Internet slow, sort of

[chris-red]

Something strange is happening, normally I have lightening fast internet but recently sometimes web pages with take ages to load up or not load up altogether. The strange thing is my downloads are un affected, they are still lightening fast and when it throws a wobbly and will not load pages I can still ping the big name web sites.

Any ideas?
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[CaNsA]

What A/V u using?

What add-ons do you have in your browser?

If you have the AVg firefox addon that will kill ur browsing speed

[chris-red]

Not using an AV the browser is chrome,


For all those people who will comment about not using AV, I haven't used one for well over 2 years, in that time I have had one virus and that was because my sister using my PC. I believe being savy about what you look at and click online is better than any Anti Virus.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[Charlie]

Are you on 50mb Virgin cable? We used to get shite speeds which fluctuated a lot with them last year. The 10mb we've got now is much more stable but slows down a bit at peak times.

Try running a trace-route and seeing where the 'slowness' is occurring?
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Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[chris-red]

Good shout I will a trace root much time it slows. It is 50mb virgin, I can't work out why the web browser is slow but downloads are fast.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[CaNsA]

I get sweet speeds all day except at 430pm facebook and other popular sites crawl.

Maybe you have a virus......

[iooi]

[quote="chris-redI can't work out why the web browser is slow but downloads are fast.[/quote]

Cache full.... Tme for a defrag and clean out of old files, maybe.

Could also be that you are maxing out your bandwidth with the download. Which will cause surfing to slow.
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[chris-red]

Right had another slow down, I and WFH on citrix and it is fine, but using the net is painfully slow and it will not load some pictures

Here is the trace root

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Chris>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.230.112]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 8 ms 12 ms 10.14.176.1
2 9 ms 15 ms 7 ms popl-core-1b-ge-500-1440.network.virginmedia.net
[62.255.161.73]
3 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms popl-bb-1b-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.174.238]
4 15 ms 17 ms 60 ms manc-bb-1a-as3-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.252
.192.157]
5 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms manc-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253
.187.178]
6 22 ms 21 ms 27 ms tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.
163.70]
7 93 ms 52 ms 21 ms 158-14-250-212.static.virginmedia.com [212.250.1
4.158]
8 26 ms 49 ms 24 ms 209.85.255.175
9 21 ms 28 ms 22 ms 209.85.251.62
10 22 ms 20 ms 20 ms 74.125.230.112

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Chris>
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[chris-red]

The other thing is randomly it will not load a page, 9 times out of 10 a refresh will bring the page up instantly.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[Charlie]

Maybe try running Pingtest.net? Also I'd recommend the official virgin media forums
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Past: Honda x8rs, Honda City fly, Honda Hornet 250, Honda VFR750, Yamaha xt600e.
Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[Frost]

Sounds like a DNS issue. Try openDNS. It gives you an annoying custom 404 page but works well otherwise.

[GhostRider]

My Internet is not behaving as it should either lately. Downloads using my newsgroup client vary between 40-500kbs, whereas normally it would be 1500-2000, web pages were also noticebly slow, but I ran a speediest and it came back as 10mb (I'm on virgin 20mb) so it should still be running at least 1000. I thought it might be to do with my wireless router as it us seriously anal about it's position in relation to the speeds I get, but then if that was the case the speediest would have been affected as well. My router and modem are reset daily, I've cleared the cache and now am out of ideas. It's annoying.

GhostRider
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