[pacer125]

i have a wireless connection (tiscali) My Daughters laptop connects to the internet but pages e.g google, take ages to load, i can be on my laptop at the same time but everything is ok on mine i can go on google, she has this problem even if she is on the internet on her own even if she is on ethernet. Can you help?

She is running windows vista
i.e 7

[pacer125]

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[Kaworito]

BUMP I'm having the exact same problem. This is the only place where I've read this proble, and it's pretty recent from what I read.
My web browser won't work, vista detects the connection (wireless and ethernet) but just won't browse... only msn works...

I know the connection is working because the other computers in my house work correctly.
Any thoughts?

[pacer125]

yes kawarto, exactly the same, my daughters laptop will only work on msn, but i can surf the web no problem. sometimes her laptop is ok , others it just wont surf very confused.

[81lly]

The problem could be the wireless cards in the laptops mentioned. Try running the ethernet cable from the modem directly into the laptop and see what happens.

[pacer125]

yes tried that 81lly its still the same, thanks for your input. any help appreciated.

[81lly]

pacer....the ethernet card may be malfunctioning. I'd have a pc tech take a look at it.

Kaworito....reinstall IE and everything should be fine.

[Kaworito]

Thanks for replying, 81lly...
Actually I dont think my problem has to do with IE, since my connection isn't working in IE NOR Firefox.
And I'm sure I'm not having a hardware problem, since I'm surfing the web normally in Ubuntu in my computer :S

This sucks.

[Kaworito]

Ok, got news. I started windows in safe mode with networking and guess what? Internet WORKS there... :S:S I'm even more confused now, I thought it was a vista problem but now I know it is another application what is causing the problem...
The thing is that I havent installed any new applications recently, so this is becoming more and more confusing. Any thoughts?

[pacer125]

I tried this yesterday shutdown my daughters laptop, switched router off and left for 15 mins, then put both back on, she was able to surf ok then, i dont think this is a soluthion, because it will happen again.

[dannii125]

hi, yes this is my laptop we're talking about.. it's really slow when i go on google sometimes

but....

i think it's fixed!!

beccause i haven't had this problem for ages x