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'Puter help
« on: December 12, 2009, 10:48:56 AM »
Need another round of computer help, this time with my internet browsing. I'll preface by saying I use mostly firefox only only use IE if I absolutely have to. It happens with both my normal firefox, the firefox beta version I am trying, and IE.

Having a bit of an issue getting pages to load. Sometimes they will load fine, other times not at all and will just display a white screen while the tab says loading and the little loading symbol just keeps going round and round. Other times it will load partially, and other times it will look to be loaded completely but that little symbol will keep going as if it were still loading. Reloading or reclicking a link sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't, though closing the browser and going back in usually makes it go through fine. Cli9cking the stop button stops the little loading icon in the instances the page has fully loaded by the icon doesn't stop.

Any thoughts? I've run several spyware removal programs (spybot, superantispyware, and ad-aware), AVG free, and malwarebytes. Between those I'm fairly certain I an spyware/virus/etc. clean. I have zone alarm for a firewall, tried turning it off and using the windows firewall. I've cleared out my cache and cookies. Still happens.

Thoughts on what it might be?
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Re: 'Puter help
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2009, 11:13:45 AM »
Do you have any other computers on the same connection, do they display this issue?  First thing I'd try is pinging the website in question from a command prompt.

If the ping takes a long time to even start, (takes a long time to resolve) it's probably a network/internet connectivity issue and not software/browser related.

You may also want to try different DNS settings, like switching to opendns.com 208.67.222.222 and
208.67.220.220 for a day and see if it works better.

I'd also check the hosts file to see if there's anything goofy in there.

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Re: 'Puter help
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2009, 11:19:58 AM »
I lean towards networking issues as well. Besides pinging specific websites, you might try going to pingtest.net to see what your grade is there.

Also what kind of a connection do you have? Before my last cable modem died, what you're experiencing was one of my symptoms.
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Re: 'Puter help
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2009, 12:25:37 PM »

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Re: 'Puter help
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2009, 02:33:02 AM »
Also, try power cycling your router. If that doesn't help, power cycle your cable modem (unplug power for a few seconds).