Windows 10 slow connecting/loading web pages.

spud959

spud959

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Hi desperately seeking help getting my computer running correctly again.

When I'm surfing the net the pages take an age to connect then again to fully load. Even when this happens images may not load or it comes up error- reload. When I press reload it can load very quickly.

It's infuriating as it's quite a new computer and my old vista is plugged into the same router and works much faster. Wifi is also good. The download speed is 70 Mb/s so no speed issues.

It's running Win 10 home and I did have spybot and malwarebytes installed which didn't find any issues with viruses etc.

After scouring he net for answers and uninstalling this and that and changed all the settings that were recommended but nothing seems to improve it. I've tried firefox and chrome and changed all the recommended settings but no joy. I'm sure it never used to be this slow.

Eventually I gave up and did a full restore wiping everything off and reinstalling windows. Even with no 3rd part software it's the same. I've updated any drivers I could find and now I've run out of ideas completely.

The specs of the machine are Win10 home, i5-4690k @ 3.5 Ghz, 16Gb ram, 64 bit operating system x64 bit processor, Nviida gtx 970 graphics.

I'm at the end of my tether (and computing ability) any definitive ideas as to what to try next?

Cheers Spud.
 
Check you have latest chipset and Wifi/Lan drivers.

Check in Event Viewer and Reliability History for any errors, any issues listed in Device Manager?..

Run a full memory test on your ram via Windows or memtest86+.

Check you have the latest video video drivers as well.

Also try the clean install on a different HD or run a test for errors on your current HD, check for loose or replace HD cables.

Last tip try disabling hardware acceleration for the browser (depending on what browser you use).
 
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Elevon said:
Check you have latest chipset and Wifi/Lan drivers.

Check in Event Viewer and Reliability History for any errors, any issues listed in Device Manager?..

Run a full memory test on your ram via Windows or memtest86+.

Check you have the latest video video drivers as well.

Also try the clean install on a different HD or run a test for errors on your current HD, check for loose or replace HD cables.

Last tip try disabling hardware acceleration for the browser (depending on what browser you use).
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Right then, quite a few things in event manager but none with device manager in them. I have to be honest I don't know what all the others really mean.
Reliability history also had a couple of things but it had a solution checker which said there were no new solutions.

Ran the memory test which was OK.

All drivers up to date.

Haven't reinstalled on a different HD but have just found where the drive checker is. I have a 480Gb SSD and 1TB WD hard drive although very little is on either.

I've disable hardware acceleration and things seem to go fast for a minute then back to slow again.

The thing is driving me insane.

I've tried it on chrome and firefox.

I still have to check the cables.

Thx for the ideas, any others?

Cheers Spud.
 
try internet explorer too

presumably you have no anti-adware add-ons running in ff/chrome(if they allow that in chrome) or blocking sites in your hosts file, since sometimes if you block some ad web-sites the javascript code for principal site seems to be 'unhappy'(with slow loading - not getting return codes it expects ?)

what is an example of a site that fails to load. ?
Personally quidco.com site and amazon(unless i block amazon-ssl-images) often slow for me in ff
(amazon site problems are documented on web, it is this stupid mechanism that reveals more and more of the page as you scroll down, and seems to burn up the cpu's)
 
Have you tried disabling Windows 10's TCP Receive Window Auto-Tuning?

To check the status, use an admin command prompt:
Code: 
netsh interface tcp show global

Look for the entry "Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level"

If it's enabled you can disable it with the command
Code: 
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled

If you wish to re-enable it:
Code: 
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

People have reported multiple issues with the auto-tuning feature from slow networks, problems connecting email and webpages timing out among others

On my system, I found disabling the auto tuning increased my download speeds.
 
Btw was your Win10 Home dowloaded?...I would also try a fresh new download copy to rule out a corrupted Win10 Home version you might have.
 
spud959 said:
I'm at the end of my tether (and computing ability) any definitive ideas as to what to try next?
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Any security software?
Are other devices affected?
Who is your ISP?

Try Google DNS or OpenDNS.

