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IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 2:25 am
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Recently upgraded to highspeed connection (ADSL) from dialup. Before getting it,
I installed a NIC (netgear fa311). Just for fun, I changed my computer name, and
workgroup name to something more personal, from the OEMComputer that was in it. Do
I ever wish I'd left that alone... in hindsight.
On rebooting, which it asked (demanded, actually :) ) it rebooted badly, which is
to say, locked up. When I turned off the computer, it went into safe mode, and I
rebooted again. This finally allowed it to come up normally, although seems to take
longer. I've heard that's because of the NIC.
Anyways, without the highspeed connection yet, I dialed up with the modem to make
sure I hadn't messed that up, but I noticed the that my IE was a little sluggish.
Sometimes, when clicking on a link, it would sit for about 30 seconds or more before
proceeding to the page.
Now that the highspeed is hooked up, I've been having troubles with it dropping the
connection from the server. This can run anywhere from a 2 minute to my record 2
hour connection. That would be the PPPoE client that does this. The only way to reconnect
is to reboot. The line's been checked, the adsl modem has been reset, so I don't
think it's a hardware or line problem. It smells like a software problem, and I've
triple checked the client's settings, worked with the ISP tech support, run sfc (no
files bad) and I'm scratching my head.
Anyways, sorry for the novel, but I thought I'd share my troubleshooting. My main
question is: I think I've corrupted a file or somesuch. Where can I look next for
the trouble? Carol posted a response to someone who was having sluggish IE troubles,
and I will try running the scanreg /opt and scanreg /fix next. I had previously run
Norton's registry optimizer, but that hasn't had any affect. Norton, which usually
finds windows errors, hasn't found any lately.
Anybody have some ideas? You people are always great at coming up with things I wouldn't
think of...
thanks in advance,
Rob
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 3:49 am
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
That should be: scanreg /fix /opt , on the one line. It's quicker that way.
IE5.5 does NOT have sufficient security against hackers these days and, like me,
you will find that an ADSL connection leaves you VERY vulnerable to hackers and SpyWare!
Be warned! I use IE6.0 with NO problem on ME ... AND ... '98se. Now that support
has dropped for 5.5 time for 6.0!
Download the IE6.0 SP 1 Installer from the MAIN WINDOWS DOWNLOAD site MS DOWNLOADS
Then use IEradicator to remove IE completely from your system and re-install after
running scandisk & and defrag.
Then fully update your system at the Windows Up-Date site for ALL system-critical
and security up-dates: Windows Update
I use Norton Utilities and NIS but I also find that this program is a BIG-HELP and
it's called BIG-FIX.COM
For the general SpyWare problem try this lot. I use them all:
Automatic Deletion of TIF, TEMP & index.dat files. DELINDEX
And for all other temp files: EMPTEMP 2.0
SPYBOT-SD DOWNLOAD
AdAware 6.0
SpywareBlaster SpywareGuard
Pest Patrol
ERASER
TUNING '98/ME!
Mac
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 5:24 am
Posted by Elizabeth Gernon
(17 messages posted)
Up grade IE 5.5 to 6.0. I've been usin 6.0 for 3 years.
On Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 2:25 am, Robben wrote:
>Recently upgraded to highspeed connection (ADSL) from dialup. Before getting it,
>I installed a NIC (netgear fa311). Just for fun, I changed my computer name, and
>workgroup name to something more personal, from the OEMComputer that was in it.
Do
>I ever wish I'd left that alone... in hindsight.
>
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 8:06 am
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Before wiping out the IE5.5 with that IEradicator program, should I be saving any
info, like my address book, or any bookmarks? Sounds like it cleans it pretty thoroughly.
Does it touch the Outlook Express? I know from updating it through M$s site, it updates
the Outlook mail program. (one of the salesreps here at work accidentally updated
IE5.5 to IE6 while getting a simple critical fix) Your fix of how to go to the new
browser is more an uninstall/install than 'upgrade'.
The thing is, we have IE5.5 at work, hooked up to the same kind of ADSL, same ISP,
with the exception of a hub for shared access, and it works just fine. One of my
main concerns is that besides my copy of 5.5 at home is sluggish, which just started
doing this after installing the NIC, it's dropping the internet connection. It's
either line noise, which I think it isn't, or it's a simple thing I'm missing. I
want to see if I can fix the connection issue, before upgrading. I can't see why
using 5.5 shouldn't work. I understand the security issues, but... do you know what
I mean?
