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google sync == poor performance

$tinkle

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Feb 12, 2003
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on chrome, i have verified that being signed into my browser makes my searches & general navigation slow. anyone else been stung by this 'feature'?

"don't be evil" needs to be "don't persist my browsing"
 

$tinkle

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after doing a whole raft of speedtests on various devices, i'm thinking it's not teh google
 

$tinkle

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mystery solved.

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^^^^^^
wtf?

well, when you have a corp computer, but are not connected to their LAN/VPN, it tries to connect/map drives for a few seconds, fails, re-tries. however, when it re-tries, it does NOT clean up failed connections, in essence doing a DDoS on your modem/router (concurrent speedtests on other devices had identical results).

so, the solution is to turn off network discovery & do not allow corp drives to reconnect at logon.

can anyone with network background explain to me why an ever-increasing number of distinct connection attempts happens? can my local domain be configured to move on to another port only after closing the failed connection?