Desktop pc using wired, and wireless connection simultaneously

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spyware blaster can affect browsing performance as IE has to scan numerous restricted zone entries before serving up your pages - of spurious benefit as avast blocks bad sites too.

Sas also installs bloat. anvir task manager may also slow things down if it is running at boot.

You don't really need to do manual scans with a resident scanner, it will pick viruses up on access, and manual scans with malwarebytes etc will also make avast scan the file too.

Even allowing or overheads, encryption, and interference, 24m wireless should be able to manage a 14m throughput, but wired will always be more consistent.

Missli

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spyware blaster can affect browsing performance as IE has to scan numerous restricted zone entries before serving up your pages - of spurious benefit as avast blocks bad sites too.

Sas also installs bloat. anvir task manager may also slow things down if it is running at boot.

You don't really need to do manual scans with a resident scanner, it will pick viruses up on access, and manual scans with malwarebytes etc will also make avast scan the file too.

Even allowing or overheads, encryption, and interference, 24m wireless should be able to manage a 14m throughput, but wired will always be more consistent.

I don't use IE (its carp), I use Opera. I do not install any unnecessary programs, and disable start-up items, and I run my scans on a Sunday so very little interference.

Anvir I find helpful, not a hinderance so will keep running. None of these make an impact on my pc, have checked. My netbook runs fine with the same set-up plus ad-muncher!

Happy enough now anyway, as my original question was answered. My speeds been gradually increasing all evening. I think it was where the router was placed. My house is an old one (1940's), and the router is behind several brick walls; although my netbook picked up, my cheaply refurbished desktop didn't!