Netcomm NB6+4W

thanks,

itwalks

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

so this is the result from speedtest.net? also whom is your ISP?

[itwalksamongus]

Hi, thanks for the reply, here is the speedtest result:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1072715547.png

But in real life I have never reached this speed on this computer. Like my post said, I'm happy to get over 100kb/s. Even web pages take a long time to load, especially ones with photos/pictures.