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| Thread ID: 138344 | 2014-11-16 21:51:00 | Slow connection to websites | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 1388151 | 2014-11-16 21:51:00 | I get between 5-10 Mbs download and 1Mbs upload speed at my g/f's place, and a bit better than that at my house. My problem however is that either place, lately it's taking up to a minute to connect to almost any website. Once connected, no problem, and down and uploading stuff are at speeds completely acceptable to me. It seems clear to me that something on my computer is causing this strange delay in hooking up to a site. Running Win 8.1 with all updates done semi-automatically, and done the usual malware/anti-virus etc checks. Any ideas please? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1388152 | 2014-11-16 22:59:00 | What ISP are you using ? We had similar with Vodafone / Telstra, changed the DNS on the router to Googles DNS servers and problem went away. Details here (developers.google.com) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1388153 | 2014-11-16 23:04:00 | What AV are you running? Ive seen AV browser plugins cause all sorts of issues . Try defaulting/resetting IE (through control panel) If you have McAfee , Norton or AVG, try removing them . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1388154 | 2014-11-17 23:40:00 | I'm using Flip at home, & was Spark here and now Flip here too, same probs. My AV is Bitdefender. My browsers are Firefox and Chrome. I'll try the suggestions , thanks. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1388155 | 2014-11-18 00:47:00 | Yeah, I have the problem that Greg is describing as well. When I moved into the new place in June the internet performance was real sweet. In the last two months, the web page browsing seems to have a time delay in it whereas downloads are fast and normal. Nothing has changed in my setup except MS updates I think. I believe the ISP's are making normal DSL look bad so that people will want to swop to UFB. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1388156 | 2014-11-18 01:10:00 | Kaspersky did that to me when I tried it so it could be the AV as others have suggested. Try disabling temporarily, and maybe just try IE as a comparison also. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1388157 | 2014-11-18 01:31:00 | Yer I would get rid of Bitdefender | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1388158 | 2014-11-18 02:05:00 | Hi all, Normally I would stand back and watch these efforts, as I am though long established to be able to drive a computer, I am far from being as good as say Speedy, or Wainui, BUT here is what has happened to my W 7 2 gb ram 500 gb h/d when we were facing this move into a retirement/resthome, which we have done successfully no fibre had arrived out on the street here. Spark ( Telecom ) pointed out that a router might only last 3 years, so when we moved, Spark supplied a new Thomson Router which has " copes with 56 mb/ps " and sure enough even Spark in helping set up the router were surprised I was getting 46 m/ps from the same copperwire set up I had had,previously. Remarkably enough I even did a speed test at the busiest time of the day and week and still got 40 m/ps, copper wire and no ultrafast of any kind available, this to the point that I will not even remotely need the speeds offered on fibre, ever ! Surely the router in Greg's case can be replaced and negate the slow speeds effie c |
effie c (6856) | ||
| 1388159 | 2014-11-18 05:30:00 | I've been having that off and on lately and we are on fibre, its mainly this site and Linkedin that have been slow to load. Its quite random running Win 7 with firefox | gary67 (56) | ||
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