- Jun 3, 2001
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My ISP is a long range wireless rural type company. It used to work OK, downloads would consistently get 150KB/s and webpages would load just fine.
Now... not so much. Web pages load SLOW, they'll constantly freeze up partly loaded. Connecting to... until it times out is a regular occurrence, or it'll just freeze at Transferring data... until the page times out. I'm already running OpenDNS and I've tried the ISP's DNS to the same effect. However, if the page doesn't get "stuck" on anything, pages load fast as hell.
Now for the twist... downloads and gaming are working fine. Completely fine. I can boot up TF2 and play with no lag and 170ms pings.
Double twist: It's affecting all computers on the network, so it's not spyware/virus related.
My theory right now is something is buggered up on the transmit side of the wireless. If packets are failing to send in gaming, they're simply resent. With downloads, no packets are needed to be sent while it downloads just fine. But if the browser makes a request to load a page...and that request fails to transmit, nothing happens because the browser won't retry the request. 90% of the time if I click a link 3-4 times, it'll load just fine, as if I'm retrying a request.
Otherwise, what the heck would make web browsing slow with gaming and downloads working just fine?
Now... not so much. Web pages load SLOW, they'll constantly freeze up partly loaded. Connecting to... until it times out is a regular occurrence, or it'll just freeze at Transferring data... until the page times out. I'm already running OpenDNS and I've tried the ISP's DNS to the same effect. However, if the page doesn't get "stuck" on anything, pages load fast as hell.
Now for the twist... downloads and gaming are working fine. Completely fine. I can boot up TF2 and play with no lag and 170ms pings.
Double twist: It's affecting all computers on the network, so it's not spyware/virus related.
My theory right now is something is buggered up on the transmit side of the wireless. If packets are failing to send in gaming, they're simply resent. With downloads, no packets are needed to be sent while it downloads just fine. But if the browser makes a request to load a page...and that request fails to transmit, nothing happens because the browser won't retry the request. 90% of the time if I click a link 3-4 times, it'll load just fine, as if I'm retrying a request.
Otherwise, what the heck would make web browsing slow with gaming and downloads working just fine?
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