In the last couple months or so, my main PC has become incredibly flaky when it comes to surfing the web. I'll type in a URL and about half the time it will hang with the page half-loaded and somehow completely stall my internet (ie- if I open another tab to load a different page, that page won't load either). This seems to be most common on things like news sites where a whole mess of urls are accessed to fill out the content on the main page.
After a minute or so, I'll get an error message as if my connection were completely out. If I then click the "try again" button, the page loads just fine. I have tried this with firefox (and in safe mode) as well as IE and it's always the same. My wife's laptop connected to the same network via wifi has no such issues. I've run multiple virus/malware scans and as far as I know the system is completely clean. I'm aware comcast has DNS issues so I've also played around with google dns and opendns to no avail.
Is my NIC dying or something? I'm pretty much at a loss here. 🙁
After a minute or so, I'll get an error message as if my connection were completely out. If I then click the "try again" button, the page loads just fine. I have tried this with firefox (and in safe mode) as well as IE and it's always the same. My wife's laptop connected to the same network via wifi has no such issues. I've run multiple virus/malware scans and as far as I know the system is completely clean. I'm aware comcast has DNS issues so I've also played around with google dns and opendns to no avail.
Is my NIC dying or something? I'm pretty much at a loss here. 🙁
