Since both computers are having a problem it's more likely to do with your internet connection than something relating to your computers. Especially since that notebook is fine at work.
Is your desktop physically connected to the router or are both computers wireless?
Is your router secure? It may be that if it is not someone might be stealing your bandwidth.
http://www.pingtest.net/
That could be a router problem or an ISP problem. A longshot would be the DNS server you're using -- you can update it on your router by changing it to static DNS and using Google's servers as a test. Those are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Another longshot, try testing on the netbook after turning the main PC off. If it's infected by a bot, it could be flooding the network.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobile
Thanks for the replies. Yesterday DL and UL speed were fine. Ping test yielded no issues. No packets lost, it graded my connection as an A. But the issue would still appear. I hooked the ethernet cable directly from the modem (without the router), to no avail. I even restored the system. Same thing. MSE and Malwarebytes scans come clean. I have become convinced it's an ISP issue, so I'm calling them tomorrow. My connection has been significantly slower today, also.
Called today. Apparently there was some malfunctioning on the line that got fixed this afternoon. Things have improved a lot.
SteelAttack said:Called today. Apparently there was some malfunctioning on the line that got fixed this afternoon. Things have improved a lot.
Huh, what kind of an ISP fixes their problems when you tell them to? :/
My problem was that they had us down as adsl when it should be gm line dot code, whatever that means.
Foolz said:Huh, what kind of an ISP fixes their problems when you tell them to? :/
Huh? I dunno...a lame one?
SteelAttack said:Huh? I dunno...a lame one?
Yeah, they must be run by idiots.
This is not related to the site itself, but a general issue I've been having for the past couple of days.
I have noticed that practically all web sites take way more time to load than they used to, and most of the times they don't even load completely. The status bar on the right side of the adress bar in Opera shows something like 40/45 elements or so, and the cursor is stuck on the "loading" animation until I manually click the stop button on the browser. Links are hit or miss too, and many times I have to click twice or thrice on them to actually reach the linked page.
My wife and daughter have told me that their Facebook profiles take longer to load, and social games such as Farmville and the such take a long time to load, sometimes failing to load correctly.
I've checked my connection speed and it is within the expected range, 3.5Mb DL, .5 Mb UL. I have tried all browsers I have installed (Opera, Firefox, Chrome and IE), to no avail. The problem shows both on the living room desktop, and on the netbook as well. That same netbook has no problem loading the pages correctly on my work's wireless network.
Could it be a PC issue, a router issue, or is my ISP to blame?
Thanks in advance.