Web pages take a long time to load but everything else is fine?

[Gundam]

For some reason web pages have started to take an insanely long time to load (minutes to load a page) however my network connection appears to be fine. Torrent files are downloading at a normal rate, and windows cannot find anything wrong with the connection. Reseting my modem and router did not fix the issue.

 

[Crusty]

Sounds like a DNS problem. Try using either opendns' servers or 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 for DNS to see if it goes away.

 

[Gundam]

how would I go about changing the DNS servers?

 

[Crusty]

You can either specify it on an individual computer by going through Control Panel and editing the TCP/IP settings for your Network Connection, or you can change it in the router and all computers hooked up to it will be affected by it.

 

[JackMDS]

Better try it in the Router's WAN port rather to mess up the TCP/IP stack.

 

[Gundam]

Hmm changing the DNS servers on both my comp and router didnt seem to work :\

 

[Tarrant64]

Have you always been able to download torrents without it slowing down your internet connection? What happens if you aren't downloading anything? Depending on the client (like Azures, sp?) it can kill your WAN traffic. I use uTorrent as that seemed to fix the problem.

I wouldn't think changing the DNS servers would improve anything. Does this happen in both IE7, Google Chrome, and Firefox(assuming you have more than 1 browser)?

 

[Gundam]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Have you always been able to download torrents without it slowing down your internet connection? What happens if you aren't downloading anything? Depending on the client (like Azures, sp?) it can kill your WAN traffic. I use uTorrent as that seemed to fix the problem.

I wouldn't think changing the DNS servers would improve anything. Does this happen in both IE7, Google Chrome, and Firefox(assuming you have more than 1 browser)?

I use Utorrent and it's the same if I pause everything. Even when I was maxing out my torrent speeds, I was able to browse at a reasonable, albeit slow speed. But now, pages aren't loading whatsoever for 10 minutes.

It happens in both IE7 and Firefox.

 

[Tarrant64]

Hmm...not sure why it would need to change but taking a look at the MTU, maybe set it to 1492/1500. not sure exactly what number will work. I've had users at a remote site have issues due to an MTU size not being right. Tried changing it in the registry on their PCs but didn't want to have to touch each one manually even though it fixed the problem. Ended up being the firewall needing to set the MTU.

 

[seepy83]

What do you run for Antivirus/Firewall software?

I recently saw a PC acting similarly, and it was due to Norton Internet Security's Phising Protection being turned on.