unexplainable borkage

cashy · Post by **cashy** » September 8th, 2006, 16:57

for some reason my internet seems to be all of a bork. it works, hence me posting, problem being its doing its thing at about 0.5kb/s.
it just kind of happened all of a sudden when i was browsing (trusted site with firefox) a few days ago and hasnt been right since. ive got no virus or spyware or any of that shit running, and im on a linksys router (with the other pc running fine off of it) and ive tried turning off the pc router and modem, ive tried various amounts of kicking, ive tried deleting cookies caches and downloady folders all to no avail. its got me well and truely confused.
the only thing i can link to it, is that i got myself a cheap soundcard (apollo 5.1 thing) and installed it around half an hour before borkage time, but thats been removed uninstalled and put into an airtight box, but still no dice, so i'd be suprised if that was the thing. oh yeah i had to reinstall winamp too, but again i doubt its linked. oh and its xp pro.

anybody got any idea how to fix this? i would gladly drop my pants for an answer

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 8th, 2006, 17:01

tried using IE?

any weird processes eating stuff?

otherwise, try a system restore point,

or, if it's looking really fucked, you can try start - run- sfc /scannow (needs your windows cd in) restores your windows files to the originals

Post by **fabyak** » September 8th, 2006, 17:02

Are you uplaoding anything? As that can utterly fuck your connection *speaks with experience of having to share with someone who uploaded a lot*

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » September 8th, 2006, 17:30

has your ISP capped you because you've gone over a set dl/ul limit?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 8th, 2006, 17:34

afaik he's ntl/telewest, who are uncapped.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 8th, 2006, 21:58

If the other PC's okay, it must be a local problem on the PC, not anything doing a down/upload either on that PC or the other one, or ISP issues.

Assuming non-internety stuff runs at normal speed maybe a firewall or net monitor-type program has upgraded itself into a messed up state or is fighting with something else over control of your connection.

How is communciation with the other PC, remote desktop, etc? It could be your ethernet card, but it's unlikely - more likely some bit of software.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 8th, 2006, 22:18

I had a similar problem recently and it was because I'd switched on the web traffic monitoring in my anti-virus scanner.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » September 10th, 2006, 19:11

FatherJack wrote:It could be your ethernet card

is the correct answer. scary thing is, it was an onboard one. eep