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Matt997
By Matt997
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So, decided to do a test today to see why my LAN was slow. I did this by removing my BITDEFENDER software and just let windows software take over. It decided to almost give me full speed when doing file transfers 900MB/s I have a 10G network card ran with fibre to switch. With the software running I only get 110MB/s what would be causing the issue in the software any one know. If you may know a software that would not throttle the connection would be great. 

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25 minutes ago, Matt997 said:

So, decided to do a test today to see why my LAN was slow. I did this by removing my BITDEFENDER software and just let windows software take over. It decided to almost give me full speed when doing file transfers 900MB/s I have a 10G network card ran with fibre to switch. With the software running I only get 110MB/s what would be causing the issue in the software any one know. If you may know a software that would not throttle the connection would be great. 

Windows defender is plenty fine. No real reason to use other AV software.

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Windows Defender is good enough the vast majority of the time.

 

If you insist on running a third party antivirus, my go-to recommendation is Sophos. They have a free home version available with limited, unobtrusive ads, it's relatively light on system resources, and it uses the same definitions as their enterprise product.

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6 hours ago, Matt997 said:

If you may know a software that would not throttle the connection would be great. 

Yes, it is called Linux 😀

No anti-virus needed and there aren't any viruses.

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and if you want a companion for windows defender, simplewall is a great open source firewall, to control the windows filtering platform link

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