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[sgtmoody87]

Hey OCUK!
I have a problem, when I start windows everything works pretty much as soon as I log in except my internet taking a long period of time to connect. This leaves me most of the time staring at Google Chrome until it connects. Other than this the internet is fine I just wondered why there is such a long time to connect.

Thanks

 

[enigmo]

Your tried the usual examinations? Ping and traceroute to something reliable like bbc.co.uk and checked the trip times? Tried a different browser to see if that's slow too? Looked at taskmgr to see if there is anything else slowing your system down? Run perfmon to see if anything else is hammering your network? Reboot your home router to exclude it just being a bit stupid?

 

[sgtmoody87]

Ping and traceroute

Not sure how to do those

Tried a different browser to see if that's slow too

It's not just my browser its my computers whole internet connection, steam spotify and nexus mod manager all start up complaining of no connection.

Looked at taskmgr

I'll have a look next time I start up my PC

Run perfmon to see if anything else is hammering your network?

Can't see anything slowing it down

Reboot your home router

Tried this, the problem only seems to occur on my desktop, my macbook and Ipad have no problems whatsoever

 

[Jumping]

Do you use a router or a modem to connect to the internet? If you have a router do you leave it connected all the time?

 

[KIA]

Set a static IP.

 

[sgtmoody87]

Do you use a router or a modem to connect to the internet? If you have a router do you leave it connected all the time?

I have a router and yes it stays on 24/7

Set a static IP

I'll try that

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I had the same issue when upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8.

Even manually updating the network adapter driver didn't solve it (motherboard P9X79 Pro), so in the end I just reinstalled windows 8 clean and all was well.

Essentially upon booting the network adapter would take 30s to 1 min to connect via wired LAN. The MAC codes are all assigned to static addresses in my home, wired through gigabit ethernet, so there is no reason for the delay

I originally suspected the network adapter as it was showing as 100Mb link speed (instead of gigabit), but like I said I never got around the problem.