Some things for you to do:
* Defrag
* Press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC and go to Performance. Make sure your CPU usage is not full, and make sure your PF Usage is not more than your available physical memory.
* go to Processes and check if any are using a large number of CPU cycles. If you know what apps they are and they are non-essential, get rid of them. If you don't know what apps they are, install an antivirus and do a thoroughs can of your system.
* Install an adware killer and run a system sweep
If all else fails, post your PC specs and we'll tell you if it's time for an upgrade or a new PC.
Im on btinternet, random IP with a wireless connection. From 2 computers connected this way, only mine seems to be affected.
A single machine, and its slow across multiple browsers? Seems like troubleshooting the browser may be the wrong step. It is on a wireless card, perhaps there is something fishy about the wireless card configuration?
I might start by troubleshooting that, perhaps uninstall and re install the wireless card, but first, I might just take a short 10/100 cable, plug the lan directly into the router, see if that fixes it temporarily, then you might be able to isolate it to a wireless issue. Since the other machine is okay, probably not the router, so you might isolate it to an issue with the machines wireless card. At that point uninstall, and reinstall the cards software.
If you have trouble let us know, give us as much detail about the wireless card and router as possible and we will try to help, but I am betting thats where your issue lies.
I doubt it is memory as the system would be slow in general. Are both PCs using the same OS and are they both accessing via wireless?
I had problems with two laptops one running Vista and one Running XP. XP would not support WPA encryption and the Vista PC was slow and kept dropping the connection while using WEP. It also did not help that my flat mate kept fiddleing with the router settings without knowing what they do and his laptop was riddled with spyware.
I would start by downloading Malwarebytes anti Malware and Spybot. Run both of these and fix anything they find. Dont bother installing Spybots "tea timer" real time protection as it not very effective and can take up a large amount of resource. If this doesn't work then I would then suggest that you turn off and uninstall the local network adapters on the PCs and remove and connection software that BT provided you with. This will remove all the local wireless setting on both PCs. Find out how to restore your router back to factory default settings. Then try to re-install the network adapter drivers but DO NOT install the BT connection software. In my experience these software packages are pretty poor. Instead use the Windows Zero Config Connection tool from the system tray. This will detect your network settings and configure you wireless connection accordingly.
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* Defrag
* Press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC and go to Performance. Make sure your CPU usage is not full, and make sure your PF Usage is not more than your available physical memory.
* go to Processes and check if any are using a large number of CPU cycles. If you know what apps they are and they are non-essential, get rid of them. If you don't know what apps they are, install an antivirus and do a thoroughs can of your system.
* Install an adware killer and run a system sweep
If all else fails, post your PC specs and we'll tell you if it's time for an upgrade or a new PC.
Also, what kind of ISP do you use? Is it a local PC problem, or is your ISP just slow?
Im on btinternet, random IP with a wireless connection. From 2 computers connected this way, only mine seems to be affected.
A single machine, and its slow across multiple browsers? Seems like troubleshooting the browser may be the wrong step. It is on a wireless card, perhaps there is something fishy about the wireless card configuration?
I might start by troubleshooting that, perhaps uninstall and re install the wireless card, but first, I might just take a short 10/100 cable, plug the lan directly into the router, see if that fixes it temporarily, then you might be able to isolate it to a wireless issue. Since the other machine is okay, probably not the router, so you might isolate it to an issue with the machines wireless card. At that point uninstall, and reinstall the cards software.
If you have trouble let us know, give us as much detail about the wireless card and router as possible and we will try to help, but I am betting thats where your issue lies.
what are your computer specs?
I had problems with two laptops one running Vista and one Running XP. XP would not support WPA encryption and the Vista PC was slow and kept dropping the connection while using WEP. It also did not help that my flat mate kept fiddleing with the router settings without knowing what they do and his laptop was riddled with spyware.
I would start by downloading Malwarebytes anti Malware and Spybot. Run both of these and fix anything they find. Dont bother installing Spybots "tea timer" real time protection as it not very effective and can take up a large amount of resource. If this doesn't work then I would then suggest that you turn off and uninstall the local network adapters on the PCs and remove and connection software that BT provided you with. This will remove all the local wireless setting on both PCs. Find out how to restore your router back to factory default settings. Then try to re-install the network adapter drivers but DO NOT install the BT connection software. In my experience these software packages are pretty poor. Instead use the Windows Zero Config Connection tool from the system tray. This will detect your network settings and configure you wireless connection accordingly.