Strange internet speed problem - help!

[Jed Shields]

Hi guys,

my wifes internet connection is behaving strangely. She's running a Gigabyte 78G motherboard with a Athlon 4450e CPU and 2Gb ram - using Vista Ultimate. The connection is through a router and is with Virgin. It was a 4gb connection, but it seems to have been increased to 10Mb.

She can download files from the internet at around 1Meg per second and transfer across the network at 14Meg per second, so the network seems fine. The problem comes when surfing as it takes an absolute age to load pages. It even has to catch up when she's typing in text into search engines etc. I have no trouble on my system.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Jed.

 

[Jed Shields]

That's what I figured. Any suggestions? Corrupt browser?

Edit - I've just run 3DMark06 and am getting a score of 1150. Does this seem right? I'm trying to get an idea if the PC is running okay.

 

[Jed Shields]

Just the standard Vista one. There's also a Google toolbar ...

Should I try a different browser? Any suggestions?

How do I reinstall the Vista one?

What about the 3dMark06 score - does that look right?

 

[Jed Shields]

that depends.. what graphics hardware does the machine have?

It's onboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H), so i'm not expecting miracles.

Anyway, turns out that it's Internet Explorer playing up. I've installed Firefox and it flies.

How do I reinstall Internet Explorer?

 

[Jed Shields]

Pretty good score in 3DMark06 for onboard graphics LOL

Well, the setup is just for my wife who uses the PC for surfing and general MS Office stuff ... so it seems to be okay. However, it's also perfect for HTPC duties, so I'll be buying the kit again soon when I set up a HTPC for my living room

The only thing that threw me about the score was that mine is 10x the size at 11500! Although I'm running a Q6600, 4Gb Ram and an 8800GTS

IE - I'll check what plug ins have been added and strip it back down to see if that makes any difference ...