Having an Incredible Hard time websurfing Anymore

[Rink]

I am just BARELY able to read a couple things if even at that on the FC forums, before the net connection bottoms out completely on me, it seems like I have 5 minutes of intolerably slow connection, then boom its out, then I have to reboot the machine and back at clicking and re-clicking and refreshing constantly Just to get ONE page to come up.

This is just getting worse and worse and worse.

I've scanned this machine ten ways to sunday and I just cannot find out WHY my net connection keeps bottoming out on me or barely works worth a damn.

Theres no sense in having a net if i cant get it to function anymore, and there's no sense in paying the price I pay for Internet Connection when I cant hardly get it to function worth a damn.

I'm out of options, I just have absolutely no idea what to do anymore.

I read a thread, then click the main button and it hangs and hangs and hangs then it either wont work or it gives me no page found thing, then I have to refresh to get it to come up and sometimes THAT dont even work.

Last night going through Drudgereport and worldnetdaily was an exercise in misery of clicking constantly the link buttons or waiting for the page to S-L-O-W-L-Y load or it goes out on me and I have to close the browser window and/or reboot the machine just to get to the story I wanted to read.

This is becoming impossible anymore.

Any ideas on what to do to find out why this is happening would be VERY much appreciated.

[Wolfcounsel]

It's probably your connection people. When I have this problem, I just check my son's computer. If they're both acting the same, that's what it usually is.

[SmellyFed]

Rink - What kind of connection/ISP do you have? Dial-up, DSL, Cable etc?
Test your connection ... http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

This may or may not apply to you but DSL connections are dedicated connections whereas Cable connections are shared bandwidth. Cable is crazy-fast but you share it with your entire neighborhood... if some folks in your vicinity are doing some monster-downloading it will affect your speed directly.

It's always a good idea to do a hard reset of your DSL or cable modem. Power everything down and then literally unplug the modem from the wall and let it sit there for 20-30 seconds before plugging it back in and firing your machine back up.

It sounds to me like your ISP is having some trouble - if cold-booting your modem doesn't work, I'd call 'em.

[Rink]

I'm loosing my temper here, this is becoming totally intolerable, I havent been able to post, or send an email and have been having a HELL of a time trying to just stay online here.

[Rink]

I have a 3Com Home Connect Modem and a Netgear RP614 router, I have e-Trust AV and did an Antivirus scan, a adware scan I've booted the PC I've cycled the modem and router I've gotten into the router and its havin a hella hard time reconnecting, I've had to reboot the modem and literally reset it in the back as well.

And I am STILL having a damn hard time staying connected here.

I am friggin at a loss here as to what the bloody problem is

[SmellyFed]

Yeah you need to call your provider... I had problems like that once and it was my DSL line. They had to come out and rewire it.

[Rink]

have had em rewire it and they screwed up, the phone company had to correct the problems, then my ISP told me the phone company screwed up, all the while I was mainly up a creek with no net connection for almost a week while they wrangled back and forth over who screwed up on the wiring.

Ever since I got DSL its been a bear on and off to kep this connection.

I'm bout to switch providers from gorge.net to sprint, because I get my phone thru sprint, and its fast becoming clear to me my current ISP people dunno squat when it comes to correct wiring of a DSL phone line.

I'm cringing over the day they come here to 'check the lines' as I'm prolly gonna be fighting tooth and bloody nail to get a net connection when they start mucking with things yet again, they have a 'ticket' thing to have someone come out here sometimes this week to check everything.

And I know its never gonna be easy, these people at my ISP are used to dealing with dimwits who dunno the front end to that of the back end of a puter, and when I talk to em they get condescending towards me when I tellem all the probs I have.

I may have a temper but hey its for a VERY good reason I'm paying thru the nose for this DSL $49.95/month for it.

And I dont even get 24/7 support service either
9am to 5pm sat and sun, then 8am to 7pm mon - fri, thats it, and if you have probs after that time well gee, yer SOL aintcha?

[DoctorDoom]

If you use IE, have you purged the browser's cache? Tools > Internet Options > Delete files. If the cache is full, it will bog you down fiercely.

[Rink]

I think it was completely on my ISP's end, and they gave me the runaround over it.

Kept me on the phone waiting for someone to answer for an HOUR!

I know AT&T got sued for keeping people waiting on their phones for tech help on the part of their ISP for less than that!

[Rhino]

Thought that was AOL????

[Rink]

O heavens no its not AOL, dont think AO-Hell charges $49.95/month for DSL service.

This ISp is used to dealing with idiot customers that dont have any other option but to pay a fortune thru the nose for basic services in these parts (all thanks to that odious Gorge Legislation, and the lack of decent competition) these guys can get away with charging such ungodly fortunes nobody else in would pay with decent competition elsewhere.

