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    Some websites taking long time to load in browsers! Fast downloads though?? (Opera's fine)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by WhySoSerious, Jun 10, 2010.

  1. WhySoSerious

    WhySoSerious Notebook Consultant

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    For some reason in the past 4 days, lots of websites are loading really slow. Especially some forums (this one loads fine) but others like TheStudentRoom and a lot other sites take a really long time to load like MySpace profiles.

    It does this in Chrome, Safari and Firefox But it works fine in Opera and loads fast. I have about 1.5 mbps when i'm downloading though, it's really fast. I would use Opera as deafult, but I really don't like it.

    I don't know why it does this but it's really annoying. I've uninstalled FF and installed it again and it still doesn't go any faster. I've cleared all my history and cookies with CCleaner and cleared the registry and ran SpyBot and still it doesn't load any faster.

    I don't know why it does this. One night, my ISP was down and I connected to my iPhone and used it's internet untill my ISP was back up and after this, it just started going really slow. Does anyone know? it's really annoying.

    Thanks.
     
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    possible your isp dns server

    consider temporarily switching to opendns to see if it improves

    OpenDNS > Use OpenDNS
     
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    WhySoSerious Notebook Consultant

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    EDIT: FIXED! (It was something to do with Sky Player. I uninstalled it. Thanks.
     
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