Welcome to cdfreaks 
Sorry you haven't received a reply yet. I'll try to help 
1/ What disc did you have in the drive when you ran Nero Infotool? Nero reports the speed it can read the current inserted disc at.
2/ Your drive can only read single layer pressed discs at 12x. Dual layer disc and burnable media will read at less than this, probably 8x.
3/ Use Nero CD-DVD speed to do a transfer rate test on your discs, to see what speed it will read them at.
Hope this helps 
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