Started having a problem on thursday. Thought it was broadband but it's not, it's the laptop apparently. The broadband is working and thus |I'm
connected with the old steam engine with less memory than a pocket calculator which is running slower than an arthritic tortoise.
Basically the laptop says it's connected but trying to "repair" the connection says it can't clear the DNS cahche. the connectivity test says
there's a problem with the DNS server but it must be the laptop since the broadband is working weith another computer.
I haven't installed anything or changed any settings such as firewall or browser, but I can't get to any websites or get messenger on (though the Yahoo
messenger seems to connect and the Norton antivirus also seems to).
If anyone has any fucking idea what the problem is, please tell me, or I'll have to take it down to the shop for my mate James to look at.
I'm climbing the waals here. For the sake of my sanity and the young ears of my son, please help!
Problems with my broadband/laptop
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Posts: 13764 (02/02/09 22:17:55) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
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Posts: 3212 (03/02/09 08:23:47) Arch-Cynic
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Try restarting the DNS Client service through services.msc
I have never had time for privileged people in safe countries who announce that they cannot see the difference between democracy and dictatorship. I gave
up on Amnesty International when it said that Guantanamo Bay, in which the guards killed no one, was the modern equivalent of Stalin's Gulag, through which
the secret police killed millions. - Nick Cohen
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Posts: 13764 (03/02/09 13:56:40) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
cool. I'll try that and let you know if it works.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 13764 (03/02/09 14:26:37) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
DNS Client wasn't running, it was disabled. I've enabled it and started it but still nothing appears to be working.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 13764 (03/02/09 14:53:01) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
OK, I rebooted and now I have (wonder of wonders) the browser and stuff back. I don't have MSN messenger though, it won't log in but I think it's
because I'm logged in on the other computer.
Thanks Mads, if I was a girl I'd offer to have your babies about now. How the hell did it get turned off in the first place?/
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 3212 (03/02/09 15:52:10) Arch-Cynic
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Who knows.
You can still resolve DNS names without the service because as far as I know it only does DNS caching.
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor Stenger
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Posts: 13764 (03/02/09 16:46:59) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
As long as it works I don't really care, I'd just rather it didn't happen again.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 489 (04/02/09 12:59:55) |
Oddly enough, I'm on a laptop too and am having similar intermittent problems. I thought it might have been a problem with the telephone lines but after
resetting the wireless router by unplugging it for 15 seconds, it usually clears itself.
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Posts: 13764 (04/02/09 16:12:14) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
Well it was OK yesterday - I got it cleared up. Then today this morning I logged on before going to work (about 5.40AM) and it got as far as logging onto
messenger before deciding it was going to stop. Because it keeps happening after the wife has been on iWin games (and it keeps crashing) I wondered if it was
that, and uninstalled it over her strident protests, but to no avail. I've been pissing about with stuff for hours and nothing worked, then I went into the
kitchen to make a coffee while the virus checker was running a full system check (again) and lo and behold, as I come back, just before 3pm, the Realplayer
adverts have popped up at the bottom of the screen - meaning my net access was back. Weird thing is it doesn't seem to be anything I did.
Driving me fucking mad, which means I'm pissing everyone around me (ie, my darling wife) off. I'm not easy to live with when I'm on the brink of hurling the laptop through the TV screen.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 13764 (04/02/09 16:33:17) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
It keeps hanging for 30-90 seconds when I'm loading pages now, but there seems no link between them. It's happened on several websites now.
Maybe my computer is just fucked?
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 3212 (04/02/09 16:54:30) Arch-Cynic
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I'm assuming you run and update an anti-virus program.
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor Stenger
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Posts: 13764 (04/02/09 20:42:02) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
AVG, updated today, and had a full check today. Has regular full checks.
Went off for 40 mins there, came back when I disconnected and reconnected the wireless connection.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 13764 (04/02/09 21:29:45) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
It's still fucking me about.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 489 (05/02/09 13:20:49) |
Do you have anti-spyware installed? Sometimes spyware and malware is not detected by antvirus programs. They can cause problems because they are rarely
designed to be efficient and can absorb quite a lot of resources and bandwidth.
Try "Adaware" and "Spybot Search and Destroy" for starters. You might also want to try "Crap Cleaner" - I have found on the laptop that when the internet cache is large it has a big effect on performance. Sometimes Crap Cleaner does the trick on it's own but I would recommend running all three, one after the other - don't forget to do a registry check, too, with Crap Cleaner. All three programs are free. John |
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Posts: 3212 (05/02/09 15:15:17) Arch-Cynic
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Don't know Crap Cleaner but the other two are definitely excellent suggestions.
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php http://www.safer-networki...rg/en/download/index.html
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor Stenger
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Posts: 13764 (05/02/09 20:33:57) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
Thanks. I've uninstalled Norton and hey presto we're ok. Why the firewall suddenly decided it didn't like me I've no idea, but to augment AVG
I'll certainly check those out. Malware probably explains the slowdowns I've been experiencing lately.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 3212 (05/02/09 22:06:10) Arch-Cynic
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Why the hell are you running Norton firewall anyway? You're on XP, right? The built in firewall gives you enough protection as long as you aren't an
idiot.
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor Stenger
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Posts: 13764 (05/02/09 22:44:57) Tooth Fairy Agnostic |
It came installed with it.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double
the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston
Churchill
--- Bible Babble
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Posts: 489 (05/02/09 23:11:52) |
It'll start nagging you for payment after your trial period expires.
Still better to run the programs I mentioned earlier once a week. CCleaner (formerly known as "Crap Cleaner") is available here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ |
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