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Post by churchill1 on Nov 22, 2006 15:36:38 GMT -5
I find that increasingly often I will be able to connect to the internet but not be able to do anything more than look at web pages. For example I can't enter the GS lobby or use C4F or use MSN. Any ideas? Also from time to time my connection will just cut. Any ideas? Many thanks. Winston.
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Post by Canucksoldier on Nov 22, 2006 16:04:03 GMT -5
Hit Clt alt del, and take a look at the running proccess and there CPU and memory usage, you might have some badly behaving programs, with memory leaks. Or you just may have resident programs running that you don't even know about. Also posting your system specs would be a help too.
CS
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Post by Bantams on Nov 22, 2006 17:57:34 GMT -5
1: Get a new ISP 2: Get a new PC 3:Chop more workers ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by churchill1 on Nov 23, 2006 4:43:51 GMT -5
LOL Bantams.
Here's part of my dxdiag
Time of this report: 11/23/2006, 09:42:12 Machine name: USER-4530A74CCB Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: AWARD_ System Model: AWRDACPI BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs) Memory: 1024MB RAM Page File: 271MB used, 2190MB available Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
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Post by Magzi on Nov 23, 2006 7:34:05 GMT -5
Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs! Try Ctr - alt - Del and look in Task manager to see if a rogue program is running using lots of memory. Also run an anti-spyware program to see if it could be that - spybot is free and seems to work ok for me. What...2 Yorkshire men here?.......I'm from Lancashire (but I escaped!)...........better hide!
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Post by churchill1 on Nov 23, 2006 8:54:06 GMT -5
Hit Clt alt del, and take a look at the running proccess and there CPU and memory usage, you might have some badly behaving programs, with memory leaks. Or you just may have resident programs running that you don't even know about. Also posting your system specs would be a help too. CS What should I look out for in the CPU and memory usage of programs? Getting out of Lancashire - That's an excellent life choice. Unfortunately I'm close to border and occasionally have to cross it.
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Post by whiplash on Nov 23, 2006 9:12:38 GMT -5
I suspect you have some Trojans or Worms running. Magzi suggested Spybot. I have heard good comments regarding that program. I've had your same symptoms occasionally and have always been able to stomp the Trojans with ad-aware by LavaSoft. It has picked up on over 100 files and register items. Once these were cleaned comp ran fine. Get it here: www.adawareresource.com/co/adawareresource/?sid=M2AG0006aGSIt's free and they update often.
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Post by MMV on Nov 23, 2006 9:52:31 GMT -5
indeed - Ad-Aware is awesome, but remember it's a "passive" program. (It doesn't do anything until you run it)
I takes about 9 minutes to do a NORMAL "quick-scan" but the first time you use it, expect a long wait as you could have anywhere from 200-300 malware files there when you first use it.
After that, just run it once per day
A little over a year ago, this same thing happened to me and after making a call, found out the my "browser" was "corrupt" (you could see this using the ctl+alt+del and going to windows task manager.
If your system is running "normally" without the game or anything major on (i.e. after start-up), you should see that "System Idle Process" is running at about 95-100% (looking at the CPU column)
If your browser is corrupted (or anything else), you'll see that your browser (in my case windows) was funning at 98% and my system idle was at the remaining 2% (which meant my browser was using the majority of the comps resources with little to nothing left to "power" the comp)
It eventually ground my sytem to a halt (wouldn't/couldn't even finish start-up load leaving me with blank screen and no icons on my desktop)
Got THAT fixed using a variety of windows tools and the problem went away FOR GOOD.
regardless, run Ad-Aware EVERY day after you get it back to normal.
there are not a lot of directions regarding how to use Ad-Aware, so if you have questions, just post'a'way
basically, you run the scan and wait for it to finish you "quarantine" items that it found and then you "remove" items.
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Post by churchill1 on Nov 24, 2006 4:43:40 GMT -5
Thank you for all the advice. I downloaded and ran ad-aware and deleted everything it picked out. Hopefully things will run more smoothly now. Time will tell.
