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re: What can I do to speed up my internet? Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:24 pm Posted by dhm (1069 messages posted) What's your antivirus? Antispyware? Are they working too hard? Do you have overlapping security? Or has your security failed and your computer has become a zombie (bot). Tho I don't think it's your problem I've found some really slow sites. The pages had fully loaded (or almost so) and data was flowing, but it took a long time to stop. One site produced a status bar message "Waiting for Digg.com". I don't care about Digg and never will. (Well, if someone wanted to pay me, then I'd jump on the bandwagon.) I used Adblock Plus, not to block an ad agency but so Digg would not waste my time again. I added Ghostery for no particular reason. It selectively blocks software that calls back somewhere to gather marketing info. Most of these people have Privacy Policies that they only use them for mass statistics. Then one of my favorite sites added a new message warning me that, duh, something was going too slowly. This happened on every page. Then I tried using Ghostery to block any companies' traces. Things speeded up. In effect these programs -- all legitimate commercial products -- are bots slowing your computer as hackers' trojans do. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What can I do to speed up my internet? Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:10 am Posted by skiextreme2 (2 messages posted) Most of the problems I have are with facebook apps. I'm running AVG Internet Security Suite and nothing else. They finally got back to me and asked me to do a few things, but I think it's the program itself. When I disabled the link scanner, I got up to 10+ Mbps. I don't know if the link scanner is all that useful as I haven't talked with anyone that know anything about it, but if it's part of the security suite, I'd like to be able to use it. I can't wait to finish building my new computer and use XP pro (for however long that lasts). At least I'll be able to pick faster AV services. Thanks for the help and I hope you (or someone else) can help me more :-) I'll check out Ghostery and see what that's all about. If it helps, I will post again. On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:24 pm, dhm wrote: > >What's your antivirus? Antispyware? Are they working too hard? > >Do you have overlapping security? > >Or has your security failed and your computer has become a zombie (bot). > >Tho I don't think it's your problem I've found some really slow sites. The pages >had fully loaded (or almost so) and data was flowing, but it took a long time to >stop. One site produced a status bar message "Waiting for Digg.com". I don't care >about Digg and never will. (Well, if someone wanted to pay me, then I'd jump on >the bandwagon.) I used Adblock Plus, not to block an ad agency but so Digg would >not waste my time again. > >I added Ghostery for no particular reason. It selectively blocks software that calls >back somewhere to gather marketing info. Most of these people have Privacy Policies >that they only use them for mass statistics. Then one of my favorite sites added >a new message warning me that, duh, something was going too slowly. This happened >on every page. Then I tried using Ghostery to block any companies' traces. > Things speeded up. In effect these programs -- all legitimate commercial products >-- are bots slowing your computer as hackers' trojans do. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What can I do to speed up my internet? Friday, November 6, 2009 at 2:36 pm Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Should ask the ISP if they have a speed test and tweaking information. If not, check out www.broadbandreports.com.. They have speed tests and tweaking information. Any ISP worth their weight should have tools to check your speed and have advice on tweaking your machine for high speed connections. For instance, I went from 3/1.5 meg DSL, to 25/25 on Verizon FIOS. I run both W2K and XP. Verizon has a speed test and a utility that checks your machine for proper settings to enable the full speed of your connection. Before applying the tweaks, I couldn't get more then 7 meg down on any machine. After the tweak utility, I could get 24 down, 25 up. Broadband reports came up with the same speed at night, less in the daytime. Just one thing to check also.. Out of the box, neither operating system was designed for the speeds of the internet connection today and need to be tweaked despite what MS says. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum