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« on: November 04, 2006, 10:15:23 AM »
I was wondering if firewall software can slow down your download speed, or make your download speed faster.
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2006, 10:21:21 AM »
Quote from: AAdjuster on November 04, 2006, 10:15:23 AM
I was wondering if firewall software can slow down your download speed, or make your download speed faster.

yes a firewall can slow down your internet.

btw. welcome to the forum
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2006, 10:31:34 AM »
Quote from: AAdjuster on November 04, 2006, 10:15:23 AM
I was wondering if firewall software can slow down your download speed, or make your download speed faster.

yes and so can certain AV programs...eg: Avast
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2006, 10:55:19 AM »
Thank you for answering my question.

The reason i asked the question is, I installed Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 trial.
Since all of my testmy download tests have increased alot

Here is the latest test.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 8560 Kbps about 8.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1045 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/11/04 - 9:41am
Bottom Line:: 149X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.98 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 11.637 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 79.38 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-3MEP1TANZ
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If I uninstall KIs 6.0 and go back to using the windows firewall my down load speed drops about 1,000 Kbps.
I also tried this with F-Secure Internet Security 7.0 and the slower download speed occurs with this also.
But reinstall KIs 6.0 and the speed increases again.
I have cleared the caches each time I run the download test, and tests with KIs 6.0 installed are all consistantly higher.  Like the example above.

I'm using RR 8000/512 service.
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2006, 02:05:03 PM »
What are your advertised speeds?
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2006, 02:40:47 PM »
Quote from: AAdjuster on November 04, 2006, 10:55:19 AM
Thank you for answering my question.

The reason i asked the question is, I installed Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 trial.
Since all of my testmy download tests have increased alot

Here is the latest test.

:::::::::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 8560 Kbps about 8.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1045 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/11/04 - 9:41am
Bottom Line:: 149X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.98 sec
Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 11.637 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 79.38 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-3MEP1TANZ
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If I uninstall KIs 6.0 and go back to using the windows firewall my down load speed drops about 1,000 Kbps.
I also tried this with F-Secure Internet Security 7.0 and the slower download speed occurs with this also.
But reinstall KIs 6.0 and the speed increases again.
I have cleared the caches each time I run the download test, and tests with KIs 6.0 installed are all consistantly higher.  Like the example above.

I'm using RR 8000/512 service.
Increased? That's unusual. What are your advertised speeds?
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2006, 07:17:22 PM »
Depending on what you had before it could be that it is less invasive to internet traffic.. 

Most of the time you are going to see a slow down depending on the manufacture...
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2006, 08:16:41 PM »
Quote from: Ryan314 on November 04, 2006, 02:05:03 PM
What are your advertised speeds?

My advertised speed is 8000 download and 512 upload.

Sorry it took so long to reply, I just now got back home.
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2006, 09:39:45 PM »
Quote from: AAdjuster on November 04, 2006, 08:16:41 PM
My advertised speed is 8000 download and 512 upload.

Sorry it took so long to reply, I just now got back home.

Well you are getting extremley good download for a 8 down connection. What's your upload score?
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« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2006, 05:53:41 AM »
Quote from: Sparticus013 on November 04, 2006, 09:39:45 PM
Well you are getting extremley good download for a 8 down connection. What's your upload score?

This is the test I did just now.

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Upload Connection is:: 485 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 59 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2006/11/05 - 4:51am
Bottom Line:: 8X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 17.36 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 17.105 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 20.65 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-W0L2RQJYZ
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2007, 09:29:41 AM »
certain firewalls makes can affect download speed because they try to filter incoming and outgoing connections to your pc, maybe the reason why ur speed got high after installing kaspersky is because it might already remove spyware or viruses that is already in ur pc, oh and by the way be sure ur softwares is always upto date  angel
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2007, 10:51:43 AM »
Kaspersky Firewall is one of them! It eats so much of your download speed.
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« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2007, 01:32:37 PM »
I know that Zone Alarm reduces speed and also adversely affect the quality of voice through IMs.

Real life example:

PC1 has a zone alarm installed (PC1 is a mail server where emails are received into mailboxes).
PC2 is downloading email from PC1 over internal network (wireless).

With Zone Alarm active on PC1, the Download Speed to PC2 (bandwidth) is 30 to 40 kilo bye per second
With Zone Alarm disabled on PC1, the email Download Speed (Bandwidth) to PC2 is 500 to 800 kilo byte per second.
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« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2007, 11:49:05 PM »
Quote from: alriyadh on November 14, 2007, 01:32:37 PM
I know that Zone Alarm reduces speed

I've been using Zone Alarm for years and it hasn't reduced my download or upload speeds. I have performed tests with ZA both enabled and disabled. However, I will admit that this is a somewhat common complaint.
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2007, 12:05:17 AM »
alriyadh, welcome to the forum and we hope you enjoy your stay here. I use Comodo Firewall and it doesn't slow down my speed at all.
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