Edit: I heard the company that got sued was AT&T broadband (or net service)

[Rhino]

No, I meant I thought it was AOL that got sued. But heck, with our litigation happy society, it's a wonder they all haven't been sued by now!

Is it working now?

[Rink]

Well now I dunno it may have been AOL, I just thought it had been AT&T?

[SmellyFed]

Perhaps you've already looked into it, but Verizon DSL is only $14.95/mo.

See if you have Verizon DSL access in your area. (http://www22.verizon.com/forhomedsl/channels/dsl/bridge/cj.asp?promotion_code=JUNCT/W04&AID=2331525&PID=1814424)

[Rink]

There is no verizon DSL in my area, only Sprint (Sprint goes thru earthlink for their DSL) and Saw.net and gorge.net thats it.

And they're ALL expensive but the thing of it is, I've been with Gorge.net for so long my email addy is old and I have a lot of newsletters that come into that old emailbox, it'd be a pure pain-in-the-butt to have to switch ALL that to a new service, thats whats making me hesitate switching.

I was on compuserve many many moons ago, t hen went to gorge.net, then been with gorge.net ever since then (been on the net I think for over 10 years)

[Rhino]

Damn! I forgot all about Compuserve. I had them before Al Gore invented the internet, when I had my Commodore 64!

[SmellyFed]

I suggest signing up for a gmail account in anticipation of a possible switch.

Yeah it'd be a pain in the butt to resubscribe to email newslists and such but the alternative that you've described might be worse.

[Rink]

Damn! I forgot all about Compuserve. I had them before Al Gore invented the internet, when I had my Commodore 64!

LMAO I can one up ya Rhino, in the 80's I had one of the TRS-80 microcomputers, one of the first few with a numerical keypad on it (the older TRS-80 microcomputers didnt have a numerical keypad till later)

All 16k worth of HUGE memory :hahaha:

[SmellyFed]

LMAO I can one up ya Rhino, in the 80's I had one of the TRS-80 microcomputers, one of the first few with a numerical keypad on it (the older TRS-80 microcomputers didnt have a numerical keypad till later)

All 16k worth of HUGE memory :hahaha:

I bought a MC-10 in about 1983 with 4k of memory.

http://atom.physics.calpoly.edu/Calcs/Comps/mc10_01.JPG

Mowed lawns all summer for that.

[Rhino]

VIC-20 in 1983. Rink I had my C-64 in the early 80's too, before the Trash-80 was invented.

[BarryC]

Okay. Nobody mentioned this yet. Is cable internet available in your area? I have Comcast Highspeed Internet. It's a lot faster than DSL (you won't notice much with regular websites, but when you download large files, that's where you will notice the speed), and it's nearly 100% reliable. I think we end up having a problem maybe once or twice in a year, and it's not always their fault.
In this situation here, I live in my grandmother's basement, and her house is attached to my parents' house. My dad gets the Comcast internet, and I get to share it from his router. I don't know what he pays per month. He is using it on 5 or 6 computers besides mine, but all using one connection.

[Rink]

no cable here, wont be for a long time, you know how it is, this is a 'National Scenic Area', cant have those pesky things such as modernity creeping in too fast and making the price of DSL, cable and other such services cheaper.

(sorry for the sarcasm)

[BarryC]

I understand. I live in the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve. Just in the last couple years they put up cell phone towers in some locations up in the preservation area. That's the strictest zone here. I was surprised that it was allowed. I think they are ugly and stick out like a sore thumb. It should never have happened, but that's another story.
Well I hope you get it all figured out. I used to hate my old dial-up, and that's when it was working properly.

[dajoga]

Rink--doesn't those dish TV satelites have DSL?

[DoctorDoom]

I have one of these li'l buggers (http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html) that still works.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ts1000.JPG

It's a membrane keyboard, and programs in BASIC. To my knowledge, there was no software available for it, and it had 2K of RAM (with plug-ins that expanded it up to 64K -- I have the 16K version). I didn't buy the cassette recorder, so any programs went into the Great Bit Bucket in The Sky on power-down.

It was fun to play with, but it was useless.

[DoctorDoom]

Rink--doesn't those dish TV satelites have DSL?There are a few satellite Internet providers such as Direcway, WildBlue and StarBand. They're good for areas where broadband will never be had by cable or DSL, but they have limitations. For online gamers, they're useless due to "latency", delays introduced by the signal travelling about 50,000 miles round trip. They're also affected by weather, particularly heavy storm clouds.

I've been looking into the possibility, but the cost is still unjustifiable in terms of what I do online.