on my computer than my sister's computer? We are both wirelessly connected to the same router (Comcast internet). But, yet, sometimes some sites come up very slowly for me, on my laptop. They load up much more quickly on my sister's computer even though my laptop has more memory, hard drive, gpu, and cpu. Also, I really don't run many other programs/applications while I surf the web.
Oh yeah, when I browse the web on my desktop, that has a cord connected to the router, it is much faster than when I surf the web on my laptop with a cord attached to the router.
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What browser do you use? What OS? You should get maximum speed if you use Linux, and get pretty good speeds on Windows. Unless you use Internet Explorer and Vista and she/your desktop uses Firefox i see no reason for a difference.
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Yeah, it is pretty strange.. we both have Windows XP and use Firefox.
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It might be something using the internet resources, or maybe a virus. Do you have something like uTorrent running in the background, or have you done a virus scan recently? What's your AV?
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Try running cablenut optimizer and see if it helps. Get the aux pack for more settings. Made a big difference on my pc's.
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What ethernet card do you have on your desktop and laptop?
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Try pingin your default gateway and see what sort of responces you are getting. For example when i user my laptop downstairs (my router is upstairs) it takes longer to load pages due to signal and latency. Hope this helps
C:\Users\admin>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::315b:3
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
C:\Users\admin>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 20ms
Why is surfing the internet so much laggier...
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by AzN, Jun 8, 2008.