Sudden problems...

nick84 · 13-06-2006, 18:37

Hi there all, new to these forums so go easy on me

Basically over the last week or so ive been having problems with my Internet connection (2mb NTL via cable modem), ive changed nothing, its just happened suddenly.

To give you a rough image of my setup here, I have my cable modem hooked up to a Linksys wireless router with a PC in the location wired to the router, and my main PC upstairs connected via wireless. May I point out here, that the PC connected via wire to the router is fine, perfect in fact, no connection problems at all.

My problem is with my main PC upstairs, its connected via wireless but I have trouble accessing certain sites on the net, some sites like this one, work perfectly but others take an age to load or simply dont load at all. My wireless signal is great, it never drops, I download at 240k/sec constantly, and I can play all my online games fine with the same latency as my wired PC. I just seem to have a problem with about 50% of websites I want to view. This must be an internal problem as my PC downstairs isnt affected so it cant be the connection itself.

So far ive run a full virus check, full spyware check, installed the latest firmware for my router as well as rebooting all the equipment etc. I could format my hard disk, but would rather not.

Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance.

MovedGoalPosts · 13-06-2006, 18:53

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Your duplicate thread on this matter has been closed.

Are you still experiencing difficulties, there were propbelms with ntl suffering attacks on their DNS servers which was creating odd effects and drop outs.

If you are still having problems, I wouldn't get drastic and reformat yet. Can you run a temporary wired cable to the PC from the router and confirm whether you get the same effects wired as well as wireless?

nick84 · 13-06-2006, 19:16

Thanks for reply, sorry for duplicate

I think, if it was an NTL problem, the PC connected downstairs would have the same problems as this one? I cant run a cable between the 2 either, not practical for various reasons.

Any other ideas?

MovedGoalPosts · 13-06-2006, 19:25

One would expect you to notice problems on both PCs if it was ntl related, but computers are strange.

Have you recently updated any drivers, patched the PC or similar on the one causing problems? Has anything changed with a firewall?

nick84 · 13-06-2006, 19:50

Nope, nothing has changed at all, just happened out of the blue as these things tend to :p

Anything i can try like a change to settings, proxy or anything? Not sure how to do any of that so havent tried.

nick84 · 14-06-2006, 12:25

Well ive seemed to sorted the problems, ive got a new proxy server which im going though and all is super fast again.

pop80_uk · 14-06-2006, 16:02

I was going to say the proxy. The other thing it may be is firewall software. 99.9% of the internet problems I used to attend were due to firewall software, namely Norton, but others mis-behaved as well.
Turn all your firewall software off and see what happens.