evening all,

just a few Questions that i some help with...

Right my Laptop (running Vista) seems really sluggish tonight, well its the internet mainly, i was just wondering if there is any programs (free) on the net that i could download to see if there is any problems with it, It takes awhile to open a page sometimes, Streaming vids on youtube & such is sucking balls! I have run Windows Defender to see if there was any probs but there was none, I ran AVG the other day (as its been like it for awhile but tonight it seems worse) & all is fine, so i dont think there is no need to run another scan(?)

I am on 5.5meg Orange BoardBand....well i am ment to be after ugrading my package like 2weeks ago & im not using there Livebox routor

so is there any Performance scan program things i could do on here

Compaired to my PC which runs XP my laptop sucks ass!


PS i am running IE7 on both machines

 

Go HERE and see what your connection speed is first.

 

 

There both running Wireless Internet too

 

right to a control alt del, hit task manager, click on to processes and have a look whats taking most of processer time

then we will have a clue whats the problem

 

Your speedtest result is pretty shit fella. What's your PC's speed like?

 

This is mine, wireless connection on my laptop. I'm on SKY up to 8meg.

 

Johnny is this what you ment?



Edit, thought the Pic would come out abit bigger than that but you cant just make out what is what lol

 

your net speed is no where near where it should be, if your on 5 meg your upload should be over 4000 kb/s, that would explain your shit net browsing! get on the phone to orange their normally pretty good on the phone

 

il fire up the PC now & check

ta!

 

right im on the PC now & did the test

 

Il be phoning Orange first thing then, I have one of there Livebox's routors in the cubbard, would you think if i used it, that might work better over my Belkin Routor?

 

That's better but not as much as you should be getting. How is your router connected?
Is it plugged directly into the main socket in the wall or through an extension?
Whichever way it's connected try removing the front cover of your main socket, just two screws and it pops off. If it's a modern box there will be another socket inside, try connecting to that and see what your speedtests are like.
If it's an old box like mine you might want to try hard wiring wires 2 and 5 (I think) from your roouter/extension to the socket. It worked wonders for me.

 

my Router is connected straight to Phone socket, i have full Signal on my Laptop & over half signal bar on my PC using a USB wirelss card if that helps?

 

Pop off the cover and see if there's a socket behind it.

 

I really wuld but its gone 10pm & i would have to move the corner shevle,cabanet thingy

but i can see there is my Router phone line & normal phone line are joinned into one socket using one of those muliti block things lol

so could that be one of the reasons why i am not getting full speed?

 

The livebox i found was complete shit, it spent more time disconnected from the net than it did connected, stupid thing. The belkin is definatly better.

And yes 1000 odd is still way to slow, im on 1 meg orange bb and i get nearly that.

Since its slow on both pc AND laptop its defo a problem there end or with your line maybe

 

a phone joined to the broadband wouldnt slow it down no, ive got my router, phone and sky connected to my phone socket and it doesnt slow it down

 

Right....theres one issue!!!

Erm...I believe you mean his DOWNLOAD speed should be higher - his upload speed wont be 4000kb\s!!! LMAO!!!

 

right, i just did the test on my PS3 as that is also running Wireless & i got 653kbs

thats better than my Laptop!

 

while we are on a simillar topic.... i'm not using a filter with my black sky router, it just goes straight into the wall. Is this bad for it / slowing it down at all?

Seems to work ok. just wondered.

Cheers,
Jim

 

Thanks for your input on the subject Lee lol!

 

No, you only need a filter for a line used for a phone.

 

When you get chance whip the cover off and try it. In the mean time get onto your provider and see what they say.


Just for the record I'm now on my PC, and my speedtest result is about double my laptop speed.

 

yeah download

 

all the filter does it make it so that you can be on the net and connect a phone to it aswell, without one the phone doesnt work properly

 

cheers guys, il give orange a buzz tommrow!

 

I had the same a couple of days ago after this place was playing up and rebooting the router cleared it, I was getting very slow speeds (less than a meg) but after a reboot I was getting over 4 again.

 

yeah, thats wht i normally do, il do it now & re do the test!

 

It might cure it because after the troubles on the board the other day it cured it for me. It didn't show up any errors either when I did a diagnostic check bit weird but might have been a coincidence.

 

from the Laptop




Whoop!

 

pc

 

Paul....cheers Dude, seems alot better dunno why i didnt think of it myself