Real internet slowdowns VPC-Z?

Hi guys,

New issue

I've noticed a few times now, and it's becoming more frequent, that all of a sudden my internet goes EXTREMELY slow on the VPC-Z. Like crawlingly slow. Sometimes it comes back itself, other times I have to turn the wireless switch off and back on again to resolve it.

At the same time my main PC which uses the same router and connection is running fine.

I have tried changing the internet settings to a fixed 192.168.1.9 address and also using DHCP as normal, but neither resolved it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks...

 

When you say slow, is it the download itself that's slow, or the period between the time you click the link to the time the download actually begins, that's long?

 

I had the same problem with my F-11. Wish I could tell you I figured out the problem. With the lid closed it slowed to a crawl after an hour (hooked up to an external monitor). With the lid up it ran fine. Drove me crazy. So I took it to the office, hooked it up to the same make monitor and it runs fine all day long until it goes to sleep..then upon waking its slows again until a reboot. I don't know if its a power supply problem or what. What I've discovered though is that even though the laptop may say its receiving/delivering 300mbps, my Comcast internet at home is 1/4 as strong as my Comcast internet at the office. Don't know if this plays into it at all.

 

Hi guys. Thanks for the reply. Mine doesn't sound as serious as yours Glashub, I'm hoping mine is perhaps just a driver issue.

TofuTurkey, at the times I'm not downloading, but the websites do eventually load. It just takes FOREVER (like worse than dialup!). I'm really not sure what the cause of it is

 

You're not using VPN, are you? Do all websites have slow download speeds, or only specific ones?

There are people who have issues with the driver, I'm using 13.1.1.1, though I have the 6300, not 6200. Maybe downgrading the driver might work...

 

Compared to my old white Macbook, the Vaio Z noticeably loads web pages slower. For example, using both recent versions of Firefox and loading the same exact page on both laptops, the Z loads it about 3 to 5 seconds slower.

Sorry I couldn't really contribute a solution, but I too have noticed the internet on the Z to be slower than other laptops. However, it doesn't get exponentially worse on mine.

I have stock drivers for everything btw.

 

Does your wireless card (intel/atheros/broadcom) have a setting through the device manager for a power savings option? I've found that completely disabling power savings will help with MANY different odd network problems.

 

You can also try to downgrade your driver... Some of us were having more serious problems and that worked.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/480369-vpcz1-wireless-connectivity-issues.html