Why is everything so slowwwww?

[Sal_gal]

O/S: Vista
Ram:
HD: 320Gig
AMD Athlon 2.8Ghz
Physical Mem: 2.0GB

My internet connection is molasses and seems to be getting slower. Is it the service (ATT DSL)? Is the Oper/Syst, Vista? What could be causing the internet to slow to a crawl and is there anything to be done? Doesn't matter what browser I use. I use tab navigation and it takes forevah! to go from one tab to another; just connecting to an internet site is laborous.

[Welshjim]

Sal_gal--You have not told us what your browser is. If IE
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ection-so-slow
You can test your internet download speed here
http://www.dslreports.com/stest

And here is something I wrote some time ago which may help

I offer several other suggestions since they often can contribute to a slow PC.
1) Have you scanned the PC for viruses, spyware, etc.? (Be sure to use programs with updated reference definition files.) Delete whatever these programs recommend. And if you did find such malware, you should also probably install and run HiJackThis. It may find bits and pieces which were left behind
http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-...-10227353.html
2) Disk Cleanup. There are several ways to reach it. One is Start|All Programs|Accessories|System Tools|DiskCleanUp. That will start a scan of the PC to tell you what files might be deleted or compressed. (The scan takes a while.) I would certainly delete Temporary Internet Files, Temp files, Downloaded Program Files and probably Compress Old Files. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312 for details.
3) Then I would run ErrorChecking. (left click on MyComputer||right click on C:\ drive icon (assuming that is your hard drive)|Tools|Error Checking. Check the box "Automatically fix file system errors". Click Start (within the error checking window). You will be told to reboot. Do so. Error checking will then run as part of the reboot. It can take a while.
4) Start|Run|type MSCONFIG|OK|Startup tab. WinXP actually needs very few thirdparty programs (the ones you see in msconfig) to run at start. Antivirus, Firewall, Antispyware, programs associated with wireless connections such as mouse, network, etc. would be among the few. Uncheck the box to the left of any program you feel you do not need at startup. Click Apply. This site will help you make decisions what you do and do not need http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
5) Run Disk Defragmenter. ((left click on MyComputer||right click on C:\ drive icon (again assuming that is your hard drive)|Tools|Disk Defragmenter|Defrag Now click Analyze) Unless the analysis shows defragmentation is not needed, proceed to run Defragment. That also takes a while.

6) Disabling Services. This could be dangerous unless you know what you are doing. The main reason is that some Services depend on others, and some others may depend on it. Unless you have studied these dependencies, you may delete something needed to run what would seem to be unrelated. (You can check Dependencies by right clicking on the name of a Service|Properties|Dependency tab.) See this reference
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
The Elder Greek used to be very aggressive about disabling services, but you can see from the paragraph in red at the top, he has changed his mind now.

There are many other programs that start at boot, and more info can be provided whether they should or should not be allowed to start. But the ones that usually cause problems have been covered above.

[Broni]

What browser do you use?
Did you try different browser?
What's your ISP advertised speed?
What are your results from here: http://www.speedtest.net/

[Sal_gal]

Chrome
IE
Seamonkey

They're all slow rolling....

[Broni]

What about my other questions?

[Sal_gal]

I went to dslreports/test and here are the results:
Download speed =8297 kbs/s
upload 244kbs

I don't know what that means, but it seems to be a good speed; right?
So why is everything so slow?
In IE, there's a phishing on/off tab and wonder if that's why it slows down the connection to sites?

[Sal_gal]

What browser do you use?
Did you try different browser?
What's your ISP advertised speed?
What are your results from here: http://www.speedtest.net/

Results from speed test: download, 1.32 mbps; upload .032 mbps.
Results are less than average.
Advertised DSL/Basic is 768 kps.
(DSL Express is up to 1.5 mps)

Is this why the connection takes forevah!!!!

[Broni]

Well, your speed looks fine.
Still, did you try another browser, like Firefox, to see, if it makes any difference?

[Sal_gal]

Seamonkey is like FF.

[Broni]

...and SeaMonkey is as slow as IE?

[frebo]

broni, while you are looking do these speeds look right

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[Broni]

frebo
I don't know, what you pay for, but the download speed looks very nice. Upload speed is little bit low.