Xp, internet works then doesn't

[mosprovider]

Okay heres the story.

Im trying to access the internet and as soon as I come back from a reboot yahoo and a maybe 2 other pages I radomly select work. I have noticed the images take a while to load.

Then all goes to hell. I cant get any pages to load or even search for the page. Ive used firefox and internet exporler on this at a test. Still nothing.

What I have installed.

Macafee 8.0
Adaware
spybot

All searches come up clear expect a dso exploit with spybot.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[KeyserSoze]

If it's still happening, I have no idea.

But I do know that over the last week, Comcast has been having nationwide problems. Something about DNS issues. Don't know if they fixed them, and if it's only at nights.

Check the threads in Off-Topic for more details.





KeyserSoze

 

[mosprovider]

well i dont know if thats the problem by anymeans. My ISP is Consolidated at home and Cox Communications at work. (Laptop)

My feeling is its either spyware or some setting in my network connection that I am not aware of.

Still happens though...

 

[kornphlake]

I've had the same problem since I downloaded the latest critical updates. I tried running system restore last night but that didn't seem to solve the problem. I tried limiting my baud rate to 19.5kbps and that didn't help either. I'm thinking it's about time for a fresh install but XP has been pretty stable for me in the past and this install is only about a year old I've done frequent virus/spyware scans and definition updates, so I don't think that's a problem.

 

[mechBgon]

This might help: Security during Windows Setup and initial connection

 

[kornphlake]

maybe I'm just not reading between the lines, but I didn't find your link to include any helpful information for this particular problem. The site had lots of nice information that I probabally should have known anyway, but I didn't see anything directly related to internet connection speed or how it's affected by updates beyond the initial installation and a few routine security precatuions. Was there a particular link on the page that I was supposed to follow but missed somehow?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: kornphlake
maybe I'm just not reading between the lines, but I didn't find your link to include any helpful information for this particular problem. The site had lots of nice information that I probabally should have known anyway, but I didn't see anything directly related to internet connection speed or how it's affected by updates beyond the initial installation and a few routine security precatuions. Was there a particular link on the page that I was supposed to follow but missed somehow?

I was aiming more at the original poster's problem, sorry about that Try pinging your ISP's DNS servers, you know how to do that?