Can't work it out .. ?

[downside]

The other possibilty is that you have a virus or some other form of malware like a Browser Help Object (BHO) which becomes active once you connect to the Internet.

Download and install Hijack This and run a scan and see if anything suspicious turns up.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155

[Pels.]

I'll give it a go and let you know .. I already have McAfee Virus Scan and Firewall .. plus the AOL spyware keeps checking everything the minute I log on .. but no harm in trying every option .. thankyou. 

[Pels.]

Had an idea to hopefully prove how slow it's going at the moment ..

Type Speed KBPS
56k modem  56
256k DSL  256
512k DSL  512
1Mb DSL/Cable  1024
2Mb DSL/Cable  2048
4Mb DSL/Cable  4096
8Mb DSL/Cable  8192
You  90
Results 816 kbits downloaded in 9.046 sec

The above was me less than five minutes ago .. but this was me on the 4th January ..

Type Speed KBPS
56k modem  56
256k DSL  256
512k DSL  512
1Mb DSL/Cable  1024
2Mb DSL/Cable  2048
4Mb DSL/Cable  4096
8Mb DSL/Cable  8192
You  1316
Results 7816 kbits downloaded in 5.937 sec 

It isn't like this all the time .. earlier on it was quite fast .. 

[CaroleW]

Hi

Have you cleared out your temporary internet files and done a disk cleanup?

Start/Control Panel/ then switch to Category View if you are in Classic View

Select Performance & Maintenance
Select Free up space on your hard disk

A little brush should appear at the very bottom of your screen with Disk Cleanup and it takes a couple of minutes before you are presented with a possible "cleanup"  I usually just click OK and then confirm.  It doesn't delete any passwords etc

I do this every night before I switch off and it seems to keep things running ok

[Pels.]

You had me wondering there .. I usually find the Disk Cleanup somewhere else .. I didn't know there was two ways! 

Start/All Programmes/Accessories/System Tools/ and then either Disk Cleanup or Defragment.

I do all that quite regularly Carole, not every night though admittedly .. and delete the Temporary Internet files.

This is the link I used to test the speed ..

http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/?r=2

I'm wearing it out at the moment! 

[CaroleW]

That's a useful website to have - my download speed for 7816 was 4.2 secs

[Gadget]

Just done it on this laptop - OK - wireless:

7816 kbits downloaded in 5.406 sec

a bit faster than yours but not all that much and I've not had any problems at all 

Gadget

Added - now it's getting faster:

    7816 kbits downloaded in 3 sec

i usually use:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

with this:

Downspeed - 1763.14 Kbps ( 1.7 Mbps )

and I'm paying for 3-6 

[Michael J]

I had the same thing at the beginning of the week.

I'm fairly sure it was caused by a roll-over ad at the bottom of a Rootschat page, which said 'is your internet connection slow? click here to clean up your computer'. I didn't mean to rollover it and although I didn't click on it it started downloading anyway. Norton threw up a minimized message which I couldn't enlarge, and then I couldn't post anything at all as I was continuously returned to the 'Welcome Guest' page. I did eventually manage to post one reply to an RAF page but it appeared as a separate topic.

Nothing showed up on a scan so the only way I could return to normal was to start using my spare hard disk (my computer has two, both identical).

Michael J.

[Pels.]

Just done it on this laptop - OK - wireless:

7816 kbits downloaded in 5.406 sec

a bit faster than yours but not all that much and I've not had any problems at all 

This was mine Gadget .. the one below was taken in January ..

Results 816 kbits downloaded in 9.046 sec ..

I don't remember that roll over advert Michael ..