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2ndRow

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Question about net connection thru XP
« on: May 28, 2006, 10:18:49 AM »
Ok...

Lately my browsers and e-mail have been sluggish as *censored*.  I have cable connection with Zone Alarm firewall.

Ran anti-virus (AVG and eTrust), Ad-Aware and SpyDoctor as well as a registry check.

When I start up GAIM it runs fine, but the browser and e-mail takes forever to render a page/e-mail and when it does finally do it, it goes in "spurts".

I already uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and Thunderbird as well.

I am stumped...

any advice?
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2006, 11:31:52 AM »
About 2 months ago, my son's computer got to the point it would not display a web page in IE.  If he opened IE, it simply displayed a blank page.  We determined the OS partition on his partitioned hard drive was getting quite full.  He moved My Documents from C:\ to D:\, freeing up some space on C:\ and then his web browsing returned to normal.  
 
How much free space (absolute and percentage-wise) on your OS drive/partition?

Also, how long since you deleted temporary internet files?  Might help do do that; deleting cookies and clearing history might also help.
« Last Edit: May 28, 2006, 11:33:47 AM by soybean »
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2006, 06:11:48 PM »
That isn't the problem, but thank you.
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2006, 06:18:57 PM »
What isn't?  The free space, or cleanup of temporary internet files, etc.?
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2006, 07:13:07 PM »
I have plenty of free space and I delete my temp files all the time
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2006, 08:25:46 PM »
GAIM is instant messaging, right?  And, if you're just sending text back and forth, that takes very little bandwidth.  I suggest you visit http://www.dslreports.com/tools and run a speed test.  This should give you some solid evidence of whether you have any hardware issues affecting your internet speed, such as a failing modem.  
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2006, 07:28:43 AM »
The modem is fine because I have a wireless card on a laptop connected via router thru my desktop and that is fine.

This problem is really bugging me because I can't figure it out at all.
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2006, 07:39:18 AM »
OK, then why not run a speed test with both computers and compare the results.  And, then run the Tweaks test; that one identifies possible Windows settings that may be causing a slowdown in connection speed and recommends changes.
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Re: Question about net connection thru XP
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2006, 07:50:22 AM »
Trying to but the page isn't loading for some reason....  as soon as it does I will do the tests.
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