giraff36
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Venice Beach LA
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Post by giraff36 on Feb 12, 2009 22:10:03 GMT
even google is taking ages to load, just ran malwarebytes, ok, pc -pitstop tells me my speed is just under 2mb and ping 33ms. high contention ratio? cant understand it
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Post by moralterror on Feb 17, 2009 12:16:37 GMT
bit more info please, what OS, internet browser and anti-virus do you use?
What type of connection are you using? If wireless, does plugging in the cable make any difference?
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giraff36
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Venice Beach LA
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Post by giraff36 on Feb 17, 2009 12:54:34 GMT
xp and explorer with aol avg paid for and zone alarm firewall, must have been aol as service is fine now. but what was weird was pc pitstop was aying my connection was fine , and was on specific london server test. yet when i clicked google was like treacle
thanks for replying
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Post by computing50yrs on Feb 17, 2009 18:08:05 GMT
Beware that AOL sometimes leaves a process running named Waol.exe which takes up most of your computing power, so slows everything down. If you look in task manager and see that process just hilite it in the list and close it.
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giraff36
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Post by giraff36 on Feb 17, 2009 18:47:57 GMT
thanks will do,i can safely turn it off then?
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Post by computing50yrs on Feb 18, 2009 8:50:59 GMT
I only use AOL for mail so I usually check after closing it to see if WAOL.EXE running and stop it
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