Rampage IV Formula - LAN Problems

[Macchiavelli198]

Hi everybody!

This is my first post so please be lenient.

My setup:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Service Pack 1

Case: Cooler Master HAF X
MB: Rampage IV Formula
CPU: Intel Core i7 3930K
Ram: 16 GB Corsair
SSD: Samsung SSD-830 256 GB
PSU: Enermax 1000 Watt
Graphics: Zotac Geforce GTX 580 Amp!2
Plextor BluRay Drive

I am not overclocking anything right now - standard setup

I have updated my Bios to version 3404 after using 3301 for quite a while. After updating my bios I thought it could be good to update all system drivers as well to get a little more performance without messing around.

So I updated the Asus AI Suite II and the Lan Drivers and now every time I start the computer i see that the pc is searching for an internet connection (which has not been the case before updating) and my internet connection is quite slow (i have 100/10 Mbit by UPC Austria) - i noticed that when I was downloading a 10 GB file via JDownloader - normally my connection was at least 4 or 5 MB/s but after the driver and bios update, the speed is initially high but decreases rapidly to 250 KB/s in total.

Does somebody know what my problem is? The lan driver? The Bios update? The AI Suite II update?

Where should I start?

I have already deleted windows and reinstalled it - with the newest drivers possible and I have still the problem.

Thanks for any hints!

[HalloweenWeed]

Macchiavelli1984 welcome to the forums.
First let me say that the way you are measuring your "bandwidth" appears flawed, it may not have changed at all, but instead just the local bandwidth conditions of your ISP. And it sounds like you installed Asus update, that will contact the Asus servers upon startup of the OS.

And secondly, most of us have abandoned Asus Ai Suite and Probe II. Copied-and-pasted from my notes:

Asus Ai Suite locks up when running LinX/IBT, for 2sec. or more (maybe minutes) at a time. When LinX/IBT runs at peak it almost never updates temps/fan speeds. It also installs a Windows service called "AsusFanControlService" that sometimes don't uninstall when you uninstall Asus Ai Suite. Asus Ai Suite and "AsusFanControlService" is known to interfere with other temp/speed monitoring utilities. I had to manually edit it out of my registry before I could banish it from my SSD (after a full reboot); on one of my computers. On the other it uninstalled properly removing "AsusFanControlService" from my services. It appears that "AsusFanControlService" interferes with SpeedFan, as it was erroneous before I got rid of "AsusFanControlService." Perhaps Probe II uses the same "AsusFanControlService," IDK, I've never tried to use Probe II without Ai Suite installed.

[Nodens]

AsusFanControlService is also known to cause network related issues:)

[Macchiavelli198]

Okay thanks.

It has definitely nothing to do with my ISP - because I can test my bandwith on their website and I usually reach 98 Mbit / 9.8 Mbit - so almost the nominal value of my package.

In JDownloader before the updates everything used to be really fast - as said before normally at least 5 Megabyte / s download speed - now I only reach that for a couple of minutes then the speed drops.

I have tested Jdownloader with Bios 2105 (my bios 2) and Bios 3404 - both with the newest lan drivers and AI Fan Control manually disabled - with the new bios i hardly reach anything beyond 500 KB/s with bios 2105 at least some time higher speed.

Do you guys use the newest Intel Lan drivers or do you still use the 16.6.0.. something version?

Initially my setup was fine, but now with the newer drivers which ought to have improved stability my setup is a mess..

[Nodens]

Macchiavelli1984 wrote:
It has definitely nothing to do with my ISP - because I can test my bandwith on their website and I usually reach 98 Mbit / 9.8 Mbit - so almost the nominal value of my package.

That shows absolutely nothing. You are testing speed with the internal network of your ISP or if the testing machine is outside their network (which I doubt it), a designated host. That just shows that you have that speed in relation to the above only. Nothing else.

In JDownloader before the updates everything used to be really fast - as said before normally at least 5 Megabyte / s download speed - now I only reach that for a couple of minutes then the speed drops.

The question is where do you download from? JDownloader is just a nice download manager (I use it too for some things) but it is entirely unrelated to your speed by itself. Your speed depends on these things:
a) The host's (where you download from) upstream speed.
b) The routing between you and said host (if a router on the way is eating packages due to network issues then your speed will fluctuate or drop).
c) Traffic congestion. (How many sockets are there open? Can your routers, switches, etc handle the load? I your upstream close to max?)
d) Other things like things injected into the TCP/IP stack, malfunctioning router, a cable going bad etc etc

I have tested Jdownloader with Bios 2105 (my bios 2) and Bios 3404 - both with the newest lan drivers and AI Fan Control manually disabled - with the new bios i hardly reach anything beyond 500 KB/s with bios 2105 at least some time higher speed.

That service can cause an issue because it's currently bugged. There are no issued with the Network and the UEFI versions though and the GBE firmware has been the same in all these versions. Something else is your problem most likely entirely unrelated to the board/hardware.

Do you guys use the newest Intel Lan drivers or do you still use the 16.6.0.. something version?

Yes. I have absolutely no network issue.

Initially my setup was fine, but now with the newer drivers which ought to have improved stability my setup is a mess..

This is either a coincidence or the driver is corrupted.