Strange problem

[Carson Dyle]

I just built a new system: ASUS P8Z77-M PRO, i5-3750K, 16GB RAM, Samsung 830 128GB SSD, Windows 7 Pro x64.

I have my old system running (six year old ASUS/AMD/2GB with WinXP Pro) until I've fully transferred data, software and settings over to the new computer. I stay connected to it using remote desktop and can still run any software on the old computer that I like.

On the new PC, when I connect to Newegg, pages load kinda slowly, mostly the larger images. But what is _really_ slow are the Image Gallery photos. It doesn't vary - it's not slow one minute and then it's normal later on - it's always slow. It does this in both browsers that I've tried so far, Chrome and Firefox. I'm running no AV on this computer. So far, it only appears to be Newegg; other sites are fine.

I can have the same Newegg page open on the old PC, click into the Image Gallery for a product, and the images load quickly. In fact, I can step through three or four of them before one image loads on the new PC.

Any idea what's going on?

 

[kbp]

For giggles, try the microsofts 64-bit IE and see what happens.
If this does in fact work better, I would be changing the cache settings in both of the other browsers and try again.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Thanks for the suggestion. But no, it's every bit as slow in IE x64.

I just timed it in IE, to give you some idea - 52 seconds to load one of the Newgg gallery images.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Disabling the 'Winpk Filter Lightweight Filter' in the Local Area Connection Properties seems to have cured the problem. Is that a standard Windows 7 component, or was it installed by some application or other?

 

[Carson Dyle]

I'm pretty certain now that it was the ASUS Network iControl utility for my P8Z77-M PRO motherboard that was f**king everything up. I think that's also what may have installed the Winpk filter. I've disabled iControl and networking is completely back to what I'd normally expect.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Disabling the 'Winpk Filter Lightweight Filter' in the Local Area Connection Properties seems to have cured the problem. Is that a standard Windows 7 component, or was it installed by some application or other?

Yes, that's not a normal component of a stock Windows 7 install.

 

[othermike27]

Wow - this one has been driving me crazy for several weeks!

Same problem: rebuilt one of my systems using an ASUS P8H77-M mobo with Core i3225, 8 GB mem, Samsung 840 250 GB SSD and an old HDD, Win 7 Home Premium x64.

Newegg thumbnail images took forever to load, as did the thumbnails on the Magellan's (travel gear) site. I noticed some other odd behavior on others sites too, but not sure if everything traces to the same cause.

Anyway, today I opened up the NIC properties on my laptop, my rebuild and my other system and started comparing things. The rebuild includes 4 items that the others don't: 3 related to Realtek protocol driver, and the suspect Winpk Filter. I figured I would Google each to see what I could learn. Fortunately, I found this thread with the first query. Disabled the Winpk item and everything now runs as it should. Woohoo!!

OP, how did you figure this one out? Just by trying different settings, or what?

BTW, this fix also seems to have solved another puzzle I noted with the NIC: when I accessed the device through the Device Manager and tried to change any of the advanced properties listed, I could toggle the settings (enable/disable) but none of my changes would stick after OKing out of the box. That is, no matter what I did, the setting reverted to original. This was of interest because web searching turns up many cases of slow performance (page loads, file transfers, etc.) with recommendations to disable this or tweak that. Very frustrating when you can't try them out.

Anyway - thanks again!
Mike

 

[othermike27]

Disabling Network iControl also solved another issue I had with very slow file transfer speeds on my LAN from the subject machine to any other. Transfers to the machine were as fast as anywhere else on the network, but the only way I found to bring up the speed of transfers _from_ this machine was to disable IPv6, which Microsoft cautions against doing for unexplained reasons.

However, when I disable Network iControl and enabled IPv6, everything transfers as fast as I would expect.

Next will be some interaction with ASUS to see what they have to say about this behavior.

 

[frednat]

I couldn't understand why I was getting slower download speeds on my wired connection to my desktop (2.5 mpbs slooooow) than on my wireless laptop (6mbps).
Disabled Network Icontrol and wahey get 7Mbps (still slow but much better).

Thank you!