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Internet Troubles


Question Posted Sunday March 11 2007, 1:09 am

For the last two days, I've been having problems with my internet. I use a wireless connection to my downstairs computer, and my mbps is usually about 11 mbps. Anyway, the last two days, Limewire has told me it's connected (Don't say it's from that, I already ran every scan program I have and picked up nothing). My Skype says it's connected as well. So basically, everything works and is connected, even Counter Strike.


However, my web browsers are going VERY slow, enough for me to think I'm not connected to the internet, when I am. What happens is it takes nearly a minute to go page to page at times, and sometimes it times out entirely. The only time that it's at it's normal speed is when I repair it, and I have about 15 seconds of normalcy and then it starts lagging again.


So basically, I'm at a loss for what the problem is.


If anyone could help in the least, that would be excellent. It would not be helpful for you to say "lol idk much about computors bUtt u shuld take it to best buy and get it fixed hope i helped!".


If you have any questions, just state them and I'll inbox you.


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theymos answered Sunday March 11 2007, 8:57 pm:
Close your web browser and stop limewire, and then go to start>run and type "cmd" without quotes. Then type exactly this and press enter:

netstat -b

It will give you a list of programs that are using the internet. Try individually closing each program it lists, until the problem is resolved. If that doesn't work, send me more info by doing this at the command prompt:

netstat -b >C:log23.txt

if it doesn't return you to the prompt after 5 minutes, press ctrl+c. Then download HijackThis, here: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Run it and save a log file. Send both log23.txt(located in C:) and the hijackthis log to me at theymos@lycos.com .

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Advicelady6798 answered Sunday March 11 2007, 8:52 pm:
The reason this is happening is you have so many viruses in your system that the scanner can 't pick them all up. The best thing is to wipe the entire computer clean then start from scratch. My computer did exactly what you described so I wiped it clean and it showed I ha dover 1000 viruses that were not picked up. I know you probably wo't want to re-download what you have but it is the only way to get the computer to properly work the way it is suppose to.

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