Why does the internet seem to be slower on my notebook?

I posted this in HP forum, but no one replied there, so I guess this forum is better place to ask this. I have HP dv6700 with Intel 4965AGN wifi chipset running Windows7 Ultimate 32bit. My router is Super G Netgear WPN824v2 running in G only mode. I got comcast 22mbps connection, so it is fast, but not on my laptop. The websites open, but I can feel its not fast. My friend's 4 year old old IBM laptop running XP gets better browsing experience than mine. I ran the speed test, and the ping from his laptop to server was 10ms whereas from mine it was 20ms to same server. Speed results were little better on his than mine, though difference was small, but websites load a lot faster on older IBM laptop than on my HP machine. Still, mine has a newer wifi chipset, hardware and OS, but its browsing is comparitvely slower. I checked for drivers, but it got the latest (version 13.0.0.107) installed already. What could be the reason?? Any recommendations??

 

Is this with both ac power connected and running on battery?

Also what Firewall/AV software are you using compared to the other nb.

 

sometimes anti-virus is the problem. I use kaspersky internet security with web traffic monitoring enable and the speed is kinda slow, not really slow maybe like 80% speed. If I disable my anti-virus I can feel the difference. Really fast but thats the price for you gotta pay for maximum security. Happy to say my anti-virus never failed me.

 

Boot into Windows Safe mode with networking. Do the same tests - if it's faster then it's one of the memory resident apps that slows WIFI performance down.

If there's a lot of disk activity during surfing, try a defrag of the disk including a defrag of the system swap file.

 

Sounds like crapware slowing things down. Have you measured how much of a slow down is there? Is it 1 second, two seconds? Two minutes? The difference measurement will help a lot.