Latency Error during speed test

[kater1]

Here lately when I go to Speedtest.net I get a latency error on my desktop. Every other computer in the house is fine. If I restart the computer all is good with it. I ussaly takes about a week before I notice the slow down and check my speed.

The computer is on 24/7. And most of the time I leave firefox open with a webpage I have been looking at.

Any suggestions?

Thansk

Bill



Dell Optiplex 990
i5-2400
12GB ram
Windows 7 pro 64-bit

 

[Ketchup]

I would say that you should be rebooting a Windows 7 computer on a weekly basis anyway. I can go a bit longer on Windows 10 without noticing slowdowns, but not so much with 7. But it's still an improvement. With '98 we were lucky to get a full day out of it before running out of memory.

 

[VirtualLarry]

LOL. My friend used to leave his Windows 7 booted, with Firefox running, for weeks at a time. He also constantly called me, complaining about lag and internet and PC slowdowns.

I finally trained him, to reboot the PC, when he starts to notice "lag", and then check if it's still doing that when rebooted. Chances are, it won't.

He's got a 120GB-class MLC SATA6G SSD. Last time I checked, he had it up to 80% full, so perhaps that's starting to cause a little lag here and there too. It was really bad when he was using a 30GB (OK, his first SSD, mine too, running earlier / less-updated Windows 7 64-bit) SSD, that ran out of space rather quickly. But it was more affordable, back in the early days of SSD. I upgraded him to his current 120GB-class drive in a year or so, after he started seeing a bunch of "lag".