Windows 8.1 & HyperV

**Seymour Butts** · 02-10-15, 04:46 PM

I've been playing this afternoon with HyperV

My present primary system is an AMD FX - 8350 Eight Core @ 4.01Ghz
32Gb Installed Memory 64Bit OS with 1 x 500Gb SSD and 4 x 4GB SATA's

I also run a standalone Dual Core utilised simply as a VPN downloader

So I build a HyperV terminal on my primary.
Gave it Quad Core / 4Gb RAM / 250GB HDD running Windows 10
Set it up as my VPN downloader with PureVPN as the Service provider

This is just a quick snap shot of my primary and the HyperV running speed test at the same time - (sorry guys just had a look at this photo and it's pretty ordinary, I'll try asd get a cleaner shot.

Is any one else playing with HyperV - what are your thoughts?

(Edit) - Sorry, not much better but gives a small indication

**enf** · 02-10-15, 06:02 PM

My 250 kb/sec ADSL2+ will only hyperVentilate............

**mickstv** · 02-10-15, 06:13 PM

Seymour, is that the best you can do on pureVPN ?

**Seymour Butts** · 02-10-15, 06:59 PM

No that's actually the slowest I've seen - but I had Pure set to Auto, usually I force it to the Brunei servers - I've Brunei and the Netherlands are actually the fastest.
I'll run a few tests and see what it comes up with

**Seymour Butts** · 02-10-15, 07:13 PM

This is about 'average' and while it seems slow, I'm still downloading full length movie in about 20 mins, always less than 30.

**porkop** · 02-10-15, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by Seymour Butts

My present primary system is an AMD FX - 8350 Eight Core @ 4.01Ghz
32Gb Installed Memory 64Bit OS with 1 x 500Gb SSD and 4 x 4GB SATA's

Now that gets me excited!!!!!!

**Seymour Butts** · 02-10-15, 09:49 PM

Everything is always for sale Porkop

**jwoegerbauer** · 03-10-15, 06:47 PM

Have you optimized your Windows 10 (Pro ?) settings concerning TCP before you started testing PureVPN's transmission speeds?

For example with a tool like the SG TCP Optimizer

which is freeware and available for Windows 10 too?

**Seymour Butts** · 03-10-15, 07:13 PM

No, too be honest I only stuck with Windows 10 for about 10 seconds.
Found it a total waste of space and too much of a control freak.
I ended up running three identical terminals 1 x XPPRO / 1 x Win7 and 1 x 8.1
and established very quickly that windows 7 offered the best download speeds
30% better than Windows 10 and perhaps 10% better than Win 8.1.

**jwoegerbauer** · 04-10-15, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Seymour Butts

I ended up running three identical terminals 1 x XPPRO / 1 x Win7 and 1 x 8.1
and established very quickly that windows 7 offered the best download speeds
30% better than Windows 10 and perhaps 10% better than Win 8.1.

Now I'm really confused: what has the computer's Windows OS edition / version (and also type of CPU, amount of RAM, etc) to do with "Download Speed"?

Always thought downstream / upstream line speed is dependent on many factors, such as firewall software, third party security applications, time of day, congestion on the path at the time, your ISP's backbone/connectivity, your allocated bandwidth, the particular node you're on, the state of the Internet at the time, latency, moon phase, etc. AFAIK also most 802.11n Wi-Fi certified devices will slow down downstream line speed to 54 Mbps if you use WEP or WPA/TKIP security.

Must admit I've only a little bit knowledge of "Networking".

**Philquad** · 04-10-15, 05:30 PM

man your pings high, mines 25
17mbs thats pretty good,
i doubt os has much to do with dl speed, but im just a dumbass
whats hyperv?

btw, way too many icons in the taskbar dude

**HBogard** · 07-10-15, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Seymour Butts

I also run a standalone Dual Core utilised simply as a VPN downloader

(Newbie here) - What exactly do you mean by a "VPN downloader" ? Are you using it for anonymous torrenting and stuff? I'm actually interested in this kind of setup myself.