speed test

i have been having this problem for months. using some sites the network stalls. like on youtube. if i connect to a VPN the problem stops. my wife's computer on the same network and router "both wired btw not wifi." has no problem. if i do a speed test it runs at full speed and other websites...

My son has a Win10 gaming desktop computer and I run Linux Mint 19.3 on my own desktop. Both are on the same home WIFI network. My ISP furnishes a nominal 40Mbps down cable internet service. When Ookla speed test is run on the Win10 (Chrome) the result is 3-4Mbps down. Same test on my...

I have a six-month-old Dell laptop and a 10-year-old Dell desktop. Everything works just fine on the laptop. But on the desktop, both local and national news station videos will not download without pauses, though YouTube and similar ones work fine. I have the same 5G Internet on both...

Hello! I saw this active forum and just created an account hoping to get some awesome help from all of you. Randomly, my newly built computer will crash and automatically restart. It crashes running a speed test, browsing the internet, or just sitting there. I have played many intense games as...

My grown son is staying with us (no snide remarks, please) and is a gamer. He has an Xbox and a very fast new Win10 gaming desktop (although he had the same problem with his previous Win7 system). Both are connected via wifi to the house dual band AC router on a 40Mbs down, 4Mbps up cable from...

This is the speed test between Google Chrome VS FireFox VS Opera VS Microsoft Edge😍 Speed Test on Windows 10. 💗 It has an unexpected result. Link Removed What is the fastest browser of 2019 ? Who Would Win? Microsoft Edge better than other browser? Google Chrome VS FireFox VS Opera VS...

Stay away from the "Rivet Networks - Killer Gigabit Ethernet Controller" card driver. My cousin who lives with me has an Alienware gaming laptop. It was never able to transfer data as fast as my Realtek NIC. His has the Killer NIC. We have crazy fast fiber optic internet here but his could never...

I got my new alienware 13 r2 6 days, only played lol, ping was jump as high as 3400, in game 10 mins BSOD comes shows DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL(qcamain 10*64.sys) checked with dell software shows that killer 1535 network adapter driver cause system crash, if I'm normal use, its will be fun...

I recently purchased a new machine with Windows 8.1 on it and an Intel Ethernet Connection 1218-V adapter with a rated speed of 100 Mbps. I have connected it to my home network. The layout is as shown In attachment. All of the computers get, according to speed test (I'd provide a link but that...

Maybe, some will find this interesting. I am running Windows 10 on a 2 processor, 4GB RAM, VM Host is i7 w/ 8GB RAM. Boot after entering P/W is basically instant. General operation speed is mostly a matter of can I click fast enough to keep pace w/ it, as in WHOOOOSH! Anyway, here's the...

The internet on my laptop is randomly extremely slow on wifi. For instance, when I run a speed test, the download speed will be around 15 Mbps which is normal performance and a few minutes later will not even crack 1 mbp. No other computer on my network is as slow as this. I'm posting from my...

Hi guys, really need your help. Win7 64-bit So a week ago I needed to have access to a printer/scanner (Brother) in my home. I installed the software/drivers and unplugged the ethernet cable from one of the modem ports into a Linksys router. Everything was just fine except anything over the...

Hello, Over the past week or so, my internets upload speed has been horrendous, with the highest i have tested it as being 19 KBps (from testmy.net and from a few other sources as well), meanwhile, my download speed is absolutely fine. To make sure this was a problem with windows, I booted into...

A couple of weeks ago I installed Windows 8 (fresh install from scratch, not an update) on my computer. I do a lot of web browsing and over the last couple of weeks I've been using Windows 8, I could swear the web browsing wasn't as fast at it used to be on Windows 7. I then noticed I was...

Hey everyone, just downloaded and installed 8 Pro. I love it, but my internet is extremely slow now. My wife and I were streaming netflix last night and it kept buffering. It never did this on W7. I just did a speed test on my phone and got 4.9 Mbps. I did the test on my laptop and I got .89...

We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that. I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III...

Link Removed DNS Jumper is a light application to easily change the DNS on the computer in a short time. DNS Jumper also provides a lot of DNS server list such as Google DNS, Open DNS, Ultra DNS, Exatel, Century, Cisco, Open Nic and many more. Also, this application can be used in portable...

Just had a laugh at BT's expense, they rang me trying to flog me BT-broadband... they tried to tell me the max my line can support is 3.5mb, I told them outright they need to check that because on BE ISP i've had 2+ years with actual speeds of never less than 9mb, usually 10-12mb from a 24mb...

So I just got this new Toshiba laptop and have been trying to stream videos at the apartment that I'm staying at over the shared wireless internet and its not going to well. I keep getting lag spikes like crazy every 15 - 20 seconds and the wireless internet connection should be enough to...

I am rather interested in this ploy by Virgin . The fury of other ISP'S is not really surprising :) You should be getting what you pay for. Whether it’s a full pint in the pub, forty miles to the gallon or your broadband speeds. But millions of internet users are being short changed every day...