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  1. Exactly! And the key here is that most people probably have this problem but do not even realize because it is only those who do heavy multimedia streaming that have a visual indicator. The average user who is just browsing the web is probably having heavy latency problems with Website Blocker enabled but would never know it because the problem is very much behind-the-scenes. Thus, most people will not report / complain about this and it just us poor unfortunate souls that have heavy traffic devices that have to cope until it somehow affects all web users.
  2. If I didn't have the HDHomerun Prime network tuner (an HDTV 3-tuner system), I would never have known there was a problem. My work computer with the same issue has no network devices so there is nothing obvious that lets me know there is an issue. Running the DPC program is the only way someone without a high traffic network device like my HDTV tuner.would know there is even an issue. It is possible that your audio streams aren't as traffic-intensive as running a networked HDTV device moving 10-15mb/s and that is why you never knew there was an issue. I didn't see the pixelation issue I experienced with the Prime all the time; it came and went for the most part.
  3. That's funny because I had said in my mea culpa post that it turned out that both types of NICs actually caused Red spikes for me and it was only that MBAM turned off the Website Blocker at some point during my tests that I noticed any change. But if you are seeing Red spikes at all, Firefox, then it means you are also experiencing the same problem with Website Blocking affecting latency as everyone else (you just may not see it in the forefront if you aren't using a network video/audio device). I have a networked TV device that exhibits a latency issue because of this and others must have some network audio device where they experience a similar trouble. Thanks for running the test, however!
  4. Sorry folks - wrong again. I thought that was all she wrote, but when I looked at the MBAM tray icon after writing this post, I found that at some point the Website Blocker was DISABLED during my tests. I enabled the Website Blocker again with the Wired NIC disabled and found all Red Spikes during the DPC Latency Checker scan. Thus it appears that both kinds of NICs can be to blame and the number of them enabled does not matter. There must be something else that causes these latency issues for some people like myself (since the March database updates) and not for others, but I do not know what it is yet.
  5. Actually I did an experiment at work and found that it is not about having 2 NICS enabled. It is about having 1 Wired NIC (ethernet) enabled. I first enabled Website Blocking and ran DPC Latency Checker. Then I disabled the Wifi NIC and just ran off the Wired NIC and still had Red spikes / high latency. Then I disabled the Wired NIC and just ran off the Wifi NIC and it was smooth sailing for quite a while. Once I re-enabled the Wired NIC, the Red spikes came back and I am fairly confident in my conclusion. Thus, those people who only use their Wifi NIC should not see a latency issue when using Website Blocker and testing with DPC Latency Checker. It is only those people who are using a Wired NIC that will see problems with that conditions and it doesn't seem to matter the number of NICs just as long as one of them is Wired. Anyone care to confirm my experiment?
  6. How many NICs do you have on your computer, trparky? I have a theory that those of use with 2 NICS (I have 1 Wifi adapter and 1 ethernet card for my network Cablecard tuner at home and 2 at work and both machines have this problem) are the only ones who are experiencing these laggy problems which started for me after updating the MBAM databases on March 7th or 8th.
  7. Have you also run DPC Latency Checker on your computer with the latest MBAM database updates? When I run it on my work computer I also get the big red spikes with Website Blocking enabled and don't get them when I disable that feature. So I am 2/2 in terms of having the Website Blocking feature slow down my computers and would imagine that this problem is very universal. It's just that most people do not realize there is an issue without having a visual confirmation like a network TV recorder. I mean I wouldn't have known if I didn't get the pixelated video beginning in March. Thank you.
  8. I was wondering if you could look into the websites and specific IPs that were added to the database updates on March 7th or 8th to see if any stick out as a possible cause to all these latency issues. My Prime tuner and Website Blocking had been working great together for 6 months prior to March so I would imagine there is something very specific that was added on those days that one could point to. It's hard for me to imagine that all of a sudden some x number of blocklist sites pushed it over the edge when I am sure there were a lot on the list before the March updates. Thoughts?
  9. Hope I am not stating the obvious, but my pixelation issue with my HDHomerun Prime (network Cablecard TV tuner) started around March 7th or 8th, and appears to be related to a database/definitions update and not a main program update (I had the latest 1.70.0.1100 installed since December). As suggested earlier, disabling the Website Blocking feature fixes the pixelation issue for me which I actually discovered by troubleshooting this on my own (after trying everything else I could think of for days and days). I am confident that it is a database change because I reinstalled MBAM 1.70.0.1100 but did not update the databases right away (so they were over 100 days old) and enabled Website Blocking but did not have the pixelation issue on my network tuner. Once I let MBAM update the database, the pixelation issue returned and I once again disabled Website Blocking to fix that. Not sure if you were aware of that fact about the database updates or not, but I wanted to share my story as well. Just something to look into. Thank you!
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