Very slow browsing and downloads

Willic53 · 13-09-2005, 18:38

Help required please.
My browsing and download speeds have been getting slower and slower recently and Telewest support is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

Pentium 3 800Mhz 256 Mb SB4100 Cable modem 1Mb line

Tried everything I can think of and also a load of stuff suggested by trawling the net (slowly)
Now that you don't have to have a pre-assigned MAC I tried plugging my work laptop into the modem and got instant and significant increase. So it would seem that it's a problem with my home pc.

Netstat doesn't show any backdoor stuff but I do have about 12 TCP entries - partially made up by my home network.

Tried disconnecting my home network with no significant improvement

Anyone got any ideas please?

marky · 13-09-2005, 18:47

hi and welcome it could be some nasty spyware i'm sure there will be a nice person along soon with some links to help

Willic53 · 13-09-2005, 19:41

Thanks for the encouragement. I've run up-to-date Spybot and regularly run Pest Patrol and Ad-Aware

13-09-2005, 22:51

Have you tried this, as you're a telewest customer:

http://www.cable-forum.com/article/1...unches-pcguard

Willic53 · 14-09-2005, 11:07

I already use Zone Alarm as my firewall