DSL dies off after a few minutes after restarting..

[Syringer]

My SBC DSL starts to slow down considerably after a few minutes after I restart my computer..it's connected through a router now but the same thing happens if I connect my modem directly to my ethernet card.

 

[rmrf]

Is it the throughput itself that is slowing down, like if you constantly run speed tests for the first 5 minutes, or does it go way up on the start of a download and then come way back down? what is the rated speed of your dsl, and from your testing or just off the top of your head, what sort of download speed do you get?

 

[Syringer]

Actually it seems to just disconnect me after a few minutes..not just slow down.

 

[Syringer]

Hmm, apparently when I disable my firewall it starts to work again..I'm using Zone Alarm. Why is that?

 

[rmrf]

maybe try uninstalling zone alarm, and then reinstall, restart the computer, and try it. if that does not work, try killing the zone alarm service, true vector, and then restarting the entire program. If you do that and it doesn't work, I would just ditch zone alarm and use something else. good luck.

 

[foshizzle]

A little off topic, I don't use a firewall right now, so I don't know much about zone alarm. But everytime I have problem(hardware or software), and search for a solution on google, I always see at least one possible fix being to turn off zone alarm. This always leads me to think that there must be some major problems with their software. Am I wrong about this assumption?

 

[rmrf]

No. That is what I found on google also. There were many cases that user either killed the process and then restarted the service, or just turned it off indefinitely and it worked. good call.

 

[FracturedSoul]

Zone Alarm is a piece of crap. Have had enough fits on different windows OS. Here is the thing... you can shut down the interface but the damned thing will still keep blocking packets. You have to actually set it to not restart, then reboot to be totally clean. Uninstalling is a PIA too, but I recommend uninstalling over tinkering with it anymore.

 

[Soybomb]

Not an uncommon issue with zonealarm even back in my tech support days, buts its still the best software firewall for noobs I think. Just remove it and then reinstall it once a year. Think of it like windows 9x

 

[FracturedSoul]

I went 3 years without re-installing windows 98se and it still ran well. You take care of it, it took care of you. If you installed all kinds of crap, let spyware run wild, didn't update drivers or defrag.... well you were asking for it.