I have a laptop and a desktop at home, both connected via cable to the same ADSL modem. (I used to use wireless until I would get massive drops in performance every night at 10pm, perhaps some neighbor coming home and torrenting each night at that time).
My laptop’s connection is lightning fast, and I rarely experience problems. However, my desktop computer gets sluggish connection at best, and more often than not doesn’t even seem to connect (I open Firefox, and it sits there, then a minute later it says “Done” with a blank page), even though it I successfully dial the ADSL connection and it tells me there’s a 100 Mbps connection. Sometime I’m able to visit one site, then it gives up when I try to visit another.
Both systems are Windows; my laptop is Vista, my desktop is XP.
Any insight into how to restore my desktop’s Internet performance?
Yup… something’s farked up… no idea what. I’ve tried everything. Plus Vista and XP have different interfaces with different settings, so it’s hard to coordinate them.
Default open channel, with no password. No idea where the wireless router manual is: I placed it in a cupboard, but now it’s not there. Probably disappeared into the same interdimensional spacetime wormhole that my coffee-table cover and missing socks went into.
Something similiar happened with one of my desktops. I had to get a new internet card because the hookup on the motherboard was screwed up. Works right as rain now. It’s a cheap enough thing to try.
[/quote]Default open channel, with no password. No idea where the wireless router manual is: I placed it in a cupboard, but now it’s not there. Probably disappeared into the same interdimensional spacetime wormhole that my coffee-table cover and missing socks went into.[/quote]
pls find the manual online or get a new router!! the worst thing you can do to yourself is using the default open channel with no password…not only will others be using your connection for free BUT if they do something illegal then u will get caught and not them…
i guess this may also be one of the reasons why your speed drops every nite at 10 pm…maybe someone is already using your connection for free…
regarding your desktop, like others said it may be a problem with the onbard lan…try getting a lan card from someone to check and see if it is really the onboard lan that has a problem…I too have had similar problems in the past with a couple of ASUS motherboards…how old is your desktop???
Before you go buying new hardware to test in your desktop, swap the cables between your laptop and your desktop.
That way you can check that it is not a cable issue, and that it is not just that THAT particular port on the modem is blown.
THEN go ahead and start changing your desktop hardware.
Download and burn a linux livecd and try connecting to internet with that one to see if it could be something software.
If that works without problem then I would look trough my system settings or do a fresh install.
OK. New NIC, new cable, settings theoretically all kosher. Driver loaded automatically after install of NIC and reboot (but, of course, not from the Internet).
Same problem. Fast connection on laptop; barely any connection on desktop. None much of the time, but when there is a connection it’s sluggish as hell. Can barely browse more than one site; then it’s blank pages.
Something wrong with the settings, perhaps? Any diagnostic tools? Desktop computer is XP.
Chris, I hate to ask this and I do so in a merely need to know no fault tone. Did you plug the line into the NIC card slot or is it still in your motherboard slot?
there maybe some other reasons like a virus, or yr anti virus software setting is too rigid, or there are some dialer programs running in the background…
disable the onboard lan by going to control panel, internet connections and then reboot
i remember you mentioned that u are using a router…i guess it must be having 4 lan ports…can you check and see if are facing the same problem when connecting to all 4 ports?? maybe the present port has gone crazy…i doubt it but since you are facing a problem it’s best to check everything one by one
what happens when you connect your notebook using the same lan cable that you are using for your desktop? are the results the same? first try and get the desktop out of the equation and see if everything is working okay when you replace the desktop with the notebook…if yes then it means your router ports, lan cable etc are okay and the problem still lies with yr desktop…
[quote=“speed_maniac”]there maybe some other reasons like a virus, or yr anti virus software setting is too rigid, or there are some dialer programs running in the background…
disable the onboard lan by going to control panel, internet connections and then reboot
i remember you mentioned that u are using a router…i guess it must be having 4 lan ports…can you check and see if are facing the same problem when connecting to all 4 ports?? maybe the present port has gone crazy…i doubt it but since you are facing a problem it’s best to check everything one by one
what happens when you connect your notebook using the same lan cable that you are using for your desktop? are the results the same? first try and get the desktop out of the equation and see if everything is working okay when you replace the desktop with the notebook…if yes then it means your router ports, lan cable etc are okay and the problem still lies with yr desktop…[/quote]
I’ve tried all four ports. I tried connecting my laptop to the same cable. No problems.
I’ve figured out how to set the WEP on my wireless router… my next step is to try connecting via wireless.
did u disable the onboard lan and re-check?? when did this problem surface?? had you made any changes to the desktop or downloaded some programs or something??
frankly speaking it is not so diffcult to solve the problem until and unless there is some other setting that has got messed up or you are having a virus problem
I’ve decided to re-install Windows. I’m convinced now that it’s a software problem, perhaps having to do with the old version of ZoneAlarm that started malfunctioning and can’t be uninstalled. And if that doesn’t work, perhaps then it’s time for a new motherboard!!
