Vodafone mobile broadband

Xbigman

I've purchased a laptop with Vodafone mobile broadband built in. It's working and the test claims the signal strengh is 71 and the speed is 7.2 Mbps (which I think is good) but it runs like an arthritic slug. IE 90 seconds to download a webpage that takes 6 seconds via virgin broadband.

Does anyone have any idea's why its so slow?
Regards



X

PS I'm running McAfee internet security with Vista.

Jemma-T

7.2 Mbps? I'd be amazed if you were getting that.

What do the specs here show http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk ?

PS I'm running McAfee internet security

Terrible software. Vista already has plenty security software in-built and you can add a free anti-virus like BitDefender www.filehippo.com/download_bitdefender

troublefree

i have the same i think like a contract laptop mine is, i struggle sometimes dependant on where i am with it but mine is generally ok, speed test is a good idea i use the one built into bittorrent but it give me a decent reading

clickclash

Xbigman wrote: »

I've purchased a laptop with Vodafone [url=http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband
]best mobile broadband[/url] built in. It's working and the test claims the signal strengh is 71 and the speed is 7.2 Mbps (which I think is good) but it runs like an arthritic slug. IE 90 seconds to download a webpage that takes 6 seconds via virgin broadband.

Does anyone have any idea's why its so slow?
Regards

PS I'm running McAfee internet security with Vista.

Thats quite fast for [url=http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband
]mobile broadband[/url], webpage loading that slow might have to do with how much is running on your laptop instead of mobile broadband. I might trying turning off a bunch of bacnground programs (maybe including macafee) or download cleaning programs such as CCleaner or malwarebytes and see what they find.