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NRL
Citizen
Username: Nrl
Post Number: 699
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 5, 2004 - 8:53 am: |     |
I have never run across this one before. May be someone can help.
recently I noticed a sudden slowdown on my cable modem connection. IE takes a little longer to open up and my web pages delay as as well. Also , when I click on links it seems I have to click on them twice to activate the link. Overall everything online seems to not respond as quickly as before. The hard disk is healthy , the delay just seems to happen online. I have run spybot, adaware and spy doctor. They all found some things that I deleted but the problem still persists. I also hav AVG virus protection. I also reset my cable modem, restarted my PC and my router.
Any suggestions? |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 3741
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 5, 2004 - 12:29 pm: | |
Has the speed at which you are being connected decreased? If so there may be a problem with your connection line. Check with your cable provider if this is the case.
Have you checked your system resources when you are on line to determine how much free memory you have? You may have added additional programs or functions recently, running in background, which are demanding more of your computer's resources than previously and slowing down your internet connection functions. |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 251
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 6, 2004 - 6:46 am: | |
What I might do is to press CTRL-ALT-DEL and go into the Windows Task Manager. See what processes are running. It could be some malovelent process running in the background and gobbling up some computing resources.
Also, you may want to temporarily install a firewall like Zone Alarm... it will control access to and from your computer and the Internet. It will tell you if something you do not expect is accessing the Internet.
Hope this helps....
Marc @ millburnweb.com
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Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 48
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 11:15 pm: | |
I don't know if you use a wireless router... did you move anything around recently that might affect it?
...shooting in the dark... |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 6288
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 7, 2004 - 8:46 am: | |
A point from the very non-techy BobK:
The more people online in your neighborhood, the slower the cable speed since this is a shared line. I will leave it to the tech types to explain why, although it is noticeable at our house.
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Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 126
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 8, 2004 - 10:54 am: | |
check too to see if you have something that has a pop up blocker. many times a website will have a link, and you click on it and it is supposed to open up a new window. But, if you have a pop up blocker installed, many times it won't open the window, or it will stutter trying to find out if the pop up is requested to be open or just some silly ad.
Your post was before the deployment of XP service pack 2 which adds teh default pop up blocker to IE, so I doubt that is the problem, but you may have some other software blocking pop up ads. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4059
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:50 am: | |
Visit http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Perform one or two tests. Never mind the fact that it is called dslreports. It's good for testing your cable modem.
Tell us what speed you get.
Another test is to download the Opera web browser and see if things are still slow. http://www.opera.com
I think something is slowing down your computer, not your connection. But I could be wrong.
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sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 1585
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 1:51 pm: | |
There's a lot of nasty spyware, adware and viruses around slowing down a lot of computers these days. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 234
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 10:16 pm: | |
sac said: "There's a lot of nasty spyware, adware and viruses around slowing down a lot of computers these days."
Hmmmm, I've never had problem with those nasties on my Macs, come to think of it...I've never had that problem on my computers running other OS platforms either. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4063
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 12:47 am: | |
It's just a matter of time, monster. Mac OSX is getting popular, and the hackers must be learning to understand it well. I agree that OSX is an excellent choice, but let's not be smug. (Not that you are.) |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 144
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 10:19 am: | |
Microsoft writes bad code because they have no incentive to make it good, being a monopoly. Apple, on the other hand, has to make everything it makes near perfect, which it does.
Virus and trouble-free since '96.... 8 solid years of watching others suffer needlessly. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4070
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 10:33 am: | |
What you say is true, Dave. There is another factor, however, which is that Windows is the biggest target, making it the most rewarding for malware writers. That may change soon. Also, OSX is built on Unix, which is very well understood already and easier for hackers to learn than OS 9 and earlier. |
Albatross
Citizen
Username: Albatross
Post Number: 66
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 3:25 pm: | |
I wonder if hackers and virus writers use the same virus / spyrus software we do...
Or if not, how do we get theirs? They wouldn't write viruses that coopt their own programs.
...just interesting to think about. |
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