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Post by geforced on Nov 24, 2006 14:40:34 GMT -5
hmm whenever my comp starts running slow i just reformat
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Post by churchill1 on Nov 30, 2006 15:22:59 GMT -5
Ok I still have this same problem, but I noticed a pattern. It tends to happen around prime time intenet usage - say between 6pm and 10pm.
Could my problem be something to do with the amount of internet 'traffic'?
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Post by willburn on Nov 30, 2006 15:53:40 GMT -5
Get a new isp. (really) Check if its the latency or packet loss - try pinging someting near you with run - command ping www.bluesnews.com -t (replace bluesnews.com with something local to you in england that accepts pings maybe bbc.co.uk?) If its latency it will report very high numbers in ms. If its packet loss you will get reported that some packages couldnt get through. If none of this happens then its not an isp problem. Edit: Wups i generalized a bit there. It can still be a isp problem due to you can have good ping and latency to local stuff but still have lowsy latency and ping to other isps in different parts of the world. Basically you want an isp with a lot of good connections to as many as possible other isp's around the world. Usually this means one of the biggest isp companies sadly (sad for it kinda encourages monopoly) But another factor too is you dont want to compeate with too many people over limited connections. To sum up the best isp have many good connections to other isp all over the world, and have either so large connections that it can takehuge ammounts of people without increasing latency or packetloos or b so few people that you get away with low latency and packetloss even with a smaller connection. (remember for isps a small connection might be say a 10 gigabyte connecton to another isp) (Oh if you have wireless know that is still a pretty new technology and more prone to disconnects than other broadband connections - i use sdsl myself)
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Post by churchill1 on Nov 30, 2006 16:02:42 GMT -5
Get a new isp. (really) Check if its the latency or packet loss - try pinging someting near you with run - command ping www.bluesnews.com -t (replace bluesnews.com with something local to you in england that accepts pings maybe bbc.co.uk?) If its latency it will report very high numbers in ms. If its packet loss you will get reported that some packages couldnt get through. If none of this happens then its not an isp problem. (Oh if you have wireless know that is still a pretty new technology and more prone to disconnects than other broadband connections - i use sdsl myself) TY for the reply, but you need to bear in mind that I am a computer slow . Where can I find the ping number when I go to a site (and what is a high one? Is it the same as in game - say 4 figures isn't a good thing?) Also how can I tell if some packages didn't get through. Finally my ISP is Tiscali and we just changed to them. And I can't remember the connection being perfect with Wanadoo. Has anyone else had trouble with Tiscali? Oh and I don't use wireless.
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Post by willburn on Nov 30, 2006 16:12:12 GMT -5
Anything under 200 latency is ok for civ. But locally to english hosts you should be under 100. Im 24 ping to my national newspaper site (www.dagbladet.no) and i have friends in the capitol that ping 4-5 to it (because the newspaper server is also located in the capitol) I dont remember actually how you see if the packets are dropped but if everythign is fine you should see a list of numbers going down like once every second without interuptions. If there are packetlosses you will see halts in the numbers flowing down the screen. Basically a package is just the information traveling from your computer, while latency is the time it takes to get to the other computer. So if you have package loss it means either the package didnt get through to the other computer or the other computer failed to respond with a package back (if im not mistake , im no internet pro ) To say it in non geek terms: If you can ping locally under 100 ms without the program pausing a lot or reporting packages failing you should in most cases be fine. I belive there are fancy progams that can show you package and latency statistics through different servers over the world and actually map it for you too. (try maybe this visualroute.visualware.com/ )
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Post by churchill1 on Dec 1, 2006 8:11:54 GMT -5
Ok I had a look at that site and if I understood the results correctly. the ping seemed ok. But how do you find the ping to the internet site you're currently browsing?
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Post by tamijo on Dec 1, 2006 8:23:16 GMT -5
I had a problem just like the one you got, turned out to be very simple, was a bad cabel connection in my street.
Have you consulted your net provider, to check that the "outside" hardware is not malfunctioning.
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Post by Bantams on Dec 1, 2006 8:38:03 GMT -5
I too had this problem once and It turned out my telephone extension lead wasnt broadband capabil once I plugged my router into the main BT socket everything was Fine
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