tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/problems/8472-tenfourfox-one-half-speed-downloading-and-uploading-compared-with-safariTenFourFox: Discussion 2017-10-06T16:38:43Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/436760792017-10-05T21:28:38Z2017-10-05T21:28:38ZTenFourFox one-fifth speed downloading and uploading compared with Safari<div><p>I attempted to enable add-ons singly, the ones not requiring a restart first, running SpeedOfMe after each enabling.</p>
<p>Strict Pop-up Blocker caused about 10 percent reduction in download and upload. I then added Bluhell Firewall. Internet access speed dropped dramatically.</p>
<p>I disabled Bluhell Firewall. Access speed continued to drop. I disabled Strict Pop-up Blocker. Access speed continued to drop.</p>
<p>Verifying the problem remains a TenFourFox one, I ran Safari. About 5 percent slowdown upload and download. It is 3:25 PM Mountain Time on a Thursday. I attribute this slight speed loss to people using the Internet during business hours.</p>
<p>I add an exclamation point to what the heck is going on, and why?</p></div>tlancektag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/436760792017-10-06T16:17:00Z2017-10-06T16:38:43ZTenFourFox one-fifth speed downloading and uploading compared with Safari<div><p>I removed the Firefox folder from USERS folder and deleted TenFourFox.</p>
<p>I installed FPR 3 and immediately went to SpeedOfMe. First test showed download speed in the middle eights (850 Mbps) and upload speed about 875 Kbps. Subsequent tests showed access speeds reverting to terrible despite TenFourFox having zero "baggage."</p>
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<p>I removed the Firefox folder from USERS folder and deleted TenFourFox.</p>
<p>I installed the less current FPR 2 and immediately went to SpeedOfMe. First test showed download speed in the middle nines (950 Mbps) and upload speed about 875 Kbps. Subsequent tests showed access speeds reverting to terrible despite TenFourFox having zero "baggage."</p>
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<p>So here's what I confirmed. SAFARI consistently reports access speeds Blackfoot's DSL package is intended to yield.</p>
<p>TenFourFox's best test showed download speed 9.35 Mbps and upload speed of 860 Mbps - about 75 percent of SAFARI. This occurred on the first test of newly installed FPR 2. Subsequent tests were less quick, tests reverting to problem areas. FPR 3's first test when newly installed was about ten percent lower than that of newly installed FPR 2. Its subsequent tests showed the identical pattern of results being progressively worse.</p>
<p>Latency for newly installed FPRs, however, consistently matched that of SAFARI - that is, 27-80 ms. Latency for TenFourFox as I had been using it with add-ons enabled showed delays between 75 ms and 5128 ms.</p>
<p>TenFourFox as I had been using it with add-ons enabled had none of the hitches and glitches when I accessed any of my SAVED on-disk TenFourFox documents, regardless the number I opened simultaneously. This uneventful performance remained consistent.</p>
<p>My TenFourFox problems are not hard drive problems or system problems or Internet problems. I've tested and/or fixed everything I can think of.</p>
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<p>I have run DiskWarrior and TechTools Pro to repair and optimize the drive. No severe problems found. Disk had not been severely fragmented. In effect, the drive showed routine usage.</p>
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<p>I just shot the last arrow in my quiver. I switched start-up drive and ran SpeedOfMe on the drive's TenFourFox FPR 3 and SAFARI. Results are consistent with those of my primary hard drive.</p></div>tlancek