My DSL slows to a crawl every few minutes

[trgreen2]

Had it for about 3 months now. At first it was running at about 110kbps up/500down. After visiting dslreports I get average 120up/1000down! But, I still have this problem which pops up every few minutes, Ill be surfing along, clicking on one page after another, each one taking no more than a second or two to load, and bam! I have to wait a minute or so for the next page. Sometimes the progress bar will crawl across the top, or Ill get nothing at all, hit refresh a few times, go back, etc. Nothing helps except having to wait a minute or so, and then Ill be back to normal, at least for a few more minutes. This is not site related. Is it my ISP (Earthlink), or is it some setting on my system? It almost seems like some memory file somewhere is filling up, and then takes time to reset itself. Any ideas? Thanks.

ABIT be6
Celeron566@850
128mb ram
Geforce 2 GTS
Win 98

 

[PCAddict]

Who is the DSL provider? I am experiencing similar things with Verizon.

 

[trgreen2]

I use Earthlink through BellSouth in Florida (the now infamous banana republic of Dade County!)

 

[zuffy]

Remove your TCP/IP protocol for your NIC or enter a static IP (192.168.100.x and subnet mask 255.255.255.0) in your TCP/IP properties.

 

[zuffy]

BTW, I have Verizon. This problem don't show up in Windows NT or Windows 2000 but I experience it in Win9x and ME. With the static IP, my Windows ME perform as well as my Windows 2000... not pauses between clicks in the browser.

 

[TheKidd]

I have an identical problem. I am running Windows 98, do you think that if I switch to Windows ME, that will solve the problem? I don't want to switch over to Windows 2000 if it is avoidable, but if my dsl is f'ed up, I may have no choice, thanks.

 

[zuffy]

You don't need to upgrade to Windows ME or Windows 2000... again, either remove your TCP/IP protocol for your NIC or assign a static IP address to it. This will resolve your problem if you're running Win95, Win98, & WinME.

 

[TheKidd]

I do have a static ip and it still does that timeing out crap.

 

[TheKidd]

I do have a static ip and it still does that timeing out crap.

 

[zuffy]

If you not using the NIC for LAN, you can remove the TCP/IP protocol for your NIC and see if that improves the performance. Basically, Win9x is trying to looking for a DHCP server to assign an IP address for your NIC causing intermittent time outs.