Try the Ubuntu live DVD.
 
jpaul said:
try internet explorer too

presumably you have no anti-adware add-ons running in ff/chrome(if they allow that in chrome) or blocking sites in your hosts file, since sometimes if you block some ad web-sites the javascript code for principal site seems to be 'unhappy'(with slow loading - not getting return codes it expects ?)

what is an example of a site that fails to load. ?
Personally quidco.com site and amazon(unless i block amazon-ssl-images) often slow for me in ff
(amazon site problems are documented on web, it is this stupid mechanism that reveals more and more of the page as you scroll down, and seems to burn up the cpu's)
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Sorry for the late reply I've not had much chance to mess around with it as it p****S me right off at the moment. A lot of sites fail to load and either sit there until I press reload or after a split second load on their own. A site I like to "practice"on is Bangood. Lots of cheap Chinese rubbish with lots of pictures it doesn't like.
 
Pyr0m@nI@]{;29977851 said:
Have you tried disabling Windows 10's TCP Receive Window Auto-Tuning?

To check the status, use an admin command prompt:
Code: 
netsh interface tcp show global

Look for the entry "Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level"

If it's enabled you can disable it with the command
Code: 
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled

If you wish to re-enable it:
Code: 
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

People have reported multiple issues with the auto-tuning feature from slow networks, problems connecting email and webpages timing out among others

On my system, I found disabling the auto tuning increased my download speeds.
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Started going through this list of stuff when I saw it all on a site. !st one was something to do with a chimney. Enabled that and it went like a rocket for about 30 secs then stopped working again. It also increased my ping from 30 to 160 on a game I play regularly so ptu ti back. Haven't been able to try the others yet. Personally I don't think I should be going so deep. It used to work fine at one point.
 
KIA said:
Any security software?
Are other devices affected?
Who is your ISP?

Try Google DNS or OpenDNS.

Try the Ubuntu live DVD.
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No, my other computer plugged into same router is fine. Tablets on wifi fine.

Use plusnet and haven't had issues before.

Not sure how to use google or open DNS. Will have to google it.
 
Had a look at the bangagood site in ff and this has same behaviour as Amazon , I had had problems with - it load more junk as you scroll down, making the window arbitrarily long (lord know resources it takes) as opposed to paging
- does anyone know what this mechanism is called ? (or how to disable it)
[insert vitriolic comment about web 'designers' who have no concept of resource use - bad educations]

this is a page just saw that describes firefox speed ups
although it is a year old and linux - it is relevant for windows and list a lot of ff add-ons I use,including below comment about amazon that behaves same as bangagood, it also discusses h/w acceleration in browser , I did not know about inbuilt anti-tracking either

I just added 3 of the resource limiting options to ff to see if it helps
image.mem.max_decoded_image_kb
javascript.options.mem.max
javascript.options.mem.high_water_mark

My biggest problem is Amazon. Large parts of the page don't actually start loading and rendering until you scroll to them. So each time something loads, scrolling basically stops until loading/rendering is done. Most annoying problem I have with FF.

[–]y0y0ma 2 points 1 year ago

I have the same problem with Amazon. So much so that I dread opening any Amazon links for fear of slowing things down to a crawl. One tab with Amazon opened is worse than 2 FF windows with 15 tabs each.


[–]clickwir 1 point 1 year ago

Exactly. I don't have a super powerful system, but it's no slouch. And still, one Amazon page just makes the whole experience terrible. I wish there was a way to trick the Amazon page into thinking you've already scrolled the whole page and load everything instead of waiting to load it.

Some Imgur albums are starting to get like that too. Not loading things till they are scrolled to. If it gets to be so bad, I just stop using it.
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Hi,

I just had a similar issue finally sorted today. The fix in my case was my ISP disabling the WiFi on the router, and then re-enabling it. Seems to have "refreshed" things, how it distributes bandwidth to devices etc, and currently no longer getting delay opening webpages and/or "Cannot find server" messages on the browser.

There are many variables with setups and it may not work for you but worth a try as it's simple.
 
Well although not brilliant on computers I managed to do the Ubuntu thing and it seems that it's slow on that as well.

Oddly it's not obvious, but at the start it was really quick then it slowed down. I'd restart in windows and at the start that was also quick confusing the issue but then that slows down.

It suggests there's something wrong in the settings/computer side.

I think I've updated all the drivers so not sure what else to look at.

Any suggestions?

Thanks Spud.
 
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