Hi, only me lamenting again

I am trying to set up a new laptop, 64-bit Win 10 job...

Yeah, mostly OK, but I have noticed that when I'm downloading (drivers, etc) the download speed
is often very slo-o-o-w It has a 30-day trial of Nortons security suite installed. If I try the same
downloads on my own computer (roughly equivalent in specs) that does not have Nortons, the speed
is about 5~10X faster. (BTW, an OOKLA test shows all pretty good.)

Is this just an alias effect, or does N's really take that much out of the performance?

I can't wait (end of 30 days) to ditch N's and just use Win defender. - I might not wait, yet!