severe XP network delay

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My wife has an ASUS P4P800 running 2.8GHZ processor, 512MB Ram, on 3Mb DSL
connection. She is having some serious issues with network delays. Sometimes
it takes minutes to load pages, while my system is on the same router, with
3GHZ processor 1GB Ram and mine is lightning quick. And even my laptop with
1.6GHZ processor 512MB Ram, and wireless connection still smokes her system.
I thought it might be the network card on her system, so I changed it and
went to her onboard NIC. No change. I disabled her firewall. No change. I
decided to install Firefox to see if it was only associated with IE. No
change. I'm at my wits end here. Not sure what to try next. Any and all
recommendations are appreciated.
Thanks
 
sims said:
My wife has an ASUS P4P800 running 2.8GHZ processor, 512MB Ram, on 3Mb DSL
connection. She is having some serious issues with network delays. Sometimes
it takes minutes to load pages, while my system is on the same router, with
3GHZ processor 1GB Ram and mine is lightning quick. And even my laptop with
1.6GHZ processor 512MB Ram, and wireless connection still smokes her system.
I thought it might be the network card on her system, so I changed it and
went to her onboard NIC. No change. I disabled her firewall. No change. I
decided to install Firefox to see if it was only associated with IE. No
change. I'm at my wits end here. Not sure what to try next. Any and all
recommendations are appreciated.
Thanks
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Have you checked that she has nothing nasty on her system - viruses and/or
malware

Dick
 
Dick Cardy said:
Have you checked that she has nothing nasty on her system - viruses and/or
malware

Dick
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Yes I've run Norton and Trendmicro housecall and the system is coming up
clean. I've run defrag, disk cleanup, and even check disk to see if it would
help any. So far I'm still batting a big fat zero.
Her system seems to function fine in every other way, only does it rear its
ugly side when venturing onto the web.
Any other help would be great.
thanks
 
sims said:
Yes I've run Norton and Trendmicro housecall and the system is coming up
clean. I've run defrag, disk cleanup, and even check disk to see if it would
help any. So far I'm still batting a big fat zero.
Her system seems to function fine in every other way, only does it rear its
ugly side when venturing onto the web.
Any other help would be great.
thanks
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Have you tried the following:-

Use only your wife's computer - switch others off - and see if it is still
slow.

Checked the IP and DNS settings on your wife's computer {on all of my
computers I tend to have fixed IPs in the range 192.168.x.x and I also
specify the DNS values}

Also check the IP and DNS settings on your computer against your wife's

Is it possible to directly connect your wife's computer to the network to
eliminate a router problem?

Dick
 
I tried it directly connected to the modem and behind the router with no
other systems running and nothing seems to make any difference on her
connection speeds. Her DNS settings are the same as mine. IP is the same
scheme as mine but, this one's got me stumped but good. I'm starting to think
that the only way around it is to format and reload, which is always the last
resort.......
Call me stumped in Carolina..........................................
 
sims said:
I tried it directly connected to the modem and behind the router with no
other systems running and nothing seems to make any difference on her
connection speeds. Her DNS settings are the same as mine. IP is the same
scheme as mine but, this one's got me stumped but good. I'm starting to think
that the only way around it is to format and reload, which is always the last
resort.......
Call me stumped in Carolina..........................................
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Ok so now we have ruled out a router/IP/DNS problem.

Are you sure that nothing is running when connected to the Internet that is
slowing down the computer?

Try running a virus scan and various malware scans in safe mode.

Try PING from your computer and the "bosses" computer and compare the
results.

Switch the cables. {maybe a faulty cable}

What NIC is being used?

Dick
 
Dick Cardy said:
Ok so now we have ruled out a router/IP/DNS problem.

Are you sure that nothing is running when connected to the Internet that is
slowing down the computer?

Try running a virus scan and various malware scans in safe mode.

Try PING from your computer and the "bosses" computer and compare the
results.

Switch the cables. {maybe a faulty cable}

What NIC is being used?

Dick

I've tried changing cables. Changing NIC's(3Com Gigabit 3C940)(Sohoware 10/100 PCI).
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Virus scan and web bug scan came back clean under safe mode. Ping came back
almost identical.
And since we're both on the same modem, obviously we're online 24/7. Nothing
running in the background on her system that I can tell that would be eating
up that much bandwidth or CPU time to cause those kinds of delays.
I've since moved her system out and replaced it with another unit that I had
loaded and running. Same cable, modem, and router, with none of the lag.
Something has caused her system to slow to a crawl on the net, and I still
can't put my finger on it.
Thanks for your time.....and patience.
 
sims said:
10/100 PCI).
Virus scan and web bug scan came back clean under safe mode. Ping came back
almost identical.
And since we're both on the same modem, obviously we're online 24/7. Nothing
running in the background on her system that I can tell that would be eating
up that much bandwidth or CPU time to cause those kinds of delays.
I've since moved her system out and replaced it with another unit that I had
loaded and running. Same cable, modem, and router, with none of the lag.
Something has caused her system to slow to a crawl on the net, and I still
can't put my finger on it.
Thanks for your time.....and patience.
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Ok that is one solution that works for a select few (i.e those with spare
computers!). Suggest when you have time and the wife is not jumping up and
down that you look at it again. In the cold light of day you might notice
something.

Dick
Who has 25 computers but is puzzled why the one that always goes wrong
belongs to the "boss"
 
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