Upgrading aside, I want to know why it's dropping the connection first. Maybe I should
have rearranged the subject line for order of preference in questions. ;)
You've made some excellent points for cleaning the system of the sludge that builds,
and I'm definitely getting into some of those. I already use Spy-Bot, thanks to hearing
about it from this excellent forum a couple months ago.
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 1:00 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33640 messages posted)
You probably should physically recheck your NIC installation. If your main problem
is dropping connection, I wouldn't think it would be an I. E. problem. This happened
after you installed it, so that sounds reasonable.
Just a thought, but did you try restoring a known good registry backup soon after?
I don't know what changing your computer name would have to do with it, but....
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re: IE5.5
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 1:59 pm
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
You should definitely keep backups of address book mail and favorites anyway. I burn
those I want to keep to a CD-RW which can then be up-dated.
When MS drops support for software there is usually a good reason .......
Your ISP should check out your line and, possibly, you should check the consistency
of your power supply and as to whether you have any unsupressed electrical equipment,
refrigerator or other, which may cause a spike affecting your computer.
You MUST also use a firewall. Zone Alarm is free, and so is AVG Grisoft Anti-Virus.
Mac
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 3:47 pm
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
I will recheck the physical installation, but I've been putting that off as the ISP
keeps insisting it's line noise or some such. I did reinstall the NIC's software,
but it didn't seem to make any difference. The only reason I suspected the name change
was the crash after changing those items. I suspected a bad registry change, as when
it booted up, it went into safe mode. But rebooting again put it back to normal.
I checked in the registry for the old entries, and they were gone, with the exception
of one in software that I haven't used since adding a harddisk (xxcopy). It just
lists the key "server_1" as "OEMCOMPUTER", under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software\Pixelab\XXCOPY
but whether that refers to my workgroup name or computer name... they were both the
same before the change. I'll look at everything suspect at this point. :) Will be
making a few points under the other post as well. No, I didn't use a previous backup
of the registry... Didn't think of it.
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re: IE5.5
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 3:57 pm
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Thanks. I will make backups shortly of those things. Promise. ;)
I should know better. I had heard they dropped support for it, but the 'good' reason
I had heard about was that it doesn't support the .net framework and doesn't have
the added 'MS spyware' abilities that 6.0 has, similar to what I've been hearing
about with XP's software. I'm leery on the knowledge of the spyware, be it maybe
rumour only, but the .net framework, or lack of, in IE5.5 was one of the main reasons
for dumping it. I probably will upgrade shortly, as the salesrep is using it, and
it seems to be behaving on his 98se (90mhz pentium, if you can believe it) quite
well.
My ISP is Ma Bell here, and I'm just off the phone with the lineman. He checked the
lines, and had the office do a line test. He made a couple of alterations, mentioning
some part, or couple of parts, that shouldn't be on the line, and removed them. He
said they mainly only affect the speed, but who knows. He's just a linesman, so doesn't
get into the ADSL modem or computer end of things. The line as far as the modem is
checked out and supposedly good. He suspects if I still have problems, it could be
the modem itself. Tomorrow should tell. I'm online right now, but only at 50 minutes
so far. The reason for coming here and hitting you people up was in the hopes it
was some buggy thing in Windows that I could fix... It may still, and if nothing
else, I should end up with a cleaner Windows and a new 6.0 browser. :) I've needed
to do a little housekeeping for awhile. Thanks for all your help so far. I'll keep
you posted on what happens next.
Once I get this connection to stay active until I decide to disconnect, I'll invest
in a firewall. I've heard good things about ZoneAlarm, besides the price... I just
don't need another layer of software to troubleshoot the problem yet.
Robben
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Friday, April 4, 2003 at 7:33 am
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Physically reinstalled the NIC and software, and reinstalled the PPPoE client from
ISP. Pulled the modem out, and put the NIC in it's PCI slot. So far, it seems to
be working. Haven't had a chance to test it out fully, for long connect times, and
as sleep and work have interfered in play time ;) but at least the weekend is coming.
It hasn't disconnected on its own, yet. I don't think I needed to pull the modem,
and maybe later, I'll put it back in just to see. No conflicts were ever reported,
but I was desperate. Sometimes, Carol, ya just gotta take the cover off. Thanks for
your suggestions.
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re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Friday, April 4, 2003 at 12:00 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33640 messages posted)
You're welcome, and I hope you get it sorted out.
    
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