MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Hi all...
My internet connection is utter pants. Sometimes it's like having an old dial up connection. Pages load without images or stylesheets, if they load at all. I keep getting server not found on Google, the Beeb, Wikipedia. I cannot get my emails via outlook express and I cannot connect to an FTP server... so i guess that discounts an issue with my browser... but just incase I did completely uninstall firefox and reinstalled it, so that's in theory, a 'clean' install.
It drives me nuts and then after anything from 10mins to a couple of hours of connection-crapness... it's absolutely fine.
MY ISP says I've never had any downtime and from their end all is hunky dory.
I've put new cables in between the modem, PC and phone socket, and a new microfilter.
I run AVG free alongside ZoneAlarm for my virus and firewall protection. Running a full system scan draws up nothing, and running spybot search & destry also brings up nothing.
could I have a virus or peice of malware clogging up my connection? And can you recommend any thing I'm not using to try to find it?
Of course it could be other things... I just want to confidently cross this one off the list of possible causes for my intermittent (daily) terrible internet speed.
My internet connection is utter pants. Sometimes it's like having an old dial up connection. Pages load without images or stylesheets, if they load at all. I keep getting server not found on Google, the Beeb, Wikipedia. I cannot get my emails via outlook express and I cannot connect to an FTP server... so i guess that discounts an issue with my browser... but just incase I did completely uninstall firefox and reinstalled it, so that's in theory, a 'clean' install.
It drives me nuts and then after anything from 10mins to a couple of hours of connection-crapness... it's absolutely fine.
MY ISP says I've never had any downtime and from their end all is hunky dory.
I've put new cables in between the modem, PC and phone socket, and a new microfilter.
I run AVG free alongside ZoneAlarm for my virus and firewall protection. Running a full system scan draws up nothing, and running spybot search & destry also brings up nothing.
could I have a virus or peice of malware clogging up my connection? And can you recommend any thing I'm not using to try to find it?
Of course it could be other things... I just want to confidently cross this one off the list of possible causes for my intermittent (daily) terrible internet speed.